Author Archives: Benjamin Golub

FF To Go Minor Updates

FF To Go has had a number of (minor) updates.  Here goes:
Fill the page - help the hiders
Some of you hide a lot.  I’m starting to hide more often too.  But FF To Go was still doing just one call to the FriendFeed API for entries.  If that one call resulted in mostly hidden entries [...]

Use FF To Go on an iPhone? Consider the Official Version

I built FF To Go knowing that it was only a matter of time before FriendFeed would build an official mobile FriendFeed experience.  So when FriendFeed announced an iPhone friendly FriendFeed I wasn’t shocked nor saddened.
FF To Go wasn’t really built for iPhone users; it was built for everyone else.  See the iPhone supports Javascript [...]

Higher Education Isn’t Worthless

Megen and I had traditional afternoon tea yesterday and couldn’t help overhearing an infuriating conversation coming from the table next to us.  The table consisted of a mother and her daughter (the daughter was likely in her 20s) and another woman.  They were discussing trivial things like purchasing new sofas and how filling the scones [...]

FF To Go: Editable Comments

People have been asking for this feature to be added to FF To Go but I wasn’t really happy with any of the solutions I came up with.  Ideally there would be a call I could make to the FriendFeed API to get the body of a comment but that does not exist.  In the [...]

I’m A Believer; 100% Git

Distributed revision control systems are all the rage.  I used to use Bazaar (bzr) for everything; it’s easy to get up and running with a very low barrier to entry especially for those coming from systems like Subversion (svn).  I really had absolutely no problems with bzr but decided to give Git a try when [...]