December 2009 Archive

To retweet or not to retweet

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24Dec
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Yesterday I launched Hahlo 4.1 and one of the changes was the switch from to old-style ‘RT’ retweets over to the new twitter retweet api. Unfortunately this seems to have upset a few people, not necessarily because I’ve added support for the new api but because I chose not to maintain the old-style RTs as well. This is a tale of why.

Yesterday I launched Hahlo 4.1 and one of the changes was the switch from to old-style ‘RT’ retweets over to the new twitter retweet api. Unfortunately this seems to have upset a few people, not necessarily because I’ve added support for the new api but because I chose not to maintain the old-style RTs as well. This is a tale of why.

To retweet or not to retweet - a tale of good vs. evil

Keep in mind this falls into the category of “people can use twitter however the hell they want”, you’re allowed to disagree, just don’t be a knob about it.

The Hahlo side of the things

Hahlo is about moving forward, not backwards, if I were not interested in keeping up with the new feature additions to twitter (and the api) then Hahlo probably wouldn’t still be in active development. Also maintaining two different methods for retweeting means more work on my side making sure they both continue working, having an ‘RT’ button which performs different functions for different people is not only illogical, but would very quickly become a pain to support. Also, please remember I don’t get paid anything to work on or support Hahlo, I do that because I’m a nice guy.

The twitter side of things

Those who’ve used Hahlo will see that I’ve tried to match the same ‘flow’ as on twitter.com. For example, you click ‘retweet’ and you’re asked to confirm that you’d like to retweet this tweet to your followers. Not everyone likes the new-style retweets, but then not everyone like change. But changes happens, deal with it.

Evan Williams wrote a great post on why retweets work the way that they work on twitter.com, if you haven’t read it I strongly suggest you do.

The “retweets annoy me” side of things

There is a reason I never added retweets to Hahlo prior to version 4, I don’t (or didn’t to be more precise) like them. And then when I did add them, I also added an ‘hide all retweets’ option. This is why, and if you disagree (likely) I’d like to hear (constructively) why that is. Lets try a common example to illustrate my point.

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23Dec

Hahlo 4.1 is here, and its *totally awesome* Hit the link to read the full post on the Hahlo blog detailing the new and improved features in 4.1including lists, retweets and geolocation amongst other things.

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Fluency Admin 2.2 now available

Sidenote
21Dec
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WordPress 2.9 compatibility, fixes a few minor style bugs, adds options for custom menu width, menu positioning (fixed or absolute) and show/hide menu icons. More info here or download from the WordPress plugin directory here.

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17Dec

Ten things that annoy Jeff Croft about twitter He makes some very good points. I tend to agree with his comment in relation to @mentions, but I would rather that we still had an option as to whether or not we wanted to see them. I personally do want to see other peoples @mentions - its how I used to find interesting people (and how I found @jeffcroft in the first place).

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16Dec

PastryKit I spotted the pastrykit.js inside Apple’s mobile help pages ages ago, and at the time I hoped that I might be able to reverse engineer bits of it to work out how the hell it was working…I had no luck at all. It would be nice if Apple would released this to developers but I’m doubtful. I stand by my theory that Apple won’t open up these sort of things (also file/camera access etc) to web developers because they want people to build native apps, not webapps.

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American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009) (V)

Review
09Dec
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Worst American Pie movie ever. Admittedly none of the previous three straight-to-dvd releases have been as ‘good’ as the original three either, but this was something else. Thing that annoyed me the most, apart from the myriad of bad actors and worse cameos (Kevin Federline… seriously WTF?), was the douche playing the distant Stifler relative in this movie. He spent all his screen time desperately trying to mimic Seann William Scott from the original movies, and not doing it well. If you’re in the need for some mindless toilet humour, and you’ve got absolutely no other alternative then maybe it’s worth a look. Maybe.

3/10

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DC Comics’ Heroes and Villains Drawn as Minifigs

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09Dec
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DC Comics Heroes and Villains Drawn as Minifigs

Is it just me, or is everything even more awesome when drawn as Lego minifigs?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5422093/dc-comics-heroes-and-villains-drawn-as-minifigs

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05Dec

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell Sad thing is that this is all so true. From personal experience its all usually the direct result of a client and/or marketing department who thinks they know ‘web’ more than the people that they’ve employed to do ‘web’. Pretty sure I’ve experienced every step of this ‘hell’ process in the last six months (or less).

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