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Get a CSV list of all movies in your Vudu video account
I’ve been going through my physical DVD collection and getting rid of discs if I have a digital copy. My primary digital provider is Vudu, who makes this practically impossible to do easily — there is no way to get a list of your movies and the movie list isn’t easily searchable because it only shows poster images, not titles.
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Microsoft Violates Customer Privacy For Using Too Much Unlimited
Over on Microsoft’s OneDrive blog, they announce that they’re ending unlimited storage. People are upset[1], but I think they’re missing a larger issue.
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Why, Microsoft, Why?
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Logo Design for Fun and Profit
How did I miss THIS:
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ORM, ORLY
I stayed up late last night hand-rolling an ORM for python. It was especially fun because the entire time I kept thinking “why are you doing this, this basically exists, why are you doing this, nooooooooooo you should stop now before it is too late”.
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Where is my sub box?
Youtube got rid of the only thing that made it remotely usable, the unwatched subscription page (youtube.com/my_subscriptions).
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I Blame Apple
Remember scrollbars? Like, when they were there, you used to be able to know that and see them so you could use them? I miss that.
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In Which I Complain About APIs
Working with Google APIs is an awful, awful experience. About every step of it is broken and overly complicated and annoying. Everything we do to try to make our site simpler or easier to use makes things WORSE and more complicated.
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Social Networks, Please Steal My Idea
One of the major flaws of G+ and… well, every social network… is not handling the case of a user re-visiting after a short period of time. You end up seeing content you are very likely to have already seen, and practically nothing of interest.
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Elsewhere, other elses
Else clauses on loops? What a country!
Software Engineer at Google