There was an innocuous-seeming update to Wine a few days ago, and upon attempting to play the one game I have installed via Wine, Runic Games’ astonishingly awesome dungeon-crawler, Torchlight, I found it suddenly mute. Which is not really how I like to play it. So I was perturbed.

I was trying to mount a shared folder in an Arch Linux guest OS under VirtualBox and kept receiving the same enigmatic error.

The problem turned out to be, believe it or not, that the shared folder and the mount location had the same name.

Savorous, as well as killthe.net, is built on the Sinatra framework and served via Apache and the Passenger extension, with Rack somewhere in the middle.

In trying to expand and solidify my facility with Ruby and related things, as well as scratching my own itch, I’ve started a new project: Savorous.

Why Make It

The problem it’s meant to solve is filling in the missing data in feeds that only deliver bare links without the associated summary or meta-data. It’s made specifically with Delicious feeds in mind, but it could be any feed that is basically just a list of links.

Really rough, but easy to drop in and get working with something else, either as an external script or by integrating directly into a larger code base.

The code:

PHP: Gist 214887

Last week I spent a few minutes over lunch cleaning up the code behind killthe.net and posting the results to GitHub.

So it’s been awhile since I checked in with any HYDRAtweet news. Things are still going on in the background:

I feel it might be unfair to announce that I’m no longer using Habari without explaining why. There are several reasons, and I actually didn’t make the move away from Habari with the intent of solving them, either. It wasn’t a matter of ditching Habari for something better, but something different altogether.

I’ve been running my personal blog on Habari for over a year now and I haven’t liked it for a moment. I’ve liked it little enough that mostly it’s been ignored during that time. Finally I decided I needed to switch, and months later I’ve finally settled on something new, Scanty, “The blog that’s almost nothing”.

Because two people made quizzical remarks about using Twitter immediately after I cross-posted to Twitter and Facebook from Tweetdeck:

Twitter isn’t for everyone. I originally scoffed at the service and its name, and then I began using it to track conversations and buzz among tech luminaries. After adoption skyrocketed I found myself engaging in conversations with friends on Twitter as well, and that’s how I use it today.