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Jeff Atwood

5:00 AM

building...

The Renamed Exception

I never heard back if the XMPP bridge qualifies for listing on StackApps. @RebeccaChernoff or @JeffAtwood, thoughts?

drachenstern

Ok, booting laptop

Rebecca Chernoff

@JeffAtwood, there are some on there already, they're just listed under [app] since they needed a required tag.

badp

@JeffAtwood on it. Done.

Tim Stone

Hmm, @Jin is going to break my winning streak, damn. I should have held off starting a new match until I finished these other games. ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

5:02 AM

Oy. I can't even keep up with WwF, why would you want to distract me more with your silly games?!

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff They're awesome?

Jeff Atwood

ok one sec have to build again

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood it's ok, forming my post in the first part to get something up there.

Rebecca Chernoff

> If you've created an application or library/wrapper for use on the Stack Exchange network, that's fantastic!

@TheRenamedException you tell me.

Jeff Atwood

stackapps.com/?tab=scripts

The Renamed Exception

5:06 AM

Sounds like a "yes" to me :-)

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff but it doesn't use the api :\

badp

I guess scripts don't get to have the app store feeling. Oh well! At least that tab is currently mine. All mine.

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff I'll post the XMPP bridge tomorrow. Thanks!

Goodnight everyone

drachenstern

@badp I'm working on that :p

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern where did I say "uses the api" there? Did you forget our talk about this earlier? (;

Tim Stone

5:07 AM

@badp Put on your diamond hat and claim the hill.

Trufa

@JeffAtwood that is so cool :)

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff I did not, and I'm glad for your clarification earlier. I was just voicing the recurring complaint ;)

Jeff Atwood

I think we'll make it use the same template as libraries and apps, so you can use the same format

that just isn't in quite yet

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern Well, the whole idea is to get rid of the complaint/confusion @drachenstern.

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff ;) :p

Jeff Atwood

5:09 AM

ok so I updated /faq and all the new user alerts on stackapps to make it clear that we allow scripts there

I guess I'll start emailing all the meta question owners.. for people that posted scripts on meta.so

badp

stackapps.com/tags/script/info ← 2 free reps! get 'em!

Trufa

@JeffAtwood I actually tried to log in in inconito mode in chrome (no extensions) and still no working, I will try a little harder to figure out whats happening and post it on meta if not... thanks anyway

Rebecca Chernoff

Jeff Atwood

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/…

badp

@JeffAtwood if my script (= non standalone application) uses the API it's still a script I guess?

Jeff Atwood

5:10 AM

?

Rebecca Chernoff

I see redundancy @badp!

badp

@RebeccaChernoff Not really...

Jeff Atwood

that's up to you.. in my opinion, things that run as "add-ons" in the browser to enhance the site rather than replace the UI entirely are scripts

badp

@JeffAtwood A script it is then.

Tim Stone

Hmm, apparently my state is one of the lowest wireless taxers. Hooray.

Rebecca Chernoff

5:12 AM

The way I see it: app are things you use outside of SE sites themselves and script are things you use in your browser while you're on a SE site.

Tim Stone

More relatedly, I guess this means I should get on those userscript updates...

Rebecca Chernoff

@JeffAtwood There's also browser-enhancement and so-addon - lots of overlap with greasemonkey but there are some that don't overlap.

badp

@RebeccaChernoff tag syntax doesn't work cross site.

drachenstern

I seem to have misplaced the size for the thumbnail?

Rebecca Chernoff

144x119 off the top of my head, sec.

drachenstern

5:14 AM

Thumbnails should be 144 pixels wide, and 119 pixels tall and a PNG file (with extension). If no

found it

badp

so now that we're in definition phase

1

Q: Bring back pixelation! (a how-to)

Here's a user CSS file by myself to bring more pixelation awesomeness to Gaming. Chrome users can enjoy it with Personalized Web, use the following as the match URL: ^http://(meta\.)?gaming\.stackexchange\.com/.* There is a similar extension for Firefox and a built in tool for Opera users. T...

on-topic or off-topic for the script tag?

(I know, it's a stretch.)

Jeff Atwood

29

Q: SO-Site Bar (Minimalistic)

Download Source: http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-sites_minimal.user.js Description Greasemonkey script for linking the SO-Sites together. Jeff rightly pointed out that a mere clone of the footer-list takes up a bit too much space, so I thought this would eliminate that problem, or at leas...

feature-request status-completed community greasemonkey

that seems obsolete in the face of the multi-collider super-dropdown

drachenstern

Well regardless of the fact that @badp had two there ahead of me :p

0

Q: A way to keep the "user bar" on the top of the site stuck there ~ StickyBar

Screenshot / Code Snippet About Since people keep asking for a way to stick the userbar at the top of the screen, I'm working on a userscript to do so. Because of the way each site is fashioned and themed, various elements are in different places. So there are some parts that don't work ...

script user-script

badp

@drachenstern Taxonomist is SO Mine!

drachenstern

@badp haha!

I've got an idea for one other userscript, so I'm only in for two atm

First I need to get this one in good shape. And as is I already said I was going to bed 30 minutes ago

Jeff Atwood

5:20 AM

bed is for wusses

Jin

what's a bed?

