Pas de Deux

What you can do with two pieces of fabric and twelve fans. Truly magnificent!

Moving to Octopress

I’ve been looking for another “platform” for this site for some time now. Octopress looked very interesting but I did not see how to deploy the generated site to my webhost, since I’m only able to use FTP to get the files on there. Some time ago I came across git-ftp however, which does exactly what I want: based on the last git commit it will only FTP the changed files (I’ve written about it here). I’ve now made some changes to the rake file to automagically FTP the changed files to my webhost when I deploy, apart from committing and pushing the files to a git repository.

So, now I’m on Octopress. Of course I have to change the looks, as this is still the default theme, which is way to dark for my taste. Time to dive into SASS!

Test

This is a test, to test the atom feed.

The backwards bike

You’d think riding a bike is a no-brainer?

(via Kottke)

Chopsy

Making a puppet is awesome, but making it do this? Incredible!

Another Falcon landing video

Another video of the Falcon rocket trying to land on the barge.

Apparently the system is overcorrecting because of static friction in a valve resulting in a slow response of the engine.

Falcon landing

This is awesome! To bad it did not work entirely, but I’m sure they’ll get there next time.

Bittorrent Sync

WTF? I was very pleased with Bittorrent Sync, syncing several folders on my MBP, iMac, and my daughters MBPs. I installed it on an old PowerPC Mac mini server running Ubuntu, to have my own private “cloud”. Unfortunately Bittorrent decided to stop development for the PowerPC platform. Now I have to go look for a “new” Mac mini, or another machine with an Intel processor…

New Lensbaby

Lensbaby unveiled their new “baby”, the Velvet 56. You can see it here. Man, this looks nice. But $500? Bit steep for me.

Importing my old blog part 2

A couple of weeks ago I decided to start importing my old blog. Exporting from Wordpress was easy. Then came the hard part: I had to split the one single XML file into hundreds of smaller files converting them to Markdown in the mean time. Luckily with some XSLT magic I managed to do just that. So now this site has all the old posts from the old site. Onto removing the old Wordpress site!

In the mean time I’m trying to use a different tool to upload new content to the webserver. This site is running on a shared hosting server. I only have FTP access to it, no SSH. The content of this site is maintained in a Git repository. Until now I used Hazel to upload the changed files using FTP. Recently I came across a tool that is using Git and FTP to determine which files need to be uploaded, called git-ftp. I had to do some things first, getting the local git repository clean, and removing some test files. A first test shows it is working. This post is the first one to be uploaded in the new way. I hope it works, fingers crossed!