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Backbone.js & Underscore.js Natural Sorting Algorithm

Backbone is great but I continually found the default sorting method limited due to the following:

Disc 1, Disc 2, … Disc 10 would become Disc 1, Disc 10, Disc 2

With the help of Jim Palmer's naturalSort.js, I was able to integrate natrual sorting into Backbone.Collection.

Backbone collections are automatically sorted and now, by simply adding sortType:"natural", your collections can be sorted naturally.

How to track your Instapaper queue with Beeminder

A step by step guide to tracking your Instapaper reading list using Beeminder. This method can also be used more generally to track many things that spit out an RSS feed.

In short: Instapaper gives you (private) RSS feeds for your Read later folder and your Archive. We give IFTTT these feeds and tell it to send an email to Beeminder whenever either feed updates. We'll send a "+1" when you add an item to your read later folder and a "-1" when you archive an item. Your Beeminder goal will track the total number of articles in your queue.

Ingredients

An Instapaper account.
A Beeminder account, with at least a Bee Lite subscription (because you'll need to set up a custom goal).
An IFTTT account.
A Gmail account.

Moved

Now located at https://github.com/JeffPaine/beautiful_idiomatic_python.

Why it was moved

Github gists don't support Pull Requests or any notifications, which made it impossible for me to maintain this (surprisingly popular) gist with fixes, respond to comments and so on. In the interest of maintaining the quality of this resource for others, I've moved it to a proper repo. Cheers!

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