I had been using Shelfari for a few years to keep track of books I've read and plan to read. I really liked the website's interface and they had this nice widget that lets you display a bookshelf of your reading list on your blog. But when I forced SSL on my blog, it stopped working. The widget doesn't work over https.
I then looked for other widgets and tried Amazon's widget. But their widget …
This is more a "note to self" in case I need to do this again.
We use hub at work mainly to convert GitHub issues to pull requests. For Mac users, you can install it by simply typing in brew install hub. But for Linux users, the installation is a little bit more complicated.
Below is the easy way to do it:
sudo apt-get install ruby sudo curl https://hub.github.com/standalone -Lo /usr/bin/hub sudo chmod 755 …
A user of one of my Django apps, GlucoseTracker, suggested this to me last week and I actually didn't even know this feature existed. I thought it was a really great idea and it turned out it can be done easily with about 3 lines of additional code:
# base.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>GlucoseTracker</title>
<!-- Enables 'Add to Homescreen' for Android -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<link rel="icon" sizes="192x192" href="{% static …
While most people probably find content on your site through Google, it might still be a good idea to just add a basic search functionality to it. You can control which fields to search, how your results are displayed, and your readers won't have to leave your site. You may also have content that is not yet public that you want to be able to search, such as unpublished articles or blog posts.
For this …
This is at least the second time this has happened to me so I figured I'd make a note here for future reference.
Basically I was running the Software Update and it complained that there is "Not enough free disk space":
The upgrade needs a total of 81.7 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 15.5 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of …