Drew Butler

I'm a web engineer, a beer enthusiast, a city wanderer, and I like to run.

[kris]

Me, fixing a seemingly simple bug.

[codingjester]

Me, after trying to help Kris fix his seemingly simple bug. Also drunk.

[pythonsweetness]

According to a quick gevent script, >0.7% of the first 100,000 sites from Alexa’s top 1 million sites are serving their .git directories to the outside world.

A quick glance at the produced list reveals several interesting domains, including the FCC, some *chan boards, one SAAS security vendor...

[codingjester]

Lincoln knows your password.

[alwaysintransit]

Four years and $100 million later, Bitcoin’s mysterious creator remains anonymous

[dbtlr]

It was generally assumed that Nakamoto has been mining Bitcoins since the very beginning and probably owned a large amount. But if Lerner’s analysis is correct, Nakamoto is likely hoarding an eye-popping fortune of almost a million Bitcoins, worth more than $100 million at today’s market price.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[raspberryseedsinmyteeth]

This is my favorite thing.

[mar-kicksass]

:(

[dbtlr]

I’m sorry Pluto. I didn’t mean to make you cry. 

Get back in the Kuiper Belt and take it like a massive ice body!!

[staff]

An upgrade, years in the making…

When we imagined Tumblr more than seven years ago, we dreamed of offering creators a new canvas. Every post would be a raw look through the author’s eyes and mind. We imagined the interface disappearing as these subjects came to life.

For years, this vision was challenged by limits in browser technology and an increasingly daunting set of Tumblr features to support. But today, we take a huge step.

After months of careful crafting, we’ve reduced creation on Tumblr to its essence, while carrying over every single feature and making room for some BIG new ones (like completely customizable drag-and-drop photoset creation, faster uploads, and inline reblogging!). We can’t wait for you to try it.

The upgrades have started rolling out and will be available for everyone by the end of the weekend. Most of the bugs and omissions you’ve reported have already been fixed, but please let us know if you run in to any other issues!

[dbtlr]

This is an amazing new upgrade for Tumblr and represents a ton of hard work by some amazing people. Congrats guys!

[dbtlr]

I think the comments say it best:

Sir, if I see a unicorn I can assure you that the very last thing I would do would be to stop taking the drugs that let me see it. Good day.

[staff]

This is HUGE!

Panoramas just got a big new view on Tumblr. Try it on your blog, the Dashboard, and the latest iPhone/iPad app too!

This works automatically for super-wide (3:1) high-res (1000px wide) photo uploads. And theme developers can now style panoramas in Tumblr themes with the {block:Panorama} tag.

Panorama by Blaine Davis

[unypl]

UNYPL in 2012: The Walkers

It’s a unique moment when I come across the walking readers. I see them suddenly, and then there are just a few strides left to take the picture candidly. Most of the time I catch up with them after they’ve already passed me by, to find out what they’re reading. Here they are from the past year, the walkers of the Underground Library: 

“A Clash of Kings,” by George R.R. Martin 

“Devil’s Gate,” by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown

“The Casual Vacancy,” by J. K. Rowling

“Mary, Mary,” by James Patterson

“Madame Bovary,” by Gustave Flaubert

“The Summer Book,” by Tove Jansson

“The Mother-Daughter Book Club,” by Heather Vogel Frederick

“Savor the Moment,” by Nora Roberts 

“Playing for Pizza”, by John Grisham

“The Proposal,” by Mary Balogh 

[inothernews]

Video game violence is not a new problem. Who can forget in the wake of Sim City how children everywhere took up urban planning? It was all ‘Tune in, turn on, and zone for residential use, man!!!’

STEPHEN COLBERT, remarking on gun nuts trying to shift blame for gun violence to video games — instead of, we don’t know, guns — on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)

[upworthy]

The Undeniable Problem With Guns In One Quick Chart: Shades of orange represent homicides, shades of blue represent suicides. Is comes as no surprise that the weapon of choice in the vast majority of violent deaths is a gun. This is not something we can afford to ignore any more, or explain away with a dismissive “a gun is just a tool, man!” In order for a gun to be a tool, it has to have a use other than killing. As far as I know, it doesn’t. Image courtesy of Ezra Klein and The Washington Post’s Todd Lindeman.

[jonathanrxd-deactivated20130522]

Saw this on Facebook and felt it needed to come over to Tumblr.

[dbtlr]

This kid is my hero. Way to own it.

[upworthy]

5 Family Portraits That Were Illegal In The U.S. Just 2 Years Ago: Just two years ago, these families were legally required to hide their existence. Now, after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” these families still face major hurdles to full rights and recognition under the law. See the rest here.

[lauraolin]

Ablogalypse is upon us, right on time.

[dbtlr]

I'm not sure if this is:

Genius

Pure theft from Tumblr (pinned posts anyone?)

Another excuse to make my feed less relevant

A complete and utter waste.

A combination of 2-4.

I am not impressed Facebook. $7 to promote a post to my friends? This seems like noise to the average user and really just results in more in-feed spam. I'm all about your need to make money, but maybe there is an easier way.

Maybe charging for the creation of Facebook pages? As someone who owns a few, I can definitely say it wouldn't be worth it to me, but perhaps it would make the feature more distinct and thus more worthwhile to brands who use it as a form of advertising / customer awareness.

[dbtlr]

Starting to believe in the power of HAML/Jade

I've long fought against the use of HTML abstraction language like HAML and more recently Jade, however I think I'm starting to give in. In my new pet project at nodrew.com I've decided to throw away some long held beliefs and try a few new things. In this I am trying Node.js, Express.js, Mongo, Backbone.js, Jade and Stylus. My goal thus far has been to build a site the generates itself from your other social network feeds, using Javascript to provide most of the templating and processing. 

On the client side, I'm using Backbone's (Underscore's) template system for simplicity. However, on the server side I decided to go with Jade. The main reason behind this, beside trying something new, is because of the simple fact, that this site has very few pages generated by the server side and the markup is very limited. This made it a very good target to test out this sort of system. In doing this, I have inadvertently opened myself to a whole new ideal though; markup should be abstracted, because it forces it to be compiled, which in turn enforces that the markup is correct.

More to the point, it allows me to treat the markup as source code, which makes me less self-conscious about the outputted HTML tabbing. In truth, this shouldn't be a concern, as who isn't looking at source code through an inspector these days anyway, regardless, it is something I spend too much time concerning myself with. I'm starting to enjoy the fact that the HTML itself is simply a byproduct of code, as opposed to the code itself.

While the syntax itself has been a little difficult to get used to, several years of working with YAML has made the idea of space delimited languages second nature. I'm still not 100% sold on this for heavy markup sites, however I'm finally intrigued by the idea. 

I'll have to try this on another larger product to find out for sure.

[thefyrechief-deactivated2013110]

This about covers it I think.