Tumblr Backup
http://tumblr-backup.fugiman.com/
I heard people were panicking about Yahoo buying Tumblr, so I brought this back.
My biggest motivation to be the first to finish subbing Shingeki no Kyojin each week is the mass confusion it causes for everyone who streams anime.
“Wait, ‘Eoten’? What’s an ‘Eoten’? I thought they were called ‘Titan’s.”
Priceless.
Also Shingeki is great, go watch it.
Anonymous asked: Hey, is there any way you might consider making a private backup option available? Essentially, I'd like to back up my blog before deletion so obviously I'd rather not have it available in your archive. Just figured I'd try my luck asking you. Thanks!
I made it so users can’t view what’s been backed up. However, if they know your blog URL and that you’ve used the service it will still be publicly available. Also, it’s only backing up what you’ve publicly posted so privacy shouldn’t be a huge concern.
VA==65731089732bGl2ZXMh: Apathy and refunds are more dangerous than Piracy.
I think I can safely say that Super Meat Boy has been pirated at least 200,000 times. We are closing in on 2 million sales and assuming a 10% piracy to sales ratio does not seem unreasonable. As a forward thinking developer who exists in the present, I realize and accept that a pirated copy of…
A great read on how customer satisfaction is more important than DRM
Anonymous asked: Is your tumblr backup site no longer in use? ^^
Fixed
Hide Notifications by Post
Earlier today, NotASenator expressed his displeasure with Tumblr’s interface stating that he should be able to hide notifications for specific posts. I figured that Missing-E was already hooked into Tumblr pretty well, and from my earlier modding attempt I knew my way around the codebase, so why not try to grant NAS’s wish? Clarification: NAS stated that he shouldn’t have to install an extension to provide such basic functionality, and I agree. But why not fix it if I can? :)
Adding the options pane was rather easy, as I already dealt with that sort of thing in my last mod. This time though, I was adding an entire section and not just one small feature. The back-end code wasn’t much different, but I’m rather terrible at front-end design. I don’t have an icon and the table needs some work. Hopefully Cutlerish can deal with that :)
On the dashboard, it is really simple. “Block” has been renamed to “Block user”, and “Block notes” has been added. Clicking “block notes” will remove any notification related to that post from the page, and save it in your settings.
So there it is, a very simple mod that will hopefully make life easier for some people :) Unfortunately, I haven’t tested it enough to feel comfortable pushing this to Cutlerish yet, and I’m leaving for MAGFest in 4 hours, so this won’t be leaving my hands until Monday at the earliest :( Though, if anybody wants to test a dev build, let me know what browser you are using and I’ll send you a copy :)
EDIT: Since people seem to keep finding this post somehow (Google?), I’ve posted a follow up here.
Oh people are reblogging this again? Guess I should go make it work after all of Tumblr’s changes.
(via churrocigar)
How to pass an open-note midterm. ~75 pages of notes, pages from the text book, and sample code.
Commission I did of Lisbeth from Sword Art Online. I dig her more than Asuna!
I love Asuna, but you gotta respect yo support classes.
(Source: montiray)
Bugs? THOSE ARE FEATURES!
Minecraft Marathon Website
The 2013 Minecraft Marathon is about to kick off with a new website I designed using Minecraft.
I worked with marathon organizer Marc Watson to figure out what the most essential parts of the design were. We both agreed that most gaming marathon sites had terrible user interfaces, and I was convinced that I could improve the fundraising numbers with a better design.
Around the time that Marc approached me to work on the site, I saw some photos of the Galeria Adriana Varejão in Brazil (see above), and came up with the idea of the most important element on the page, the livestream video, rising out of the landscape as a kind of architectural element.
I started playing around with designs that looked kind of Minecraft-y, and then eventually decided to try and create the site itself using Minecraft. Here’s how we pulled it off:
- I started with wireframes - I knew that the Twitch.tv livestream was 640px by 360px, which is a 16x9 ratio. That gave me a starting point - the “screen” in our Minecraft world would be 16 blocks wide by 9 blocks tall. More importantly, it also served as a kind of Rosetta Stone that would let me convert blocks to pixels and build an easy 960px grid in Minecraft - one block is 40 pixels.
- Drew Rios helped me build the landscape in Minecraft and clear away the “cliff” that the site content sits on. At one point Drew got the bright idea to hasten our clearing efforts with a controlled burn of the surrounding trees, and nearly started a fire that burned down our entire website.
- Once we had the Minecraft world all set up, We used Eric Haines’ Mineways to export it to a .obj, which we were able to import to Cinema4D. We set up a lighting studio, added the little pig, and textured everything. Then after a quick thirty minute render, I had an image I could bring into Photoshop.
The rest of the site is pretty straightforward - it’s built with Wordpress and has a couple of hideous plugins running the donations and live chat. The whole thing is hosted by MCProhosting. The marathon will kick off in just a few hours - here’s hoping it stays up!
Max did an excellent job on the website design, it’s a shame the plugins ruined the aesthetics :(
