testing pingback

I’m testing pingback for older post

On dormant blogs and completing projects

I am currently ramping up to reinvigorate my blog / online presence / personal brand / social media strategy, etc. etc.

What you are seeing on my blog today is a temporary placeholder until I can officially “relaunch.”

I’ve recently moved to the East Coast (Somerville, MA) and have been doing some Big Thinking about where I’m going with my work, life, etc. Part of this is a renewed emphasis on ego-building online. It’s easier now than ever, and I’m really exhausted by seeing uninteresting people have all the fun.

However, as an antidote to my bad habits of taking on too many low-value projects and passive aggressively making the last 20% of ongoing projects drag on and on, I have been trying to implement Cal Newport’s idea of a completion-centric productivity.

Rearranging the deck chairs

Summary

interface sketch

Expressive Technology

From an email I just sent out:
“I’m building a robotic marionette (see http://www.delamaquina.com). The couple times I’ve shown it off in public, it is fascinating to watch reactions — first, people notice this creepy puppet moving around… then inevitably, their eyes travel up the strings and see this machine with spinning pulleys and wires. They [...]

Minor fixes to site

Some minor wordpress tweaks
* Fixed odd format on permalink pages
* Fixed double “Tag: Tag:”

Permalink Pages looking all weird

Not done converting, yet. Relax.

Shaking it loose

Returning to a pre-sxsw template for davidnunez.com… finally completing the mephisto to wordpress migration.

I’ve been hacking away at a little app to post/share what I’m going to call “sketchstreams”
I learned a lot about how I _enjoy_ working while getting ready for maker faire.
I’ll be adding features and tweaking the design on the blog in iterations [...]

Applescript to import articles into devonthink pro and del.icio.us from incoming NetNewsWire RSS streams

The applescript in this post will take the currently selected headline or tabbed article in NetNewsWire, prompt the user for tags about the article, and then create an HTML copy of the article in DEVONThink in a sub group.
If the first tag is not the word “private” then the link is also posted, via [cocoalicious](http://www.scifihifi.com/cocoalicious/), [...]

Converting from Mephisto to Wordpress

Finished pulling in old entries to wordpress.
1. adjust controllers/feed_controller so that the article limit is greater than number of articles
2. clear cached feed in settings
3. in CLI, execute “curl http://yoururl.com/feed/ > feed.xml” (atom)
4. use an xml / xsl editor on feed.xml to apply the Atom2RSS xsl sheet found here [http://atom.geekhood.net/](http://atom.geekhood.net/)
5. Use RSS import [...]