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Unofficial daily PPA for Scribes

06/07/2011 in digital life | No comments

When it comes to coding, Scribes is my editor of choice. So, this morning it wasn’t good news when Scribes author Lateef Alabi-Oki (Mystilleef) announced on twitter: « I haven’t found a way to build deb packages or update the Ubuntu PPA from Fedora. So Scribes’ Ubuntu PPA is going to be in a rot :-( »

Luckily, Launchpad provides build recipes, an easy way to set up an automated daily build, given a source code branch and a branch with Debian packaging. Even though I have no experience with Debian packaging, I was able to make a working recipe using the official Ubuntu packaging branch and set up a PPA.

So, if you want to try out the latest and greatest Scribes, you can use my Unofficial daily builds of Scribes:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tawmas/scribes-unofficial-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install scribes

If you are upgrading from Mystilleef’s no longer maintained daily PPA, you will need to remove and reinstall Scribes, as the version numbering scheme I adopted is not compatible.

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Filtering away the Facebook Send button

02/05/2011 in digital life | No comments

The recently introduced Send button, just like the original Like button, gives Facebook the ability to track the web pages you visit while being logged in to their site. Since I don’t like to surrender this kind of information, I chose to filter away the Like and Send buttons.

Back when the Like button was launched, several bloggers I follow published the regular expression they used to filter it. Since none of them seems to have posted an updated regular expression to deal with the Send button as well, I’m posting mine, as a reminder to myself.

/https?:\/\/([^/]*)\.facebook\.com\/(plugins|widgets)\/(like|send).*

You can use it with Adblock or a wealth of other filtering software.

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