Scott Watermasysk

Jan 13

Three Chrome Extensions For Twitter

I prefer using the the browser version of Twitter over native applications.

Here are three chrome extensions that make this experience much better:

  1. ParrotFish by Embedly. See a preview of just about any link/image/etc without leaving your stream.
  2. Tweet Filter. As the name suggests, this extension makes it easy to exclude tweets or people matching a pattern.
  3. Buffer for Chrome. I am a big fan of Buffer and this extension makes it easy to access Buffer from with in Twitter (and any other website).

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Jun 16

ImageOptim -

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

Crappy People -

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

Jun 10

Javascript Grid Bookmarklets -

Ever want to quickly see a grid overlay for 960.gs or Blueprint?

Jun 06

Kudos to Namecheap for a major price drop. I can now finally kick Godaddy completely to the curb. I moved most of my domains to Namecheap a couple of months ago, but at the time their .me domain prices were still to steep for me…but not anymore. The entire Namecheap process is vastly superior to Godaddy. I highly recommend them when you are in the market for your next domain.

Kudos to Namecheap for a major price drop. I can now finally kick Godaddy completely to the curb.

I moved most of my domains to Namecheap a couple of months ago, but at the time their .me domain prices were still to steep for me…but not anymore.

The entire Namecheap process is vastly superior to Godaddy. I highly recommend them when you are in the market for your next domain.

If you're going to work...work hard

Being right doesn't always have to be the goal

May 28

Speeding up Rails startup time -

If you are using RVM, you should definetly give this a shot. I saw an almost 50% improvement in my start up time on rails.

Looks like some great work.

Nov 22

Installing PostgreSQL 8 via HomeBrew

The PostgreSQL formula for homebrew has already been updated to version 9.

Thankfully, with a little help from google, I found Adam Vandenberg’s 8.4 formula.

brew update
brew install http://github.com/adamv/homebrew/raw/versions/Library/Formula/postgresql8.rb

Sep 17

The cult of busy -

…people who are always busy are time poor. They have a time shortage. They have time debt. They are either trying to do too much, or they aren’t doing what they’re doing very well.