Posted by Artem Russakovskii on December 20th, 2009 in
Tips,
Twitter
Ever since the introduction of the official Retweet button, I've wanted it to be a little more interactive. I usually want to add my 2 cents into the tweet I'm about to retweet but the default RT button just doesn't allow for it – Yes is the only option:
Troy's Twitter Script
Enter Troy's Twitter script for Firefox that I reviewed…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 24th, 2009 in
Programming,
Technology,
Tips
What Is This All About?
If you, like me, love StackOverflow, SuperUser, ServerFault – the community programming/software/sysadmin Q&A sites built by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood and you are an active member of these sites, you owe it to yourself to install this underappreciated and unadvertised greasemonkey script:
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 21st, 2009 in
C,
C Sharp,
C++,
CSS,
Databases,
Java,
JavaScript,
MySQL,
PHP,
Perl,
Programming,
Python,
Ruby
Updated: January 18th, 2010
Introduction
StackOverflow is an amazing site for coding questions. It was created by Joel Spolsky of joelonsoftware.com, Jeff Atwood of codinghorror.com, and some other incredibly smart guys who truly care about user experience. I have been a total fan of SO since it went mainstream and it's now a borderline addiction (you can…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 11th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Stuff,
Technology
Updated: October 6th, 2009
WTF
I don't know about you, but I'm incredibly sick of Facebook quizzes. Yeah, shit like this which occupies 90% of my news feed:
And to make matters worse, Facebook provides no means to block these quizzes and rid your profile of them forever. The only thing you can do is block each individual quiz. But just like weeds in your backyard, when you block one, three more rise…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 10th, 2009 in
My Favorites,
Stuff,
Technology,
Tutorials,
Twitter
Updated: September 27th, 2009
Introduction
Welcome to part 2 of the Essential Firefox Extensions And Tips – A Comprehensive Guide series. In this article I’m going to describe a number of time saving pragmatic extensions that make me a better, faster, more efficient browser user (browserer?).
Pragmatic Extensions
All-in-One Gestures introduces customizable gestures for all kinds of actions. To perform a gesture, hold the right (by default) button and move the mouse…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on March 17th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Technology,
Twitter
Updated: April 10th, 2009
Recently I read an article on the Six Revisions blog that discussed 10 seemingly simple improvements to the twitter interface. They included such things as nick autocomplete, mentions, groups, and more.
You could only dream about such twitter improvements… that is until you use the Troys Twitter script. Just perform the following steps and you will have the features I describe in this article. Here we…
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