Older blog entries for bradfitz (starting at number 261)

PubSubHubbub

Brett and I made a bunch of progress on PubSubHubbub today. Bunch of new docs, two Perl modules, protocol clarifications & spec cleanup, hub server updates, etc.

If you haven't read about it, or it's been awhile, I encourage you to go check it out.

We're looking for help with client libraries and general involvement if you have any time! Join the list and claim a language / CMS.

Syndicated 2009-04-27 05:09:32 (Updated 2009-04-27 13:31:05) from Brad Fitzpatrick

Newspaper Death

When I read blogs, I'm more tolerant to grammatical mistakes. But the AP? C'mon:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/19/ap-obama-gores-foreign-po_n_188770.html

....

At his news conference Obama said he didn't think he did much damage to U.S. security or interests by shaking the hand of Chavez, whose country has a defense budget about one-six hundredth the size of the United States, and depends upon it's oil reserves for solvency.

....

(emphasisze mine)

Seriously, AP editors? Seriously, Steven R. Hurst?

Maybe the newspapers should die.

Syndicated 2009-04-20 15:26:01 (Updated 2009-04-20 16:30:46) from Brad Fitzpatrick

Happy 10 years!

Happy 10 year birthday, LiveJournal!

Syndicated 2009-04-16 04:44:30 from Brad Fitzpatrick

Google Profiles gets pretty URLs

Ugly URL:
http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/115863474911002159675

Pretty URL:
http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz

(I don't work on this, but am excited about pretty URLs....)

Syndicated 2009-04-14 18:01:54 from Brad Fitzpatrick

Ireland

Still in Ireland. Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Dingle, Killarney, Cork, ....

So pretty.

Bunch of photos on my picasaweb and a video on youtube (that was over picasa's wtf 100MB limit).

Syndicated 2009-03-21 09:10:27 (Updated 2009-03-21 09:26:04) from Brad Fitzpatrick

Travel

After 5 nights in lovely Barcelona and a night in Casablanca, Sierra and I are currently in Marrakesh at the most ridiculous hotel I've ever seen.

Marrakesh is ridiculous(ly awesome) from what I've seen. Time to go see more. And get foods. Foooood.

P.S. Everything is in Arabic and French. I speak neither of these languages, but I understand the French letters and a lot of the words. I know like 5 French phrases. They don't get me very far.

Syndicated 2009-02-13 14:52:24 (Updated 2009-02-13 14:54:42) from Brad Fitzpatrick

Pictiondrunkery

Tessa liked my proposal for birthday bar hopping beginning by meeting at my house with some drunken Pictionary, which she calls "Pictiondrunkery".

But yeah --- if I know you and/or you've ever been over to my house, come by tonight. We'll be drinking and playing board games while people arrive between 7 and 9 or so, and then head out after that.

Syndicated 2009-02-05 23:59:48 from Brad Fitzpatrick

age++

29.

Tonight's plan is/was to go out and get drinks with friends, but I've got a fever+sore throat that may interfere. Seems to be getting better, but we'll see.

Hmm, I kinda forgot to post anything all throughout January, including a 2008-in-review post. I should do that still.

Syndicated 2009-02-05 15:02:04 from Brad Fitzpatrick

Seattle in a nutshell

Brrr. Love it.

Syndicated 2008-12-20 21:13:00 from Brad Fitzpatrick

Android, Debian, Linux, remote keyboard to G1, ...

I'm loving Android more and more. I keep finding (and filing) bugs, but they're all fixable, and this is only going to keep getting better.

Today I installed Debian on my G1. I followed those instructions up until the unionfs part, where I opted to use bind mounts instead, letting me have a /android/data and /android/system inside my Debian chroot.

Anyway, I now have openssh, perl, python, sqlite3, emacs, git, svn, gcc, screen, nmap, tcpdump, iftop, etc... all running on my phone in a little 2GB filesystem. (I have a 16GB SD card). Then using ConnectBot, I just keep an ssh connection from the phone to localhost all the time, so Debian is accessible when I'm out and about.

But when I'm at home and want to ssh in, I have a bash alias which forwards a port over USB:

alias droid='$ANDSDK/tools/adb forward tcp:1622 tcp:22 && ssh -p 1622 root@localhost'

... so then my openssh server only needs to listen on localhost.

Now that I can just ssh into my phone to work on stuff, I was getting annoyed having to reply to SMSes by using the little phone keyboard when I was sitting in front of a real keyboard.

So I wrote this:
http://github.com/bradfitz/android-misc/tree/master/type.pl [mirror]

That's an app which captures my keystrokes in my ssh session (I have it running in a screen window), and then injects them into the Linux input layer, so Android thinks I'm typing them on the keyboard.

Even cooler: I wrote that all ssh'd into my phone, over ssh in Emacs in screen, including git-push'ing it to github.com.

Fun stuff.

(Don't worry --- I'm not just working on useless stuff. dan_erat and I were hacking on an Android app today which everybody can use....)

Syndicated 2008-12-15 07:15:18 (Updated 2008-12-15 07:17:11) from Brad Fitzpatrick