Tag Archives: code

Ubiquity

Today I got a chance to try out Ubiquity. What a neat concept! It’s a GUI command line like QuickSilver, only it’s implemented as a Firefox extension instead of a desktop application. The demo movie is impressive. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. I like how it shows information based on the text [...]

Injecting a gem

When installing Merb on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu Linux, I ran into a compiler error with hpricot, one of Merb’s dependencies. Before bothering to see what might be causing it, I checked to see if there was a precompiled apt-get package available. There was! I installed it and tried installing Merb again. It still [...]

Greasemonkey Script: Benjamin Franklin Quotes on reddit

I just wrote my first GreaseMonkey user script. It’s a script that puts a random Benjamin Franklin quote above the stories on reddit to remind me to be dutiful and not spend too much time looking at online news. I found the quotes through (you guessed it) reddit. Here’s what it looks like: And here’s [...]