Here’s something I worked on for a few hours just to amuse myself. I’d develop it further, but I can’t see how this has any sort of practical use (also note the caveats at the top of the script). So here it is: a web page desaturator. Takes all colors in linked stylesheets and turns them into grayscale versions. Here’s a demo using a page from the Prototype site. Firefox only.
March, 2007
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Mar25
If you have a reputation for being a Machiavellian, you aren’t one. That was Machiavelli’s view, at least. The key to all successful power-mongers, he argued, is the appearance of innocence, and a reputation for honesty and benevolence. Underneath, of course, you’re stitching the system up. So it doesn’t take a genius to realise that if Niccolo were around today he would laugh heartily at the idea that Karl Rove is a master of the art of ruthless politics.
Mar20
Junior! The Wendy’s Guy. During my freshman year at UT, I went to this Wendy’s far more often than the Surgeon General would have recommended. Junior is one of my strongest memories of living on the UT campus.
Mar12
Wow. We got our asses kicked at Bryan’s bowling tournament.
Mar11
WTF?
Zefrank, bewildered by the shirtless rapping dude. Taken last night at Molotov.
If you’re like me and your MacBook Pro keeps waking up inside your laptop bag (draining your precious battery life), you can force it into “safe sleep” (hibernation) instead by running sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1 from the terminal. It takes a bit longer to go to sleep, but it also prevents these accidental awakenings, since you have to hold down the power key for a second or two to wake it up.
Mar10
Enjoyed the panel on ARGs. I really need to put away my laptop during panels and make myself listen to the discussion.
Mar9
Prototype 1.5.1, release candidate 1. This one contains my complete $$ overhaul, so if you query by CSS selector at all then you need to download this right now. Once 1.5.1 gets a final release (and when I’m once again sober) I’ll write a lot more about this.
SXSW Interactive starts tomorrow. Truthfully, I have been so busy this last week that I don’t even know which panels I’m going to. But if you’re a fan of JavaScript, you should come see Aaron Gustafson and I talk about block scope, iterator/generators, and other fun stuff that you’ll be able to use someday. (If you’re not a fan of JavaScript, attend something else. You wouldn’t like our panel at all.) And if you see me there, be sure to introduce yourself!
Mar8
Fortunately, I have a place for my wildly inaccurate and unreasonable screeds. It’s called a “weblog,” or, for short, my “eblo.”