2

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood except I can't convince you to write me paychecks so :\ :p (bah @ asking in the first place)

Tim Stone

@Jin I've heard it's something you sleep in, but I'm not sure what that means either.

drachenstern

[besides he has my email address if he really wanted to!]

@TimStone it's that thing that you sometimes find yourself doing in your office chair

Tim Stone

Ah, downtime.

drachenstern

5:22 AM

haha, thereyago

Rebecca Chernoff

@drachenstern haha

Tim Stone

To be fair (to me), I don't think I've fallen asleep in my chair in a while. I have unexpectedly found myself waking up several times though. Never been sure how that happens.

Rebecca Chernoff

> to be fair to Tim

does not compute.

Tim Stone

You might have an error in your language processing routine then. :P

Jin

i'm a polyphasic sleeper

Polyphasic sleep

Polyphasic sleep, a term coined by early 20th-century psychologist J.S. Szymanski, refers to the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period—usually more than two, in contrast to biphasic sleep (twice per day) or monophasic sleep (once per day). It does not imply any particular sleep schedule. The circadian rhythm disorder known as irregular sleep-wake syndrome is an example of polyphasic sleep in humans. Polyphasic sleep is common in many animals, and is believed to be the ancestral sleep state. The term polyphasic sleep, or often Uberman's sleep schedule, is also used by an on...

Trufa

5:25 AM

Good night to all!

badp

i'm on a deadline

Tim Stone

@Trufa G'night

drachenstern

So when will the template be applied to scripts for displaying? I want to make sure my template was correctly completed :(

Tim Stone

@Jin I think my sleep might be those white lines in the pie chart.

Trufa

@TimStone :)

badp

5:30 AM

MSO design

Jin

blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/02/…

drachenstern

Ok people, I should've been to sleep almost an hour ago. Gonna go trade a little sushi then I'm out.

Tim Stone

> EE is successful -- and the fanboys hate that. Get over it.

Huh, I never really considered them that successful.

Jeff Atwood

I stopped thinking about EE so long ago

Tim Stone

(not that it means that they aren't now, or weren't then, but I just never got that impression in my limited interaction with the site)

As an outsider looking in, I never said "Oh yeah, gimme a piece of that," heh.

Michael Petrotta

5:40 AM

I still miss Usenet, frankly. I love SO, but Usenet has a place in my heart.

Jin

so successful that "we recently banned experts-exchange.com at blekko after tallying our user's /spam votes and noting that experts-exchange was the #1 most disliked site on blekko." skrenta.com/2011/02/blekko_stackoverflow_better_pr.html

@MichaelPetrotta I loved Usenet for discussions. had many memorable flame wars..

Michael Petrotta

It had a culture of professionalism that SO hasn't matched. That's another name for elitism, but hey.

Jin

@MichaelPetrotta i spent a lot of time in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg

Tim Stone

I'm not....experienced enough to have used Usenet, seems I may have missed out. :P

Michael Petrotta

It will never happen again. nostalgia

This makes me happier than it has any right to.
I think it tingles my OCD tendencies.

Tim Stone

5:46 AM

Heheh :D

badp

BTW FUSE is horribly undocumented

Jeff Atwood

could he do fizzbuzz?

Michael Petrotta

no, he could not. pretty much a deal killer.

he tried so hard though.

badp

I mean, this undocumented:

Michael Petrotta

amazing what you can make a do while do.

badp

5:52 AM

sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/…

Tim Stone

@MichaelPetrotta Heh, we're about to do some interviews again...though thankfully I think I get to sit this one out due to other things on my plate.

badp

This is the only place where I could find parameter names for the API.

Michael Petrotta

Thursday's guy looks more promising.

And I have, no joke, 10 phone screens to do this week and next.

And technically, I'm a developer.

Tim Stone

@badp Ouch, that is bad. :/

badp

@Jeff I'm going to sleep shortly, feel free to continue delaying the diamond updating :P

Jeff Atwood

5:56 AM

?

oh, I have to wait to hear back from Robert before I do that.. he sends his love in an email care package first

Tim Stone

@MichaelPetrotta Ah, people are so much fun on the phone, heh.

Rebecca Chernoff

@JeffAtwood You might want to look again. (:

Michael Petrotta

Phones exhibit a notable lack of whiteboard space.

@Tim: do you use a canned service for that, or something you rolled yourself?

#veryinterested

Time for bed, nearly. Night all.

Tim Stone

(Sorry, I hate doing that, but I don't want to get myself into a bind on that one, heh)

G'night.

Michael Petrotta

@Tim: I get it, I do the same.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Tim Stone

6:10 AM

No problem, if you want to hear more about it sometime, I'd be happy to share the experiences somehow.

Jeff Atwood

@badp ok the magic has happened

Tim Stone

Diamondification complete!

golf claps

badp

@JeffAtwood holy crap, the mod flag browser is awesome.

Rebecca Chernoff

Oh no. The monster has been unleashed? |:

Oops, did I say that out loud? (;

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Yeah, he was released from his mortgage a few moments ago.

(that doesn't make perfect sense, but I was struggling to make fun of the typo)

Rebecca Chernoff

6:21 AM

What typo? ):

Tim Stone

We all see that pencil!

badp

Tim Stone

TERRIBAD? :D

badp

@TimStone That field is sanitized too :P

Tim Stone

Oh, hahah.

Where Americans silently accept the manifest superiority of GMT+1.

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