Soylentfoo on Rocketboom, Amazon EC2

Posted Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:38:00 GMT to , , , , by
Jesse Newland

Soylentfoo and Tweet, a Twitter action for Quicksilver that I made some updates to, were shown for around 15 milliseconds in today’s episode of Rocketboom. This is both nothing and everything at the same time. Watch it here.

In other meta-news, earlier this morning I moved Soylentfoo from my Textdrive Mixed Grill account to a Amazon EC2 server (domu-12-31-34-00-02-4e.usma2.compute.amazonaws.com, to be exact). For those thinking of using EC2 as a Ruby on Rails host in the future, stay tuned for a release of Capazon, a Capistrano rubygem plugin that aims to make deployment of a Rails application to an Amazon EC2 instance a ridiculously simple process. I’m getting very very close to a release.

Kind of Blue

Posted Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:38:00 GMT to , by
Jesse Newland

Another boring Sunday Night, another look for my blog. I designed a theme for the blog to match my resume, which I designed a year or so ago.

I like this look quite a bit. I also like the idea of unifying the look of all parts of my domain.

Thoughts / comments? Don’t be shy.

It's Not Easy Being Green

Posted Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:02:00 GMT to , by
Jesse Newland

To celebrate the Typo Theme Contest, I’ll be redesigning my blog numerous times this month. This edition will be called Simple, and will be tested here for a few days, submitted, and then be replaced by a new design.

Features of Simple:

  • 100% less graphics
  • Pleasant, green headers.
  • Clean, easy to read fonts (Georgia for the headers, Verdana for the body text)
  • Only the most recent post is displayed, with links to most of the older ones below. I’m still kind of iffy about this. I may change it up so that only posts from the last week are displayed, instead of just one. Maybe I’ll show snippets, ala Gmail. Who knows.
  • A search in progress now displays text instead of that pesky blue spinner.

Anyway, if you have anything to say about this design, leave a comment! I’m open to suggestions.