Benjamin Atkin benatkin

Stopping habitual time-wasting on twitter

Quit using twitter for three weeks. Do it in a way that will require a password reset.

Make sure you're comfortable with your twitter page looking the same for a long period of time.
Post a simple tweet saying you'll be gone. Mine was #hiatus.
Generate a random password and copy it to the clipboard. A one-liner that does it in OS X is provided at the bottom.
Delete all GUI twitter clients from all devices. For me, this meant my MBP, my iPad, and my iPhone.
Log out of twitter on all browsers, except one.
Go to the password change page in settings. Paste the password in twice and save it.

WatchWednesday for 20100929

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The Changelog

technoweenie/faraday (@technoweenie)

Faraday is a rack-inspired API client library. It supports middleware and multiple backends. Like rack, it's the kind of thing that makes you wonder why no highly-skilled hacker built it sooner.

Testing out this gist stuff =p

I love gists.

	def iequals(str1, str2):
	"""Returns true if two strings are equal in a case-insensitive comparison."""

	import re
	return re.match(re.escape(str1) + r'\Z', str2, re.I) is not None

	// my silly change to the default code on http://sketch.processing.org/

	void setup()
	{
	size(200,200);
	background(0, 82, 51);
	fill(255);
	noLoop();
	PFont fontA = loadFont("courier");
	textFont(fontA, 14);

	import oauth2.clients.imap as imaplib
	import email


	class Mailbox(object):
	def __init__(self, conn):
	self.conn = conn
	self.total = self.conn.select('INBOX')[1][0]
	self.current = 1

	! I hope to expand this later, but for now, I got it working by following
	! the instructions at the URL below, installing both the chrome extension
	! and the gem, saving the refresh-chrome script, and adding this to my ~/.vimrc.
	!
	! http://github.com/kzys/chromerepl

	map <leader>r :silent !/Users/ben/bin/refresh-chrome<cr>

	from django.contrib import admin
	from django.contrib.admin.views.main import ChangeList
	from tunes.models import Song

	class SpecialOrderingChangeList(ChangeList):
	def apply_special_ordering(self, queryset):
	order_type, order_by = [self.params.get(param, None) for param in ('ot', 'o')]
	special_ordering = self.model_admin.special_ordering
	if special_ordering and order_type and order_by:
	try:

	if ($.inArray('something_strange', neighbourhood) != -1) {
	ghostbusters.call();
	}

	# A partial port of http://geewax.org/introducing-appmake to Rake

	PYTHON = "python"
	APPENGINE = "/usr/local/google_appengine"
	APP_ID = "" # replace with your app id
	EMAIL = "" # replace with your email address
	SERVE_PORT = 9091
	SERVE_ADDRESS = "0.0.0.0"
	DATASTORE_PATH = "./datastore"