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Re: Giveaway Alert! We Are Giving Away a Fire TV Stick 4K, $100 Netflix Gift Card, & Fire TV Recast DVR

Andrew Shell — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:26:10 -0000

My daughter likes watching Nick Jr on Pluto.

Re: English howto

Andrew Shell — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:09:14 -0000

Looks good to me! https://github.com/andrewsh...

Re: 15 Perfect Live Action Castings of Cartoon Characters

Andrew Shell — Sat, 27 May 2017 19:05:19 -0000

Ron Perlman as Hellboy

Re: How to Publish a Book in 2019: Self-Publishing Tips From a Bestseller

Andrew Shell — Wed, 17 May 2017 13:10:22 -0000

Great tips. Especially about formatting your ebook. I didn't know about the service Liber Writer.

Re: Are you ready to share your OPML?

Andrew Shell — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 04:42:37 -0000

It's not mentioned specifically on the site but it's looking for OPML subscription lists which is a specific type of OPML file used by feed readers. http://dev.opml.org/spec2.h...

Re: Are you ready to share your OPML?

Andrew Shell — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:29:00 -0000

I uploaded two OPML files. It just shows the last one I uploaded so I'm not sure if everything worked. Hopefully you get lots of good info :-)

Re: Is Rice Healthy For Me? Does White vs Brown Rice Matter?

Andrew Shell — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:22:07 -0000

I was thinking the same thing. There is a whole article about that on the Bulletproof Exec blog. Dave also recommends cooking it with coconut oil to help convert the digestible starch to resistant starch.

https://www.bulletproofexec...

Re: Let's make nw.js easy to start up

Andrew Shell — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:11:24 -0000

I went ahead and built this. I posted about it here: http://blog.andrewshell.org...

Re: Action Challenge! Name your audience | 30x500

Andrew Shell — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:09:33 -0000

I'm going to start with PHP Developers although I hope to niche it down after doing Safari.

Re: What's a good router?

Andrew Shell — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:09:05 -0000

I've had good luck with the apple routers. I have an express and an extreme in different parts of the house.

Re: Braintrust: Desktop for Ubuntu?

Andrew Shell — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:34:26 -0000

That's a very good question. I've only installed it locally, either on a laptop or in virtualbox. For that I just download the install image from http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ and following the same instructions as you would have for normal Ubuntu. I can walk you through that.

However if you want to install it on a remote server like you had with the old EC2 for Poets, I'm actually not sure how to do that. That would be more complicated because you'd have to try installing it (and something like VNC) to be able to view the desktop.

Here is an example http://xmodulo.com/how-to-s... only you'd use xubuntu-desktop instead of ubuntu-desktop with apt-get.

Re: Braintrust: Desktop for Ubuntu?

Andrew Shell — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:09:50 -0000

I love xubuntu. Xfce (what's used in xubuntu) is lightweight like lubuntu but seems to work better. I found lubuntu had some weird ui glitches, although it may be better now.

Re: Low-Carb…Carbs? Hack Your Rice With Coconut Oil + Recipe

Andrew Shell — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:09:51 -0000

Does this also work if you use a rice cooker?

Re: Episode 17: The one where The Force Awakens · That Podcast with Beau and Dave

Andrew Shell — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:30:45 -0000

The Clone Wars is still canon. Only the expanded universe (EU) content after Return of the Jedi is no longer canon, it's been rebranded "Legends". http://starwars.wikia.com/w...

Re: Dave Winer: Andrew wants a home page

Andrew Shell — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:20:40 -0000

That's part of the reason I don't typically put the full content on the homepage or on archive pages. I'm big on semantic markup and microformats as well, so on the homepage the markup describes the snippet as a description of the article and the title link has a class of p-url which means that the link is a permalink.

This is also why on my homepage I have the name of my blog in h1 tags but on other pages I reserve the h1 tags for the post title.

I like to think of my homepage as an index of my posts. Not a place to read content.

Re: Dave Winer: Andrew wants a home page

Andrew Shell — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:31:16 -0000

Links generated "server side" are mostly a personal preference these days. Historically it was for improved SEO because search engines crawling your site did not execute javascript. These days most of the big search engines do run javascript, but I still feel better knowing that my site could be crawled without it.

As for why I'm just generating links, it's primarily because this is a proof of concept. All the content is available to the template, so it's easy to add the full posts if that's what you prefer. I personally prefer more of a twitter approach so on my personal website I just show titles and a small snippet of the content. http://blog.andrewshell.org/

Re: Dave Winer: Andrew wants a home page

Andrew Shell — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:37:54 -0000

That's a great start Dave. The two issues I have are 1. I'd like the links to be rendered in the html and not via client side js and 2. I'd like it a part of the site generated by myword.

Now, I'm not one to complain without offering my own solution. :-)

Here is my gist with the code I used to hook into the publish cycle and save the homepage anytime a essay is published.

https://gist.github.com/and...

You'll need to include handlebars and homepage.js in your index.html then call bootstrapHomepage(); via startupCode in config.json

Obviously a full implementation would leverage the configured templates and/or allow you to define your own homepage templates. This was more of a proof of concept.

My functioning homepage is here: http://public.geekity.com/u...

Re: Customize Your River4 Home Page to Send Links to Instapaper

Andrew Shell — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:07:33 -0000

That's awesome! Thanks for posting this. I had previously included the RT links but I never used them and it looks like Dave has stopped including them so I removed them from my latest river template. This would be cool though. I bet we could do the same sort of thing with readability.

Re: An icon that means Publish

Andrew Shell — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:46:26 -0000

Now that's... *Font* Awesome!

Re: An icon that means Publish

Andrew Shell — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:33:12 -0000

I don't think there is a newspaper icon in font awesome, is there?

Re: An icon that means Publish

Andrew Shell — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:03:11 -0000

I also like the fa-cloud-upload but I also like the paper airplane icons.

Re: Movies for me at 20

Andrew Shell — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:49:02 -0000

I love Blade Runner. I have the 4-disc collectors edition with all the different cuts. :-)

Re: Movies for me at 20

Andrew Shell — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:32:16 -0000

When Harry met Sally

Re: Private: Any Suggestions for the Steam Summer Sale?

Andrew Shell — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:00:11 -0000

I'd go with Broken Age and/or Stacking. Both great games from Double Fine. Clever adventure games.

Re: Indieweb and RSS

Andrew Shell — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:44:46 -0000

I don't know how anyone can take that feed page seriously. I'm not aware of any feed readers that support subscribing to an HTML micro-formatted homepage. Although I guess I haven't checked lately.