A couple months ago @damon and @dacort I were talking about how useful Rubular (a utility website: one page, does one thing and does it well) was and I told them about my idea to make a “Rubular for strftime formatting codes”. If you’re unfamilar with the strftime function, it’s the piece of software that makes dates and times look [...]

I’ve long been fascinated by QR Codes. I originally wrote about some of their less conventional uses back in 2007 and I was part of the team that put QR Codes on every badge at SXSW 2010. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re a type of square barcode that’s most often used to hold a URL. You scan the [...]

In my last post I recreated a series of Twitter posts between myself and Jeff Atwood about what one of the StackOverflow badges was named. Doing so was tougher than it may have appeared due to the conversation taking place last June (7 months ago). Twitter’s built-in search features: http://search.twitter.com only goes back a couple weeks. Google’s search results return [...]

An interesting aspect of StackOverflow is that they don’t require you to be logged in / registered or identified to the site in any way to ask a question (because early on Joel and Jeff determined that having a constant flow of new questions was vital to the success of the site). However, this policy has some interesting side effects: [...]