On Friday I came across this post asking for people to try and do interesting things with the recently published 11 year data dump of BoingBoing blog posts. For a long time I’ve been itching to try and use the ruby classifier gem for something cool and I figured that this was my chance. I decided to create a quick [...]

Over on Hacker News, user godDLL created a really nice custom style sheet for the site. Called Comfy-Helvetica, the stylesheet makes the Hacker News site look a little cleaner and more readable (at least to me) – comparison screenshot below: godDLL published the user stylesheet as for Safari, but I’ve since moved onto Chrome and hadn’t previously had the desire [...]

Techcrunch had an article up today about the alpha release of Google Translate – a “Conversation Mode” speech to text to speaking translator that they hope will be sufficient to help people buy black or brown shoes. Seriously, black and brown shoes are the heart of their demo. What’s most interesting to me is that Google seems to be moving [...]

For a soon to be announced project I needed to setup a main website/cms with WordPress and then within that same domain also setup a Rails application. This is trickier than it sounds as WordPress on Nginx has some very specific setup requirements in order for pretty URLs to work. There were also lots of tutorials online about how to [...]