28 Feb
Posted by Harper in Technology at 05:04 PM
Tags: appengine, oauth, python, twitter
I built Excla.im quite awhile ago, well before Twitter unleased their oauth beta program. Regardless, Chris Messina tagged the Excla.im sign up process as an anty pattern within his flickr stream. I was bummed because i would have loved to use Oauth to authenticate Excla.im. But because of the tagging, i was constantly thinking about [...]
13 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 11:51 PM
Tags: bot, django, google app engine, jabber, python, sleekxmpp, twitter, xmpp
I use twitter quite a bit. I like to post to twitter in the most unobtrusive way possible. I don’t like to interupt my workflow to post a quick thought or update. When they used to have their Jabber bot running – it was easy for me to just type in my update and get [...]
10 Apr
Posted by Harper in Technology at 10:41 PM
Tags: audrey, chumby, flash, hacking, hardware, linux, python, Technology, widget
So I got a Chumby awhile ago. It is really neat. I fell in love with it immediately. I took it apart, put it back together. I turned on SSH, poked around, played with the insides. I replaced images, replaced flash pieces and then I got real busy. So this weekend I finally got to [...]
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