Category: Geekery

  • Gauge

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcqx06zsds?rel=0]

    I’m really happy that Venus Patrol tipped me off to Gauge [iOS]. Ever since I grabbed it a few days ago, I’ve been playing it kind of a lot. So much so that Super Hexagon is sitting there, getting all jealous.

    What can I say? I’m into the quirky humor, love the distractions that try to thwart your progress and the price (free) is definitely right.

  • Portable Starbucks

    I wish the boring, stucco covered Starbucks they just opened in our neighborhood looked half as nice as this experimental LEED-certified one in Denver. C’est la vie, right?

  • Sentry

    Sentry is a realtime event logging and aggregation platform. It specializes in monitoring errors and extracting all the information needed to do a proper post-mortem without any of the hassle of the standard user feedback loop.

    I saw this and thought “Oh, that’s pretty handy.”

    Then I noticed that someone had thrown together a WordPress plugin

    So, guess what just got promoted to the top of my “fuck with later” pile?

  • Chrome DevTools

    Use Chrome’s Developer Tools a lot? If you do, you’re going to love this laundry list of tricks. [via]

  • Social Login Buttons Suck

    The MailChimp blog’s got a pretty compelling argument against social login buttons. I would say that I could agree more, but I can’t. It’s not possible. [via]

  • xkcd in LaTeX

    I seriously love that the nerds over on Stack Exchange are working out how to do xkcd style graphs in TeX.

    My only question is, now that the info’s out there, who’s working on the WordPress plugin to leverage the LaTeX support built into Jetpack?

  • Persona

    I’ve been playing around with Mozilla’s Persona a bit lately, so I was thrilled to find a WordPress plugin that makes integrating it ridiculously easy.

  • So Simple

    So Simple is an extremely minimal, responsive WordPress theme focused on readability. And it’s just $1.99.

    At that price, I’m tempted to get a license just so I can dick around with it…

  • Han Sparato Per Primo

    Even though we have about 20 prints that need framing and hanging, Sarah got me this badass unofficial Italian Star Wars poster for our anniversary. It’s going to look super tight hanging over the desk in my office, isn’t it?

    Okay. You have no idea what my office looks like. But trust me, it’s going to look great.

    Best. Wife. Ever.

  • Poster

    Normally, I ignore iOS based WordPress post editors, but I was tipped off to Poster while listening to this week’s episode of  Systematic and it actually looks crazy nice. Besides being easy on the eyes, it’s got Dropbox integration, Markdown support, custom fields, post format selection and even slug editing.

    Slug editing! From a 3rd party WordPress client for iOS!

    Hrmph. Maybe I should be getting more excited about the Markdown and Dropbox support. I mean, those things will have more impact on my workflow than slug editing ever will. Still, this is a total steal at $3.99, right?