Tim's Daft Junk

lookatthisfrakkinggeekster: New clip from The Walking Dead!

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:10:34 -0500

lookatthisfrakkinggeekster:

New clip from The Walking Dead!

Gotta love Improv Everywhere!

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:55:14 -0500

Gotta love Improv Everywhere!

fuckyeahlost: A door in Lubbock TX. [andrewcook]

Mon, 17 May 2010 18:47:20 -0500

fuckyeahlost:

A door in Lubbock TX.

[andrewcook]

fleetingftw: pigtailsandcombatboots: c-peterson: boba-fettish...

Sat, 15 May 2010 17:17:09 -0500

fleetingftw:

pigtailsandcombatboots:

c-peterson:

boba-fettish:

justinrampage:

Need some tasty out of this world rum to throw down your trap? Admiral Ackbar has you covered! Admiral Akbar’s Olde Timey Rhum is made with the finest ingredients in all of Mon Calimari and aged to perfection, according to Elan Trinidad.

Admiral Akbar’s Rhum by Elan Trinidad/theory-of-everything (deviantART) (Twitter)

Our livers can’t repel alcohol of that magnitude!

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:16:13 -0500

“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”

- Raymond Hull

At the monthly doctor’s appointment for checking up on the...

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:43:00 -0500

At the monthly doctor’s appointment for checking up on the baby, I used my iPhone to record the baby’s heartbeat as the nurse checked with the fetal heart-rate monitor. Here’s the result. I apologize for the low quality. I tried to clean up a bit of the noise but you can still hear the heartbeat pretty clear. This is my kid’s heart going at 156 BPM, 16 weeks into the pregnancy.

Love song for Richard Alpert (from LOST). This is freaking...

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:44:40 -0500

Love song for Richard Alpert (from LOST). This is freaking hilarious!

Lost done “Buffy” style. EPIC!

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:44:07 -0500

Lost done “Buffy” style. EPIC!

"The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours."

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:09:59 -0500

“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.”

- T. S. Eliot, from “Gerontion”

atmos: i’m a lumberjaph » Blog Archive » Github...

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:02:14 -0500

atmos:

i’m a lumberjaph » Blog Archive » Github explorer

New LCD Soundsystem single

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:00:10 -0500

New LCD Soundsystem single

Current Status: The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex (live)

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:19:25 -0500

Current Status: The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex (live)

Post to Tumblr from Textmate

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:28:52 -0500

I am a big fan of TextMate and use it as a general text editor, for Ruby development, and whatever else I can shove into its interface. And that now includes blogging. Surely there are many ways to achieve the nirvana of posting to Tumblr from TextMate but I did not find one readily available with a quick Google search, so decided to set out and come up with my own solution. It was remarkably simple.

First off, I downloaded the tumblr-rb gem created by Mark Wunsch. That installs a tumblr executable to your path:

gem install tumblr-rb

Then I created a dotfile that contains my tumblr credentials and placed it in my home directory:

$ cat ~/.tumblrlogin
email: notmyreal@address
password: mysecretpassword

With that setup, you can pass a file or a URL to the tumblr command to post to tumblr, or you can even shove data to it from STDIN. It’s flexible like that.

The cool thing is that you can author your blog post in Markdown and include some front-loaded YAML to set up things such as a title, tags, slugs, and so on.

With that in mind, I fired up ye olde Bundles -> Bundle Editor -> Edit Commands and chose the Markdown bundle and added a new command that looks like this:

So it looks like this:

Command: tumblr --credentials ~/.tumblrlogin
Input: Entire Document
Output: Create New Document
Activation: Key Equivalent (Whatever keystroke you want)

Now, I can open a new Markdown document, edit it, and hit my keystroke to have it automatically post to Tumblr! How cool is that? Here’s a very meta example of what my Markdown document looks like:

Now go have fun posting to Tumblr from TextMate!

TNT - More Rack and Sinatra Goodness

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:53:07 -0500

Another Tuesday is upon us, and that means more Tuesday Night Tech! I had some great feedback with last week’s Post on MongoDB UI Options so keep the suggestions coming. I’ll try to keep that list updated as long as there is interest. Although I leave it as an exercise to a more ambitious MongoDB fanboy to create a real directory for cool tools like this.

