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So much good. they had me just for the alt-tab, but v1.1 is epic. Markdown compose!





http://www.boxyapp.co/






 

 

What's worse than deprecated or not ready yet?

Deprecated *AND* not ready yet.









 

I'd happily use this instead of Postmortem.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotwash






 

If you're considering influence peddling via NetPAC you should at least know who gains...


https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//publicpolicy/doc/NETPAC-Contributions-...






 

 

 

My latest step in my *Borgmon@Home* project.

https://rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z109-eagle/

I think I already saved the 9 this cost by adjusting our laundry schedule to hit better ToU rates and tracking down some vampire loads.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6242284384095970257/6242284386346022354?...






 

Anyone have a contact at npr.org?

Their pages are generating invalid Content-Type headers:

Content-Type: text/html;;charset=UTF-8

Fixing on our end, but someone should let them know..









 

Reposting this in the wake of the current Nest thermostat die-off. Customers respond really well when you

- Admit that you made a mistake
- And try to make things right.

I hope our friends at Nest invest in a similar response.


https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php






 

I have a dvd rip of a VHS transfer of some old Sun (we put the dot in .com) internet promotional clips.

You can see some of them over here:

http://planet-rla.com/digital-journey-2/

Happy to share if anyone wants




https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239084702831613217/6239084706355357970?...






 

 

If you want more than 10 days of Nest data you're gonna have to send your creds to a shady guy named _WebPirate_


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6236206815904801937/6236206812873308466?...






 

New version of auth-refresh is out. Uses the new glogin / gcert command line commands to save you time every day.


https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/macroadwarrior-guide/XRCmHEZGOac/ICNZ-0W5AgAJ






 

The internet has all the answers



http://style.org/unladenswallow/






 

Now cards aggressively target when I switch to hl=en-UK to get the British voice for TTS


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6219438267743132305/6219438269857772130?...






 

Anyone know the Google-wide record for most reviewers on a CL?

I think someone's trying to break it...










 


It's not just me.

@112530828667788492083 can we please get a new design that has the destination adjacent to the POST button?

Invest in some eye tracking if you need to; but it's fairly obvious that people are not seeing the destination for their posts.








 

Missed this announcement; but I'm really happy to see that we're operating in this space.

Also, I want a few of these.



http://www.aopen.com/eu/aopen-collaborating-with-google-on-new-retail-technology






 

 

Uhhhhh, how would I have been able to influence this decision?

Backgound: we still need something like this to render snippets for sharing URLs to G+. Well, unless search wants to provide a low latency API/service to render a webpage with javascript and all that that.



http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html






 

A great read, but they missed out on another big issue - tons of content is semi-private and will be lost forever.



http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/?single_page=tr...






 

Here's a 30 day challenge.

Only consume Youtube and Play Music content in a language you barely know.

This is how much of the world interacts with our products.

All of a sudden you understand why lyric videos are so popular on Youtube. It also explains weird comments on G+ from people that are just playing around with English.

I've been doing something like that for a few days. It's eye opening.

Oh and if you're interested in music discovery from Suisse Romande see the link below.


https://www.youtube.com/user/LesReperagesCouleur3






 

about vaporwave -- somehow I missed this trend...

oh, and much A E S T H E T I C



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM






 

Rolling down 580 and Bus #37 is rattling on each bump and making it hard to even type this message. Is it time for some upgraded shocks?










 

So maybe it's just me, but I've misposted to the wrong target multiple times in the past week. I think it's because I'm used to the send-arrow being right next to the audience.

With Tau the Post button is on the bottom, thus my eye doesn't cross the default audience.

I thought that privacy had a requirement that the send be right next to the post button for exactly this reason.

cc +105287604880515191722 / +111378387414156670233 / +112530828667788492083









 

Kryptonite for fixjsstyle

* @param {!Element|null} card Card element.









 

Circles and People still matter

So Bindu just announced that she was limiting comments to Extended Circles (again) due to trolling and creepers. -(She deleted the post after a few hours..)- It's actually there, I just missed it.. (thanks Amber!)



https://plus.google.com/115989323496360706014






 

Never thought you'd see the day..

Oh and for those unfamiliar - the trippy logo is Camelia. Can you see the P6? Now you can...



http://perl6releasetalk.ticketleap.com/perl-tech-talk/details






 

Blast from the past..

- "Who gets to see this" was a much better way of telling people what's going on. (Even if 'Twitter' wasn't really a thing.
- Google Me? Google You?




https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0B6u4AdjA8gX8TnVzeWFONVUybzA/view






 

Juror PII in Alameda County is at risk from POODLE, FREAK, and LOGJAM attacks.

Chrome and Firefox refuse to connect. Safari is A-OK.

