Latest Notes & Articles.

Easy user data with TextExpander

A conduit from TextExpander to the Faker gem for generating realistic user data

Published Dec 1st, 2009, 0 comments

Generating sequences in TextExpander

A Snippet and supporting Ruby scripts for generating sequences in TextExpander on OS X.

Published Nov 30th, 2009, 0 comments

has_web_fallback

A gem to make ActionMailer HTML emails a little more user-friendly.

Published Nov 8th, 2009, 0 comments

On Charles Arthur's P2P moral dilemma.

An article on the Guardian about the morality of file-sharing has annoyed me. Not the article itself, more the attitude of some of the commenters.

Published Aug 7th, 2009, 5 comments

On the Twitter.

@fraserspeirs Are the kids going to have any install rights on the machine? Plenty of apps have embedded 'browsers' without history.

12:09, March 10th, 2010

FlickrStream.

Stegosaurus Aaargh! IMG_3441 I have a new shiny

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Interesting Things.

Ruby Version Manager

Easy management of different Ruby binaries and gems. Very useful for managing the transition to Rails 3.0 and Ruby 1.9

List of cognitive biases

"A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations". This could form the basis of a new kind of Bingo game in meetings.

Readability Bookmark

Customizable bookmarklet from arc90 that reformats webpages for increased legibility. Especially well suited for any site who's name ends in 'crunch'.

The Fun Theory

Clever ideas for incentivising people to do the 'right' thing by making it fun. For example, using the stairs as a giant piano over the lazy escalator, or a litter bin that makes fun noises when you drop things in it.

COI usability toolkit

A surprisingly accurate and lucid guide to web usability from the UK Government for its content authors - via bunnyfoot