This week I want to shift back to looking at Rack, Sinatra, and a nifty tool for Ruby Development that you might find useful.

Sinatra: The big 1.0!

The big news this week is that the awesome web DSL/framework Sinatra hit the big version 1.0! It’s time to do the happy dance! What’s new? Well, for one it’s using something I’ve mentioned before, Tilt. It also marks the maturation of an awesome extension API and some serious performance improvements. See the official changelog for more information. Way to go Sinatra team!

Throttle those HTTP Requests

Whether you have an API you don’t want pounded, or just want to limit traffic from over-eager refreshers, the Rack middleware Rack::Throttle makes it stupid simple to add logic for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests to Rack-based applications. This means it works with Sinatra, Rails 3, or whatever you use that supports Rack. Check out how easy it is to use:

# Pretend this is a config.ru file
require 'rack/throttle'
use Rack::Throttle::Hourly, :max => 100  # 100 reqs/hour
run MyAwesome::SinatraApp

Ruby Code Completion for vim and emacs

Wow. I never thought I’d user or even need this. As a Ruby guy using TextMate daily, I only fire up vim mainly when dealing with remote stuff like when I’m working. But a project called RSense works and does a reasonable job of autocomplete for your ruby code. Here’s an example of me typing ^X^U in vi after typing a string, a period, and the letter “u”:

It isn’t very easy to get running, though. You download the source and set up a dotfile with your ruby load path and gem path (hint: use $:.join(‘:’) and Rubygem’s Gem.path methods). Then you copy the plugin over to your ~/.vim/plugin/ directory, edit your ~/.vimrc, and then you’re set. I didn’t even look at the emacs (*shudder*) config, so I have no idea how involved that is. YMMV, but it is a pretty useful plugin if you use vim or emacs.

Awesome melody of TV themes. Very well done!

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:34:26 -0500

Awesome melody of TV themes. Very well done!

Tuesday Night Tech - MongoDB UI Edition

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:55:00 -0500

This week I’m focusing on UI options for administering MongoDB. Sure, you could use the javascript command shell “mongo” from the command line, but a lot of individuals out there are churning out viable options for administering the popular document-oriented database. All of these tools are relatively easy to get running, so I encourage you to play with them to see which one you like the best. Perhaps you might even be encouraged to lend a hand to help mature these projects?

Myngo

Myngo is a jQuery frontend written in Python using Tornado. It’s relatively attractive and reminds me a lot of Futon. If Python is your thing, check this out.

Mongo3

Mongo3 is a beautiful interface focused on managing clusters, written in Ruby using the Sinatra framework. It’s an easy gem install if you have Ruby ready to go.

futon4mongo

futon4mongo is a port of the popular CouchDB utility Futon. Its goal seems to be to match it feature for feature. It is written in Ruby using Sinatra, and was the first web UI I explored for MongoDB. It’s reasonably stable and works for a basic view into your data quite nicely.

phpMoAdmin

phpMoAdmin is a themeable PHP administration tool in a single 90kb file (hrm) with zero configuration. Ok, I have to admit, the prospect of looking at or even trying to contribute to the code for this project REALLY scares me, but you have to admire the ease of dropping a single PHP file in and starting to use the web to administer MongoDB. Give it a shot if PHP is your thing.

Opricot

Opricot is an Apache+PHP tool for administering MongoDB. It looks a little easier to use and more feature-filled than phpMoAdmin at this time.

MongoHub

I don’t know much about this product, but MongoHub is a native OS X GUI for MongoDB. It’s very fresh so it isn’t very feature-filled yet, but you can create multiple connections, browse collections, and run queries. It looks to be the start of a potentially very cool tool for OS X.

Do you know of any other UI tools for MongoDB I may have missed? If so, let me know in the comments!

Best use of Chat Roulette EVER! This guy is hilarious and good!

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:28:46 -0500

Best use of Chat Roulette EVER! This guy is hilarious and good!

OK Go - WTF? — This is my anthem of the day.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:29:35 -0500

OK Go - WTF? — This is my anthem of the day.

All lyrics to songs should be presented like this.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:17:47 -0500

All lyrics to songs should be presented like this.

The kids’ reactions are hilarious.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:05:52 -0500

The kids’ reactions are hilarious.