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  1. Just finished making a video with my brother @thegreatsd, starring Katy Perry. Kind of. youtube.com/watch?v=hCxU65… 3:21 PM May 26th via Tweetbot for iOS
  2. @technoweenie Just get someone who wanted to start an SVN host to sue @defunkt for stealing his idea. Mr Fincher will appear soon after 3:07 PM May 17th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to technoweenie
  3. @chuckie7413 I'd be surprised if it didn't work at all, telecom engineers like fallbacks.. but there's a very good chance I'm wrong 11:01 AM May 15th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to chuckie7413
  4. @hydrofilm If they sell a "Brendan Gleeson burger", leave. 1:17 AM May 3rd via web in reply to hydrofilm
  5. @strava Exciting illustrated story-book version of the bug: imgur.com/a/9oYhp 1:07 AM May 3rd via web
  6. @strava the segment creator has been wonky for last ~day - selected bit of track doesn't match one segment is created? 12:56 AM May 3rd via web
  7. @alfredapp Indeed - easy - extension of "open github.com{query}" does what I want. (Nice example :D) 2:27 AM May 2nd via Twitterrific for Mac in reply to alfredapp
  8. @alfredapp with custom-search, is there a {rawquery} token, to take "gh user/repo" and open github.com/user/repo ? If not, extension \o/ 1:11 AM May 2nd via Twitterrific for Mac
  9. @joesteel @rbredow tried piep? It's similar, but created with streams in mind, and less escaping problems - gfxmonk.net/2012/03/28/why… 8:24 AM Apr 29th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to joesteel
  10. @francoisgfx pretty sure it's rgb ordered - there's a bit of test code commented at the end to check the loading (pngcanvas stuff) 5:22 AM Apr 26th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to francoisgfx
  11. @destraynor @drnic sure, but the bit of that sentence you ellipsified is a bit weird (create derivative work, modify, publicly display etc) 5:23 PM Apr 24th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to destraynor
  12. @Strava app.strava.com/api/v1/streams… is erroring (causing the ride-info page to never load) - something wonky happened with crop tool 5:37 AM Apr 23rd via web
  13. @rdegges heh, I just started on my first proper Django site today, and plan to host it on Heroku, so.. get to it :P 9:33 AM Apr 21st via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to rdegges
  14. @mikeseymour will >8-bit consumer displays (and content) appear any time soon. Similarly will 4K consumer nonsense still be 8bit? 7:15 PM Apr 20th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to mikeseymour
  15. @meken kernel-based ZBlur :D RSP used alpha version of it for Hunger Games, worked nicely 10:43 PM Apr 18th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to meken
  16. @meken what?! New Arrested Development series was announced at NAB...? That seems.. odd 8:28 AM Apr 18th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to meken
  17. @travisci Err, loading travis-ci.org in Chrome (latest version) is freezing the tab with 100% CPU usage (works fine in Safari) 5:33 AM Apr 18th via web