Christmas Name Drawing Generator

Every year my in-laws do the whole “drawing names” thing at Christmas, where each person draws one other person and buys a gift for them.  Nearly as often, there’s drama about it.  Someone complains about “always” getting someone else.  Someone gets themself (that was me this year). I decided to remove the human element from […]

Read More

Cookie Clicker Countdown User Script

Over the past week or so I’ve been a little too obsessed with Cookie Clicker. It’s an awesome little JavaScript-based game and I can’t just leave it alone. I’m at a point in the game where it takes hours before I can buy the next item I’m looking for.  Just out of curiousity, I was […]

Read More

On Chrome and Hangout Extensions

Over the last couple weeks I’ve spent some time playing around with Chrome development and Google Hangout extensions.  Nothing revolutionary by any means but there were a couple interesting things I came across that I figured I’d share out. One thing I found slightly funny is that both Chrome extensions and Hangout extensions are JavaScript […]

Read More

PHP and the Twitter API v1.1

Note: This post was updated on March 4, 2021, to replace references to outdated code. I’d been using the relatively-awesome TwitterOAuth library by Abraham Williams for quite some time to handle interactions between my sites and Twitter’s REST API v1.  With Twitter having eliminated v1 of the API, I started looking into other options. It’s […]

Read More