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  • Yahoo Pipes Blog – Pipes End-of-life Announcement

    So Yahoo Pipes is closing down. As of August 30th 2015, users will no longer be able to create new Pipes. The Pipes team will keep the infrastructure running until end of September 30th 2015 in a read-only mode. You can download your Pipe definition by specifying your Pipe-ID (_id) and the output format (_out=json)…

  • Processing Processing

    Every now and then I go back and reread Ftrain’s amazing essay. And more than 12 years after it was written, it’s still one of the most insightful and inspiring pieces of writing on the web about the web.

  • Dave Winer: Andrew wants a home page

    OK. At this point I’m now officially confused by the Dave Winer road-map / strategy. I’m sure it’s evolving and exploratory. But Dave’s productivity means that I’m no longer keeping up with how this is meant to go down. So we had an outliner. (Fargo). And then an open-sourced version of the editor (Yay! Concord).…

  • OWLdroid fixed, thanks to BTSync

    Good news. The latest version of BTSync actually lets me specify which folder on my Android tablet I want to sync. That means I can explicitly tell it to sync. the OWL directory that OWLdroid uses by default. (Somewhere between updates of Android and BTSync last year, this facility got lost.) So it’s looking like…

  • Project ThoughtStorms : Wikish Plugin Update

    I’m updating my copy of the Smallest Federated Wiki, and the plugin format has evolved again. (Not surprising, the SFW is still in its experimental stage.) So, I’ve broken out my plugin for ThoughtStorms / SdiDesk format (wikish) from the original Project ThoughtStorms and made a dedicated git repository in the recommended format, naming convention…

  • The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty

    The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty – Slashdot.

  • Uninstalling Python

    Note to self : sudo apt-get remove python2.7 Has a pretty dramatic effect on a Ubuntu box. There are a LOT of packages these days that are dependent on Python somewhere inside them (including a lot of Unity) 🙂

  • The New Flow Internet

    ThoughtStorms:TheNewFlowInternet Some notes on the new cards-down-notification-flow paradigm.

  • Google Code Goes Dark

    So Google are shutting down Google Code. To be honest, I don’t think it will be much missed. It’s a tacit acknowledgement that the state-of-the-art for code-hosting sites, and even how to run code-hosting sites, has moved far beyond it with GitHub. Google have obviously worked with GitHub and BitBucket to support migration. And, ironically,…

  • Quick And Dirty Java Analysis

    I needed a quick and dirty way to see the class hierarchy and interface implementation of about 40 to 50 classes / interfaces in a small Java program. I didn’t need proper UML analysis / format or anything fancy. So a quick Python script + Graphviz did the job.

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