Aaron Parecki

The top trending topic on Twitter the other day was #twitterpornname. This seemingly innocent meme prompts you to find your Twitter porn name by combining the name of your first pet with the street you grew up on, or some variation. Thousands of people began shouting out this information on their Twitter profiles.

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I've had a bit of fun using MediaWiki to power a few websites! Check out cyborganthropology.com, caseorganic.com/wiki, and indiewebcamp.com for a few examples. A default install of MediaWiki looks like wikipedia.org, and you probably don't want your website to look like that. However, MediaWiki is a powerful platform for building your site, even if it's just being edited by one person!

What is Career Pathways?

Introduction

A computer program generated the image you see above. There were two goals: create a program that can generate pieces of artwork which will look different every time it is run. The generated art should not look obviously like it came from a computer at first glance. There are five steps to creating the above piece.

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MediaWiki Skin

Due to some significant changes to the Wordpress authentication mechanism, my original IMAP Authentication plugin stopped working in version 2.7.1. I have updated the plugin to work in 2.7.1. The only difference is that users are no longer automatically created in Wordpress if they have a valid IMAP account. I will try to add that back in soon, but for now this will do.

UPDATE

Why, you ask?

I keep seeing people writing scripts that embed their Twitter feed into their websites. The "easy" way is to use Javascript, which means you don't need to have PHP installed on your server. Doing it this way means your tweets will not be visible to visitors with Javascript disabled.