I made a fairly large step forward in my tumblelog plugin today — I wrote a WordPress plugin that lets me specify custom key/value pairs from within the content area, which will be extremely useful when I start posting from an external client. It also lets me define specific metadata for certain post types — a quotation has an author and an optional URL, for example — which lets me move more of the markup into post‐type‐specific templates.
Regarding the "shaking" behavior of the OS X login screen when an incorrect password is typed in
- Tom Merritt (moderator)
- (in jest) Couldn’t people misinterpret that and think their monitors are just broken?
- Mark Ligameri (former Longhorn UI guy)
- No, they’re Mac users. They’d blame themselves first.
Tron
Bryan Veloso’s Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza was a hearty success last night. I have sore muscles, some of which I didn’t even know were used for bowling, but ’tis most definitely worth it. At left, Tron celebrates the act of striking pins.
The WaSP panels yesterday afternoon were fantastic. I’m a dork, so take this however you please, but I left the meeting wanting to write specifications for things. Added the DOM Scripting Task Force weblog to my news reader.
Everyone gives out their business card as an artifact documenting the fact that they met you. Eventually all the ones I get will coagulate into a sweaty orb and will be unloaded en masse into a drawer somewhere, but before that happens they’ll be useful for remembering whose feeds I ought to be subscribing to. (Wilson and Steve got added today.) 9rules is nice, but the act of meeting people is a far better content aggregator.
I’m halfway‐listening to the Craig Newmark keynote, halfway‐coding my Ruby/MediaWiki/TextMate pipe dream. It’s not that the interview is boring — far from it — but these sessions have been more abstract than concrete, for the most part, and I need to ground myself every once in a while. Couldn’t SXSW do a handful of coding sessions, organized by language, wherein experts train novices and everyone learns something practical that they didn’t know before?
Visualizing the SXSW backchannel. Be snide in real time! Join us at irc.freenode.net/#sxsw.
First of all, I feel like whenever I meet someone at SXSW whom I’ve heard of, I end up inadvertently reenacting The Chris Farley Show. Secondly: how cool is it that there’s a Wikipedia article for The Chris Farley Show?
I did, in fact, make it to the boozy parts. The web awards were pleasant but bizarre, the after‐party was sweltering but enlightening, and my feet are weary but well‐worn. Pictures to follow whenever I’m not completely exhausted.
If I weren’t freakin’ exhausted, I’d be trying to come up with creative art projects that use all the business cards I’m getting. As it is, I’ll be thrilled if I can make it to the boozy evening parts.