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punkave.com is way cooler now!

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Not to toot our horn or nothin, but we've just launched a new site for ourselves. At 6:05pm on the last business day of the year we've cobbled our children some new shoes. It was a lot of fun making…

svncampfire: svn commit notices in campfire, take 2

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Using svn for version control? Have lots of repositories you're interested in? Maybe some of them aren't under your control, so you can't set up postcommit hooks? Check out svncampfire (literally... haha, see what I did there). svncampfire pastes…

Batman Construction Set: Managing Many Identities With Gmail

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Last month Batman decided he was too busy to keep track of a separate batman@batcave.com email inbox. Especially since the economic downturn had forced him to lay off Alfred. So he forwarded all of his batman@batcave.com email to his…

Give PNG a Chance

When I led the PNG working group and edited the first ten drafts of the PNG file format specification, I hoped that PNG image files would swiftly replace GIFs. I was wrong about that. Netscape, which had offered nary…

Dear Gmail: let us map filters to "From" addresses

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Dear Gmail, labels. multiple "From:" addresses. Now, please let me select a default "From:" address when replying to messages with a particular label. Then I can manage my various secret identities business roles with a much lower rate of accidental…