Stel, je hebt een profiel op Hyves en je wilt aan de wereld meedelen hoe onwijs keivetgaaf de nieuwe superhit van Zanger Rinus is. Want echt, “Hey Marlous”, dat is de bom. Wat doe je dan? Juist. Je tikt een stukje aan elkaar, je gaat naar Youtube, pakt de embed-code, en plakt die onder je [...]
Category Archives: The Internet
Nog een rondje tweets
October 1, 2009 – 19:00
Sinds mijn vorige vergelijkbare lijstje is mijn Twitter-gebruik gexplodeerd. Hier zijn 10 tweets die wat extra aan dacht verdienen. Als mijn mening je niet aanstaat, vraag er dan niet om. 9:37 AM Jul 30th EO gaat toch geen Jezus-cabaret maken. Stelletje ruggegraatloze windvaantjes. http://tinyurl.com/lkyvnd 4:37 PM Aug 3rd En dan ben je risotto aan het [...]
Fixing Twitter's link click tracking with Greasemonkey
September 9, 2009 – 21:02
Recently Twitter started to track the links being clicked on twitter.com. Instead of sending you directly to, say, www.example.com they started to redirect you to a link like http://twitter.com/link_click_count?url=http://www.example.com&linkType=web&tweetId=123456&userId=456789&authenticity_token=1d52f617a7fb30a62a04db6c092ce6686f3bef50 I first noticed this new behaviour during one of Twitter’s infamous slow spells. Instead of seeing whatever it was I was supposed to see, all I [...]
insertaudioelement.js
August 9, 2009 – 14:21
HTML5 introduced the audio and video elements, which would make it a lot easier to embed audio and/or video in a webpage than it is now. Unfortunately, the browser vendors cannot seem to reach a consensus as to which codex the audio and video elements should be supported. Behold the comparison table* for audio-formats below: [...]
Lesson learned
August 5, 2009 – 22:44
Okay, so I just pieced together my first Greasemonkey user script, which exposes the short URLs Flickr provides. Neat little thing, and probably worth publishing so that everybody can use it, right? Well, guess what. Indeed: if I had done what I normally do—i.e., spend a little time searching the internet instead of just one [...]
