April 2008
41 posts
Switching.
I’m switching. No, not to a Mac (already did that sometime in early 2000). I’m switching from CodeIgniter to Kohana. Why? A few reasons, really. Kohana was branched from CI and refactored to be pure PHP 5 OOP; no legacy PHP 4 code to be found. It also features a less restrictive input and routing system (to wit: mixing paths and query strings really is okay!) and a very good ORM layer...
Now this is love. →
Favorite part: “The dentist left on his own, one eye swollen shut, wearing tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.”
Weight loss.
I am proud to say that since beginning my diet and exercise regimen last Monday, I have lost four pounds and I feel fantastic.
There is an untruth somewhere within this post.
My family has gone off the deep end.
I am working on something really cool that I’ll probably never release to the public.
I’m going to be up for a while on account of items 1 and 2.
I am listening to die Zauberflöte, K. 620; Overture.
One of these things is false.
"The Köchel-Verzeichnis is a complete,... →
I had been wondering what K. stood for in many (all?) of the names of Mozart’s compositions. Lo and behold!
List domains you own using PHP
I wrote a tiny script today to extract a list of domains that I own simply by pasting in a blob of text copied from my Dreamhost control panel; I presume it will probably work with any other glob of text with some domain names in it. It (obviously) doesn’t find anything other than com, net and org TLDs, because that’s all I ever register. Use at your own risk.
$raw = <<<STR ...
Commercial experimentation is apparently the new advertising.
(found here: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/04/twitter-for-japan.html)
We launched the new BuzzFeed redesign tonight. →
This is beautiful. Jonah, Chris, and team have done an especially excellent job on the redesign. Well done.
chrisjohanesen:
This is just the beginning.
Picturing The Death Of A Newspaper →
I especially like the shot of the Prozac bottle.
(via Gawker)
Har har. →
“Overheard: “Honestly, it’s going to be all about contacting all the...”
– One of the suits in the office next to mine
Remember these? →
This is my favorite Subway Crush post to date. →
So genius, it's beautiful. Also, the second time... →
SimplePie is by far the easiest and most robust... →
On passionless pre-professionals. →
An excellent post all around.
Also available: 2.4ghz 24" iMac
Anyone interested? It’s almost brand-new and has 4gb RAM. Email me at kyle.bragger AT gmail.com — I’m trying to consolidate down to one system (coincidentally, I also have about a year-old black MacBook with 2gb RAM [the system is a 2.16ghz Core 2 Duo]).
Apartment for rent!
My current apartment is going to be up for rent in a month or two. I live in 11216, right around the corner from the A/C at the Kingston Ave. station. Rent will probably be around eleven to twelve-hundred for a pretty gorgeous two-floor space with a large, sunny bedroom, as well as a separate office room with french doors and a walk-in closet, spacious, private backyard, as well as a pretty good...
WatchJust wait until he gets to the chords.
Dear Media Temple Support:
You are (worthless).
Sincerely,
Kyle
This is my new favorite web app. It's probably Web... →
It’s incredibly disappointing whenever I stumble across a new font only a week or two before the entire internet starts talking it up and it ends up used in everything.
I am ill.
This is incredible; very clever. →
So, what exactly is better about git? This surely... →
My girlfriend Brooke and I are wrapping up a new site for her DIY label, Fame+frippery. Do check it out.
“Kyle, welcome to the PHP Classes site. Greetings to United States!”
– http://www.phpclasses.org/
I love that each coin composes one section of the... →
New site.
I just wrapped up a basic new design for kylewritescode.com — I started by sketching it out on the train to Philly, whipped up a PSD, built XHTML and CSS, and only a few short hours later I pushed it live. Enjoy!
UPDATE: I got too lazy to design a nice way to display my posts, so I took the whole thing down for now.
caro:
I’m pretty sure that after today it will be completely unacceptably gauche to ever rickroll anybody ever again.
Yes. Today will be forever known as The Day That Killed The Rickroll. I propose that the new Rickroll be this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8 Yes, that’s right. Thank *you* Stacy Hedger. You’re going to single-handedly save the internet.
Viral Video Politician: Example of Ad Unit →
rickyv:
We launched a new type of sponsorship on CH today. An advertiser gets a 3 second title card prior to the video and a 15 second post-roll for anybody who wants to stick around after the video and watch it. Also, there’s branding on the whole page. The first sponsor is AirTran. I think what you see here typifies the compromise advertisers and web users will soon reach – creative that is...
caro:
Happy birthday @innonate! He just hit the big 3-0!
AH! I wonder if he minds about the eight-year difference between us…
I hate you.
Some dudes at Angelsoft messing with our switch (or something—I don’t know what hardware is upstairs) to point everything at google.com to Lycos was not cool. Perhaps you have time to kill, but I need to get actual work done.
URL as UI. A must read. →