Tagged: web
Noodle: Search Like It's Y2K Again
I built a self-hosted search engine that uses LLMs to rank results by relevance instead of ad revenue.
Emoji Domains & Mastodon
Getting a Mastodon server running on an emoji domain
Bloggin'
Starting to blog again, evaluating static site generators, and settling on Eleventy with Cloudflare Pages for hosting.
Ember FastBoot + Google App Engine
A guide to getting EmberJS FastBoot running on Google App Engine with the Node.js runtime in just seven lines of config.
Unicode Chicken Dot TK
Registering an emoji chicken domain name and navigating the quirks of Unicode URLs across browsers and social networks.
CoverLeaf magazines can still be read for free
Discovering that magazine page images from CoverLeaf's iPad app are freely accessible via predictable URLs, with a script to download them.
MAKE RSS Feed Generator
A walkthrough of building a tool to auto-generate RSS feed URLs for MAKE magazine subscriptions on CoverLeaf, including the reverse engineering process.
How CoverLeaf could use my hack to make a mint
A proposal for how CoverLeaf could turn their PDF magazine distribution into a real revenue stream for smaller publishers in the post-iPad world.
Read MAKE on your iPad
How I discovered unprotected PDF download links on CoverLeaf's magazine platform and turned them into an RSS feed for reading MAKE on the iPad.
iBank for iPhone
A web-based iBank interface for iPhone using iUI, syncing financial data through MobileMe iDisk.
iBank Tapp
A telekinesis tapp for entering transactions into iBank directly from your iPhone.