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Why I hate Instagram

I hate Instagram with an intense, flaming passion. A passion so deeply seated in my being and affecting so many parts of my value system that I have trouble actually putting it in to words. I claw my skin and eyes thinking about it, awake breathless at 3am because of ...

Strange dream: Indonesian food

Ever since my last girlfriend and I broke up around a month ago I seem to be prone to strange dreams. I guess my subconscious mind is doing backflips of some sort and I won’t allow myself to interpret these thoughts while awake. I had been posting the dreams to ...

Beautified, unminified version of the FBJS source

Useful for Facebook app hackers: the FBJS code, unminified.

How to request additional permissions during an FBJS Ajax call

Here’s something we learned with FANBLDR, our Facebook Page Maker. If you do an Ajax call in FBML+FBJS, you can use the requireLogin=1 attribute to request permissions. These will then be sent to the receiving script via POST. However, what if you need extra permissions? Try this: Facebook.showPermissionDialog('publish_stream', ...

How a Facebook app can change its own tab name

The mysterious admin.setAppProperties holds all the secrets.

How to determine who installed your Facebook app in a tab

As any Facebook developer knows, Facebook has some restrictive ideas about permissions and what apps should be allowed to do on your behalf or even know about you. One consequence of this is that Facebook avoids giving you any information about the user who is interacting with your app in ...

The evils of fb:tabs

The and FBML tags are very handy to use in your Facebook apps if you want to maintain the Facebook appearance. Unfortunately, they also have weird target behavior that causes the user to leave your application’s frame - if it’s an FBML canvas tab app, and you want ...

Incoming: Facebook App Developer tips

I’m doing a lot of Facebook App development lately, and I’m finding the internet to be sorely lacking in good resources for a lot of this stuff. So on this blog in the coming weeks I’m going to feature a few tips for the greater good of the web.

The dog that funk built

Editor’s note: This is actually a very old post, from around May of 2005 if I recall. I’m making it live now because it was too painful to make live before, but the attic needs to be swept out from time to time. I’m writing this even though Coco St. ...

Secure browser sessions by proxying through SSH

Download Putty and Puttygen Run Puttygen Create a private key; save it somewhere on your harddrive. Don’t bother with encrypting/passwording it. Copy the public key (shown in the box) with Ctrl-C Login to the server you want to proxy through, as normal, with Putty Edit .ssh/authorized_keys - you may have to create the .ssh folder Paste ...