Category Archives: geek

Squeeze more readable space out of Google Reader’s new layout

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jj

I am not happy with the removal of Google Reader social features. I really enjoyed discovering new feeds following people.

Anyway, I don’t mind the new look but it leaves too little readable space. A couple of years ago I blogged about how to use Firefox’s userContent.css to optimize the layout. Continue reading →

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Install PIL with Jpeg support on Ubuntu Oneiric 64bit

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Jj

I am posting this because it took me ages to figure out how to solve this one.

I could not get PIL to compile with JPEG, Zlib or freetype support on my virtualenv. I am using Ubuntu Oneiric Beta1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X220. That is a 64bits installation. Continue reading →

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Show http:// protocol in URL bar for Firefox 7+

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Jj

Firefox 7 beta was just rolled out yesterday to users on the Beta channel (that would include me). One of the various improvements and changes is that now Firefox follows Opera and Chrome in hiding the http:// protocol prefix from … Continue reading →

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Toda regla tiene una excepción? – La paradoja de la excepción

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jj

La paradoja de la excepción: Si toda regla tiene una excepción, entonces, la excepción a la regla “toda regla tiene una excepción” sería una regla sin excepciones. Por lo tanto, no toda regla tiene una excepción.

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Disqus coments UI

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jj

I really like Disqus comments service. But I wish they had a simple UI alternative, as I don’t want to show that much text/options in my screen. This is what it looks like by default: I would hide the “suscribe”, … Continue reading →

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Mogrify using too much memory

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Jj

I wanted to shrink pictures a folder with thousands of files. They were unnecessarily huge. So I made a script to resize them. Imagemagick’s mogrify takes all the RAM it can in the system to handle huge files, making the … Continue reading →

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Cosas nuevas en Firefox 4

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Jj

Hoy salió a la luz Firefox 4 y trae muchas cosas nuevas, entre las más importantes: * Soporte HTML5 * Motor Javascript más rápido * Firefox Sync * Tab panorama * Nuevo look * Complementos y temas que no necesitan … Continue reading →

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Magenta CSS

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jj

When setting a background color always set a foreground color Continue reading →

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Happy PI day!

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Jj

I’ve got to learn my decimals again, shame on me!

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Compare files in two directories

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Jj

This is how you do it: $ diff < (cd /path/one/ && find .)

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