Of course this blacklisting is causing IT Admins grief. Glad I don't have to admin crap products with embedded ssl stacks..

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/o3vZD-Mg2Ic



https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ejuror.alameda.courts.ca.gov






 

*Faster than the speed of TAP*

Fixing a breakage before TAP found it....

I'd say something about the TAP Barrier....



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier






 

Glad to see a new major tenant in Oakland. Still think it would've been a super place for Google. Alas alas..


http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-will-open-East-Bay-HQ-in-Oakland-s-Sears-6523178.php






 

*Own goal*

Happy to see our passionate users take things into their own hands, but the writing is on the wall...

I guess I shouldn't be surprised we never really gave Anne Beuttenmueller and the rest of the Ingress team a reason to stay. Ingress users are super passionate G+ addicts. I don't want to lose them.



https://plus.google.com/104895861304489440774/posts/Z4hf94sn8YP






 

Let's see if changing the lights will make our workplace more efficient... Oh wait.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect






 

Memegen Distiller-like integration?  No.







 

A QA engineer walks into a bar and orders a beer. Orders a beer. Orders 2147483647 beers. Orders -1 beers. Orders no beers. Orders a lizard. Orders '); DROP TABLE orders;. Orders sfdelknesv. Orders.

I rarely go to the DNA Lounge these days, but I happily receive their weekly newsletter just for the bad jokes.



http://www.dnalounge.com/






 

Installed the OnHub with it's quite large -wallwart- power supply.

The Airport Extreme I replaced had this built-in and had an AC power cord.

I have mixed feelings

- Wall warts are ugly and don't play well with power strips.

but...

- I can probably use a passive PoE injector/splitter to run everything over a single cable.

Anyone tried this? Especially with a teeny splitter that could squeeze into the enclosure?

[And then I just need a power strip with 12v and 5v outputs....]


https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6246478?hl=en






 

Is there an internal tool that analyzes http logs? Referers, IPs, query terms, all that?

Sure I can set up a bunch of dremel queries and contour reports. But it's gotten to the point where I'm feeling nostalgic for WebTrends. That's saying a lot since I remember that WebTrends sucked pretty bad...



https://plus.google.com/+webtrends






 

Today's inspiration honors the end of Malika's internship on the ZikZak project.

For your weekend perfcrastinating you'll find the original dystopian, cyberpunk pilot for _20 Minutes into the Future_ aired on Channel 4 in 1985.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRy1oE81dS4






 

Has anyone written personal puppet configs?

I'm about to the point where it might be useful what with openvpn, bagpipe, sshfs, prodaccess, autossh, adb port forwarding and a bazillion gnubby touches.










 

*An update on UrlBuilder*

It's finally gone. The effort to remove UrlBuilder started 8 years ago. I started migrating the last remaining bits in June. 43 CLs later and the task is complete.

https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UrlBuilderMustDie



https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UrlBuilderMustDie






 

Android Police noticed.

It's launched at 100% so I'm not sure why they say it's only on for a certain users. Will investigate.


http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/09/08/google-is-testing-proper-post-sharing-to-apps-in-google-for-...






 

Today's inspiration is brought to you by the Nintendo Power Glove


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1CDSP7FRk






 

*Share all the G+ Post Links on Android*

A long time ago the deciders decided that G+ would *not* share Google+ post links the standard Android way. Instead you got a Copy Link menu item which required you to manually switch apps, often killing off the G+ app on low memory devices.

So we fixed the glitch.

As of yesterday 'Share link' replaces 'Link' when viewing a post. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Pocket, Hangouts, Flipboard or Keep. Share a link from consumer G+ to Corp G+. Or even launch Barcode reader and make a QR code. And when you're done, press the back button and you'll return to where you started.

Moral of the story: don't fight the platform. Use it. Rely on what people know instead of substituting your own custom thing. Ecosystems > Walled Gardens.



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6189564056792138865/6189564059411663874?...






 

Looking for funky, but Wahlberg's not your style? Here you go.

Sadly it'll probably be taken down before I get off this shuttle. Sorely tempted.




http://www.citypages.com/music/watch-prince-debut-purple-rain-at-first-ave-before-his-lawyers-take-i...






 

500k Zombie Slayer badge achieved.

While refactoring some code I came across the remnants of the Mercury Chat project. 60k LoC and a dozen CLs later....









 

Who's responsible for updating Android Support libraries in google3? There are a bunch that are missing (customtabs, recommendation-app, percent, etc.)

Would be nice to have this as part of the release process. It also would be good to get the naming sync'd up...


https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html






 

Today's inspiration prompted by +115146860555867196292 / +100847248655489858102 / +118393036391325867874

Click click click click click!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-qTCrNpi44