I don’t know if anyone remembers Director but that used to be Macromedia and then became Adobe. Just quit and go to art school and I studied interactive multimedia there and got heavily into the design side but never stopped coding-even my interactive design projects were all based on Director. I just realized in that moment that I probably wasn’t going to get a computer science degree, so I went to art school. In my second year, I withdrew from Calc2 and that was a required class. I went to school originally for Comp Sci after high school. It was the dawn of the web and things were not pretty at the time and that led me wanting to make prettier web pages and studying CSS more deeply. I’m sorry, not the Web – the Internet, because the Web wasn’t really in existence until my later years of high school, and that’s when I got into building web pages. All through high school I ran a BBS and I spent a lot of time on Gopher and just working around the Web and Linux and having fun. Instantly, as soon as I had my fingers on a keyboard, this kind of obsession with making computers do cool things instantly began.Īlexis: I guess it’s a little misleading for me to start by asking you that question since you were also very firmly in the design side of things, especially early on, right?īrett: See, that’s a part of the story. Choices were limited back then or functionality was limited, but soon after you could program Lego with Logo and make robots and things, and that’s where it all started.
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I was really fascinated with the idea of providing a series of commands that made something happen. I figured out a little bit of BASIC and a little bit of Logo, and King’s Quest I and Jumpman, and got really into making computers do things. He basically just let us play with it whenever he wasn’t doing drafting or spreadsheets.
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How did you first start programming?īrett: My dad brought home a PC junior – that would have been ’83 or ’84 – and I was six at the time. Both of them are over at esn.fm now.Īlexis: Anyway, let’s start from the beginning. That’s with Christina Warren and it’s really fun. We never know what we’re going to talk about when we sit down.īrett: We’ll brainstorm for about five minutes before we start recording, whatever pops in our head, and just talk about it. It’s more pop culture and completely 100% random.
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I know it still has some issues, especially with images within links, but it sure can come in handy.Alexis: Yeah, 40 episodes in a couple of days is not something I regret, I tell you.īrett: I would say that Overtired is almost a different audience.
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This makes it usable in any web application, in addition to the main website and its command line tool (see the API docs on one of the Marky pages). It also highlights the fact that Marky can return JSON (with a JSONP wrapper if called with callback=?). I made it opt-in on my site, but there are some bookmarklets on the Marky website for doing it anywhere. You can, of course, just drag a url to the notes list and hold down Option to run Readability and Markdownify on any article, but I figured I’d make it really easy 1.
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Clicking this - assuming you have nvALT installed - will use Marky to generate the Markdown version as an nvALT url that will execute itself automatically and… long story short, it adds a Markdownified version of the post straight to nvALT. Clicking it will turn on “nvALT” links next to “” for every post, both on the index pages and on s. If you look under the little gear icon in the upper right of this site, you’ll now see an “Add to nvALT links” option.
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I got bored with the idea of writing a generator for it, so I hacked a workaround that turned into something quite different from the original objective.
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I was considering adding a feature to Jekyll that would let me provide “.txt” links that return Markdown versions of posts the way that MacDrifter’s Pelican install does and I’m pretty sure Gruber used to.