Entries by Scott Wheeler

Facebook's notion of a friend has a 1-bit depth. True or false. A social graph of line-art, if you will. This is in stark contrast ...

A couple days ago I released a Wikipedia Beautifier for Chrome inspired by Readability. It was my first exploration into the world of Chrome extensions ...

Or, "Why using send doesn't work as exptected" So, I've been banging away at a Rails plugin the last few days.  One of the things that ...

I'd been looking for an excuse to create a Cocoa app for a while. Even though I still switch hit between Ubuntu and OS X, ...

I've finally succumbed to the Github bug and have been slowly offloading small projects that I've created mostly for work stuff. The latest of these ...

TagLib, which I wrote way back in the day and has since been through many releases had another bug fix release that went out today, ...

There's one funny bit in the history of starting up Directed Edge: I have no idea when I decided to do it. I don't really ...

I've traveled a good bit in my day; I've been to some 20-odd countries, 4 continents, you know, the works.  And if there's one thing ...

So after Fred's post caused a little bit of a stir in the blogosphere by downplaying some of the advantages for startups being in Silicon Valley, and ...

I'm not one of the sort of folks that gets irritated when people unfollow me on Twitter, but I do like to keep track of ...

I'm an avid reader of news.yc, but it's annoyed me for some time that the RSS feed is rather broken.  So, I decided to dust ...

I got started with web programming in the early days. '97, specifically.  CGI.pm was the soup of the day for 4 years straight.  But starting ...

After a handful of Tweets on the topic a while back I ended up having a brief email exchange with John Musser from Programmable Web (great site, ...

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] We've had more snow in Berlin this year than since I moved to Germany in 2002.  I've been a wanna-be-amateur photographer for a ...

 Really looking forward to the Berlinale this year.  So much, in fact, that I'm going to see 5 of the competition films: The Messenger Alle Anderen Chéri Forever Enthralled London ...

Yesterday, in a rare display of lack-of-guilt-for-not-working, I pulled out the bass for a bit and started improvising into the sequencer. Pretty soon it ...

Interview from a couple months back at the web 2.0 expo. Thanks to Jof for doing the interview! Update: Flash link has been broken for ...

I've become quite a Twitter junkie.  I don't use one of them new-fandangled Twitter clients; I read the RSS in Thunderbird.  Twitter's RSS feeds are, ...

I'd somehow outgrown my other collection of blogs.  I've got the one for KDE, which isn't really appropriate to spam with my born-again-web-iness and startup ...