tabtweet — a Twitter tab-completion extension for Google Chrome (or Chromium)

2010.02.07

I just uploaded a chrom{e,ium} extension to google’s extension repository. It adds tab-completion to twitter; when you type an @ symbol into your status box an autocomplete menu pops up with all of your friends’ screen names in it.

tabtweet screenshot

tabtweet screenshot

The project is open source. Here is the code (as well as an issue tracker, if you need to submit a bug report).

Technically speaking it’s an interesting project. It is a combination of:

  • the Chrom{e,ium} extensions framework / API
  • the Twitter API
  • the OAuth specification
  • HTML5 (local storage)
  • The jQuery library (with a patched autocomplete plugin)

and is the first open source javascript OAuth application I’ve come across. It uses code from this project (albiet with a small patch) to successfully implement the 7-step OAuth flow using AJAX. This was a pretty tremendous struggle as the internet doesn’t think you should do that.

The extension is in the Google chrome extensions directory. Try it out!

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automated cut-up poetry from large corpora

2010.01.07

I have completed my senior thesis project at earlham college.

It is stored in its entirety (code+paper) at github; although if you’d prefer a PDF over tex source there’s that too.

Here’s the video of my presentation (accompanying slides):

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amarok 2 + ampache 3.5.x

2009.10.19

I’ve been a longtime fan of ampache. As a way to centralize and broadcast your music library, it’s fantastic–easy setup, hardly any configuration, friendly web interface. My one annoyance was that, as long as I had my music in Ampache, I couldn’t really use it with my preferred media player Amarok. I could export playlists into Amarok (this is back in 1.4.x) but that was it; I manually had to go to Ampache, craft a playlist, export it, listen, repeat. Very tiresome.

Amarok 2 has finally filled the gap with its built-in Ampache plugin. Now, once configured, your Ampache collection can look and behave just like your local collection (sans tag editing features, but c’est la vie). Even album art is pulled.

There’s not much to it; one pitfall is that in my haste to make this work I installed Ampache from the Ubuntu repos; don’t do this. The version you get is 3.4.x which doesn’t work with Amarok 2’s plugin. Download 3.5.x from Ampache’s website and you’ll be good to go.

I just followed the directions here and was going in no time.

Now, I keep my music on an external hard drive attached to my eee server, Lovecraft, and access it from my work thinkpad / home thinkpad / on the go eee901 / where ever.

Also: it works with Amarok 2’s built-in last.fm support.

Hooray.

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global collaboration

2009.10.15

A friend had the idea to start up a game of musical telephone. The details of it are still somewhat foggy to me but, basically, I make one or more tracks, give them to someone else, and get tracks in return. I do what I want to what I get and trade those in. after some N number of trades, a song appears.

I took this as an opportunity to practice with some new stuff. First, I ran my pdrss program through the great jack rack for two minutes, recording into Rosegarden. Next, I just programmed some oscillators in pure data, put them through jack rack, and recorded another two minutes.

It’s late, and since someone else is going to be hacking these up anyway, I didn’t strive for perfection. I only did two or three takes for each track. They don’t match up all that great and their sluggish changes represent my still-neophyte computer music skillz (computer mice are different than mixer knobs).

I had a lot of fun, and since these tracks are for collaboration (and fairly large…nay, extremely large) I put them up here instead of gmailing them.

Enjoy, and please, take them and destroy them.

twittertalk
oscs

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sd.pl

2009.10.13
@i = split //,(pop @ARGV);print @i,”\n” and $i[rand int $#i]=chr ((int rand 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@i = split //,(pop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand int $#i]=chr ((int rand 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@i = split //,(pop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand int $#i]=chr ((int raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@i = }plit //,(pop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand int $#i]=chr ((int raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@i = }plit //,(pop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand @nt $#i]=chr ((int raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@i = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand @nt $#i]=chr ((int raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@i = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand @nt $#i]=chr (()nt raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” and $i[rand @nt $#i]=chr (()nt raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]=chr (()nt raOd 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]=chr (()nt raOi 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]echr (()nt raOi 94) + 32) while ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit //,(aop @ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]echr (()nt raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit //,(aopu@ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]echr (()nt raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aopu@ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]echr (()nt raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGV[0]–);
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@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGV[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @nt $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print @i,”%n” avd $i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print Si,”%n” avd $i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print Si,”%n” axd $i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print Ei,”%n” axd $i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]–);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print Ei,”%n” axd $i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]G-);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);print Ei,”%n” axdH$i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]G-);
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@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);rrinJ Ei,”%n” axdH$i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]G-);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);rrinJ Ei,”%n” axdH$i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARGI[0]G-);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);rrinJ Ei,”%n” axdH$i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>t raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARrI[0]G-);
@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);rrinJ Ei,”%n” axdH$i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>! raOi 94) + 32) -hile ($ARrI[0]G-);
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@z = }plit F/,(aohu@ARGV);rrinJ Ei,”%n” axdH$i[rand @n[ $#i]echr (()>! raOi ]40 + 32) -hile ($ARrI[0]G-);
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Everything: the detailed history of the future, the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages

2009.10.09

I have a radio show every Monday at 9p on WECI 91.5FM. It’s (usually) internet streamable from a rando IP address (directions).

I wrote a very very simple perl script to destroy a string over time. I find the end result to be pretty aesthetically pleasing, so I use it to make fliers for my radio show:

dead air flier

I used a quote from Borges’s Library of Babel as input. The code that does the string decay is up on github.

If you feel like advertising for me, here’s a larger printable version.

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!blosxom

2009.10.06

Originally this blog was a blosxom blog. I learned of blosxom through hobix, which also made me intensely fascinated by why and his subsequent disappearance.

Here’s why I liked blosxom, and eagerly installed it on lovecraft, my eee server:

  • it’s perl
  • I can use vim to edit my posts
  • it doesn’t insist on rdbms bloatware (I’m looking at you, mysql)
  • it’s hip. I guess.

Unfortunately, my experience was less than stellar. It started off great–the installation was easy and I was up and running within a few minutes. I made my first post with ease. I was still starting at a nineties-looking black-text-on-white-background ‘flavour,’ however, and decided to update it; unfortunately blosxom failed to ever find my flavour files and refused to change styles. I read and reread the docs on the blosxom website (which, I began to notice, has many broken links and some links that simply go to the wrong place) to no avail. I googled around; I found no information or documentation more recent than 2007. I finally logged onto #blosxom on freenode and asked there as politely and fully as possible; that was about 24hrs ago (Yes, I’ve been lurking) and I never received a response from the dozen or so lurkers in there.

I was worried that as I started to add stuff like comments and search that I would have a similar experience, so I made a wordpress blog for myself just like I did for my sweetheart.

And, jeez. Wordpress is just awesome. I will gladly overlook the php and the mysql for all the eye candy ease-of-use goodness awesome it provides.

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