Asides

  • Dropplets

    I’ve been playing with Jason Schuller‘s Dropplets simple blogging platform. You can see what I’ve done and read all about it on chrisreynolds.io.

  • Unbelievable: The IDF Has Gamified Its War Blog

    This was pretty much my reaction when I saw the Israeli Defense Force’s blog last night. Unbelievable: The IDF Has Gamified Its War Blog.

  • Timed Screenshot Alfred Extension

    I was shocked — SHOCKED, I tell you!!! — to learn today that Skitch (the once-amazing screen-capture and image sharing app that is almost worth ditching Windows for Mac just to be able to use) no longer lets you do timed screenshots. What??? I was so upset, I had to do some digging and learned…

  • Use Alfred to set up a WordPress theme based on _s and Twitter Bootstrap

    I said a long time ago that I would never use another theme framework now that I have Museum Core.  Well, unfortunately for me, WordCamp SLC — particularly the presentations of Jake Spurlock, George Ortiz and Patrick Cox, as well as working on the theme which was based on _s — changed my mind on…

  • Close to 8,000 words on my story-thing…when I hit 30k or so, I’ll stop calling it a “thing”…

  • overheard on Twitter…

    I'm 38, getting fatter and uglier. I think it's time to go back to Goth. — Indignation Fatigue (@InfiniteChicken) August 4, 2012

  • Slow progress

    A while ago I wrote about slowing down.  What could be slower than a few days camping in the desert?  No internet, the phones died our second night there, nothing to actively distract or divert.  In my last post, I wrote that I hoped the process of slowing down my internet (and media) consumption would…