Like the heading says, this is my dumping ground for general ramblings about nerdy bits and pieces I've found both at work and home that might be useful to someone else, or not...Tag Archives for web
Embedding Tweets
Twitter’s update comes with a handy new feature: embedding tweets, and even better, with shortcodes, but it does come with a fairly big caveat. From the docs: WordPress.com and WordPress VIP blogs have this functionality immediately, and Jetpack users will … Continue reading
ASync Shell Commands from Tornado
I’ve been using Tornado at work for a bunch of web interface stuff and found I needed to call shell commands that might block for a while. To avoid blocking Tornado itself, I looked around the web for a while trying … Continue reading
WordPress Child Themes
The site you’re looking at is styled with a child theme. WordPress introduced child themes in version 2.7 and they’re great. It means that you can cleanly modify an existing theme, and if the original writer publishes an update, your … Continue reading
Too Many Things To Try
Having a really short attention span and a wide range of interests makes for lots and lots of things to try. Now I just need to figure out what to do with some of these: processing and toxiclibs for visualisation … Continue reading