I’ve updated my personal website to be a minimal, single serving site.
The site has moved from Jekyll to Nesta CMS. The content is all still very much static, but I love the ability to add Ruby/Rack power when I need to. The easiest way to host a simple Nesta/Sinatra/Rack application is Heroku, which is awesome. But I am, apparently, a glutton for punishment. I took the opportunity to move to Linode (from Media Temple) in order to learn about sysadmin stuff, which is hard. The site is served by Nginx proxying to Unicorn: it’s overkill to serve a one-page site.
One of my favorite things about my new home on the web is the stuff you don’t see: the HTML underneath. Using the rel="me" attribute to link to my other profiles, I provide web crawlers some semantic hinting for identity consolidation. This Tumblr blog links back to my profile with a rel="author" attribute. With the inclusion of my Google Profile on my home page, I’m explicitly telling Google that I, Mark Wunsch the author of this blog, am the same Mark Wunsch represented by @markwunsch on Twitter, et al. Semantic markup can be really powerful.
Conversation with my brother, Eric.
I am impressed with the huge outpouring from the tech community to fight SOPA/PIPA. A few of my colleagues used their lunch break to march with other New Yorkers in protest. I am really proud of them. But I have to admit, I’m a bit surprised at the internet’s sudden activism. I shouldn’t be: SOPA and PIPA are seriously flawed and put a large number of businesses and vital communication tools at risk. I guess it doesn’t matter what lit the powder keg, but this should only be the beginning. I’m convinced that the internet and technology community needs representation on K Street. I believe an internet lobby/think-tank is vital to the free (libre) and open internet. It’s short-sighted to stop at SOPA/PIPA. Technology and, most importantly, Science needs to have a voice in the ear of Congress. I hope SOPA awoke a machine to champion even greater causes.
“I’m a, uh, software engineer for Gilt Groupe.” air type
Always double taking. (redeux)
At the half, the New England Patriots lead the Denver Broncos 35 to 7.
This morning, I predicted and promised in a tweet:
Preparing a script to collect the “Where’s your god now Tebow?” tweets following a Broncos loss.
I am not disappointed.
As promised, here is a script that runs a query and returns tweets saying something to the affect of “Where is your god now Tebow?”
To make it, I brushed off my old Twitter Search JS library, Twitcher, and got the chance to use Twitter’s new JS templating engine, Hogan.js.
JSFiddle makes an excellent tool for whipping up quick one-page proof-of-concepts.
If I were to charge money for access to a hosted Thimble-like Tumblr theme development environment, would you pay?
Choice styles from my new Tumblr theme, based on my enjoyment of coding. Inspired by my new text editor of choice: Sublime Text 2 (with Soda theme & Espresso color scheme).
I like the idea of writing Markdown and it being presented as such.
In the grey Google bar, there’s a gear in the upper left corner. Click on that, then on Search Settings.
Do not use personal results
Enjoy finding things on the internet, and don’t feel so bad for getting excited about joining Google+ when it was announced. We all should have known better.
