I realize that posting the Font of the Month on the very last day of the month is cutting it a bit fine. So this month’s font is a bit special. Sans Bullshit Sans, by PixelAmbacht hides bullshit marketing words in your text with a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar. Th …

What, you might wonder, is a logic gate and why, you might further wonder, should I care? Logic gates in their various forms make up a fair amount of the circuitry that enables modern computers to work. Like your phone or your computer. Logic gates work a bit like one of those truth tables you …

Earlier today, a TwitRSS.me user, @pur_wie asked me if there was a way to get follower counts from Twitter.@ciderpunx Thanks for twitRSS.me. It works great in getting tweet texts.Is it possible to get the count,num of followers/followees?— Pur (@pur_wie) June 7, 2014Depending on your …

I recently learned of a new web publishing tool called mailp.in, which lets you publish stories to a custom url by sending email to a particular email address. Quite a nifty idea.The service is a model of minimalist, yet highly functional design. The simplest thing that could possibly work, you …

A seriously cool idea this; making a smartphone out of a Raspberry Pi. A guy called Dave Hunt put together the PiPhone, using a 2.8 inch adafruit TFT touchscreen and a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module. The result is pretty sweet as you can see from the video.Dave did a PiPhone writeup on his sit …

Vimdiff is an amazing tool to work with file differences and it particuarly suitable for use when examining differences between git revisions. There is a command built in to git that is called git-difftool. It allows you to use an external tool to look at your diffs this tip just shows how I like …

I was just talking to my colleague Pete about how useful Google’s Did you mean? feature is as a spell checker. It comes up with much better suggestions than other systems. So here is a quick lunchtime hack that uses the little-known Lynx browser -dump command and some Perl to make a comma …

Since version 23, Firefox has started blocking mixed content — pieces of an HTML page that are delivered over an insecure, unencrypted connection when browsing an SSL-encrypted page. Now this is probably the right thing to do. Most of the time. And there is a subtle little shield thingum …

One of the ways to make yourelf more productive and to save unnecessary typing in the bash shell is to get familiar with navigating your history. There are a number of ways to navigate your bash history beyond simply using the up arrow to get at your last command. This is a quick reference to some o …

tl;dr The Hackers Keyboard app doesn’t play well with the Onda v972 tablet running Android 4.2.2. I made an apk which allows you to scale the key labels bigger so that you can read them. Grab a copy of Hackers Keyboard with improved keyboard label scaling.Last night I upgraded my Onda v972 t …

Twitter recently got rid of the ability to get search results as an RSS as part of their API update of 11 June 2013.

I found those feeds rather useful, so I made a little screen scraper that reimplements the functionality without needing to auth against their API (it just pulls the re …

This is a neat trick. A friend was looking for a convenient way to tweet (or send to statusnet) from Bash, this is a fairly straightforward way to do that.

There are a couple of bits you need before we play with the script. You’ll need cURL installed, many Unices do this by de …

This is hosted on Gitorious now. I thought I would give gitorious a whirl anyhow, so you can find the latest version of feed2diasp over there.

I've just got myself set up on …

A little perl script to send you a daily agenda email from your chandler hub account. Discussed in depth on the page Getting Chandler Hub to send a daily agenda by email. …

This utility was developed for People & Planet's recent migration away from Mercury mailserver to Cyrus IMAP. Given a user name, Pegasus mail di …