Using user stylesheets to highlight links to PDFs or other media, rel=”nofollow”, etc

Posted by Tom on March 25th, 2008 — in CSS, Web

Browsers allow you to define your own stylesheet that’s applied to every page you visit. For the longest time I’ve wondered why anyone would ever want this feature. I figured it would be useful for people with poor vision or other disabilities and that was about it.

But combined with some neat features of CSS, one [...]

280 North, in the news

Posted by Tom on March 24th, 2008 — in 280 North, Startup, Y Combinator

Our new startup company, 280 North, has been covered by a few tech news sites and blogs over the past couple weeks, along with some of our fellow Y Combinator startups:

TechCrunch VentureBeat Don Dodge

Now, I just have to get on Valleywag and I can die happy.

Using command line tools to detect the most frequent words in a file

Posted by Tom on March 18th, 2008 — in Command line, Linux, Programming

Antonio Cangiano wrote a post about “Using Python to detect the most frequent words in a file“. It’s a nice summary of how to do it in Python, but (nearly) the same thing can be accomplished by stringing together a few standard command line tools.

I’m no command line ninja, but I’d like to think I [...]



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