Yet Another Breakout Clone

October 4th, 2010

I’m not a game developer, but, as most programmers do, I’ve always had some interest in the field. The first game that I wrote back in gymnasium was a two-player version of Snake. Written from scratch in Turbo Pascal 7, it featured such innovative design decisions as a completely text- and number-less HUD (I couldn’t […]

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Automatic Updates For Private And Commercial Plugins

September 2nd, 2010

Last updated on June 26, 2015. Since time immemorial, only plugins hosted in the official WordPress.org plugin directory have supported automatic updates. Now, I’ve written a PHP library that you can use to add automatic update capabilities to any plugin. Public, private and commercial plugins alike – all can now enjoy the benefits of automatic […]

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micro-tweet – The Twitter Client That Fits In a Tweet

August 10th, 2010

micro-tweet is an ultra-minimalist Twitter client that fits in a tweet. It can only do two things – display your friends tweets (one at a time) and post new tweets. It’s written in Python and works entirely from the command line. Source Code The source code of micro-tweet is exactly 137 characters, which is short […]

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Pure CSS Perversion

June 16th, 2010

Sometimes it seems that not a month goes by without another “Pure CSS Something” project. Most recently, it was the Pure CSS Twitter “Fail Whale” page that has been making the rounds on Twitter and social news sites for the last few days. Before that, we had the Opera logo made in CSS, and many, […]

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Bookmarklet Combiner

June 2nd, 2010

I love bookmarklets. Over time, I have accumulated a sizable collection of bookmarklets ranging from development tools (yay for ReCSS!) to great little utilities like Readability. Chances are that some of you have, too. I also like to keep my browser window trim and slim, and a crowded bookmark bar is definitely not conducive to […]

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