Andrew Price's Blog Andrew Price's blog from his Substance Without Direction website. This feed lists up to the 10 last blog entries. http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/ Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:38:42 +0000 wBlog @ sucs en Twyt Discontinued This is kind of an overdue announcement but I am discontinuing my development of Twyt. It has not worked properly since Twitter switched off basic aut [...] http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/twyt-discontinued Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:38:42 +0000 Andrew Price This is kind of an overdue announcement but I am discontinuing my development of Twyt. It has not worked properly since Twitter switched off basic auth in favour of OAuth and I have no interest in making it work again. The bzr repository is still available so if anybody does have any interest in making it work, feel free. Perhaps it could be turned into a StatusNet client.

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]]> http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/twyt-discontinued Dear Laptop Vendors... ... my parents have set me the task of selecting a laptop for them to buy, to replace their ageing desktop machine. The time frame is fairly generous: [...] http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/dear-laptop-vendors Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:43:33 +0000 Andrew Price ... my parents have set me the task of selecting a laptop for them to buy, to replace their ageing desktop machine. The time frame is fairly generous: early 2010. (At this point it may be useful to note that we live in the UK). Now, listen closely because here comes the tricky part. The desktop machine has been running Ubuntu for a few years, which means they want the new laptop to run Ubuntu. No ifs, no buts. That’s what they want. They’re happy with Ubuntu.

Reading about David Woodhouse’s painful adventures in laptop purchasing (and others’) left a sour taste in my mouth. I don’t want to subject my parents to a similar experience. That is, I have no interest in advising them to buy a laptop with Windows installed on it, only to tell them they’ll have to contact one or more companies to request a refund, forensically and photographically document the removal of Windows from the hard disk, threaten legal action when said refund doesn’t materialise and jump through the other flaming hoops involved in buying a laptop without paying for an unused copy of Windows.

The fact that my parents want Ubuntu does not necessarily mean that they want it preinstalled; it simply means that they do not want to have to pay for Windows in the first instance. Focus on that small-but-important detail.

So, laptop vendors of the UK, you have until next year to offer my parents a good customer experience.

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]]> http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/dear-laptop-vendors The Soldier There was nothing for her here. Past the template-punched houses she trudged, the old soldier staring through the same grey pavement. She had taken th [...] http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/the-soldier Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:25:13 +0000 Andrew Price There was nothing for her here. Past the template-punched houses she trudged, the old soldier staring through the same grey pavement. She had taken the bullet, and somehow the world was more silent now. A gust of wind blew and corrected her posture like a loyal friend. She stopped and leaned into the air, eyes softly shut. The air caressed and cradled her body as it passed her by. She smiled. It had whispered its secret to her. Arms straight at her sides, she caught the air and rose into it: the baby on Mother’s shoulder, high above it all.

This is in reply to Scott’s drabble meme blog entry. I’m not sure I completely understand the rules but the ones I’ve read so far have been good reads so I thought I’d have a go, too.

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]]> http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/the-soldier Twyt 0.9.1 - Under The Same Stars Twyt 0.9.1 has been released and is available to download from the usual place. This release cycle has been pushed along by suggestions, patches an [...] http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/twyt-091---under-the-same-stars Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:01:50 +0000 Andrew Price

Twyt 0.9.1 has been released and is available to download from the usual place.

This release cycle has been pushed along by suggestions, patches and testing from users of the twyt command line client, so the twyt Twitter API module has only undergone some tweaks and just a few additions to the set of supported API methods.

Changes to the twyt client include:

  • A ’namecache’ subcommand, intended for making tab completion scripts more useful
  • Better support for using twyt in pipelines (you can now pipe messages into ’twyt tweet’)
  • Now prints screen names instead of real names (by popular demand)
  • A ’sing’ subcommand (it’s silly, but it gets used)
  • Better non-ASCII character handling

The #twyt hashtag is getting used quite regularly now, but for bug reports and patches please stick to good, old-fashioned email.

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]]> http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/twyt-091---under-the-same-stars Restoring Removed Files With Git So you've accidentally rm'd a file in a git tree and you want it back. What to do? $ git checkout HEAD -- path/to/removed/file This tip was brought [...] http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/entry/restoring-removed-files-with-git Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:01:49 +0000 Andrew Price So you’ve accidentally rm’d a file in a git tree and you want it back. What to do?

$ git checkout HEAD -- path/to/removed/file

This tip was brought to you by Andy’s determination to remember how to do it next time, in cooperation with wasted moments spent reading the wrong man page (git reset). Sigh.

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