This post is a tutorial on how to migrate comments from JS-Kit Echo into Disqus using a Python script. Most importantly, I’ll show you how to recreate the reply structure of threaded comments and preserve that in the migration. As usual, I need to first ramble about the inconveniences that led me to write this (More…)
Yes, it’s that time of year again. I redesign my website out of sheer boredom. That, and the desire to test a few tricks I learned while redesigning the Science News site. The goal was a clean, text-driven look based on legible, flexible CSS and a bare minimum of PHP in the background. All of (More…)
Now that I’ve moved away from college–and my parents’ dumpling delivery radius–I need to fend for myself when it comes to food. Unfortunately, cooking is for sissies. Fortunately, cooking is an acceptable pastime if a man sticks to the following principles: 1. Never measure anything. 2. Avoid reading. 3. Be very impatient. 4. Use a (More…)