RE: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists

Some guys out there really are on crack imo (ooh, it’s all a conspiracy) … it’s not because Digg stopped a user his/her posts from hitting the homepage (due to violating some stuff) that it proves they have an auto-bury algorithm. Think about it: stopping a user from hitting the hp, merely is setting a …

Accessing data saved in the class property of DOM-elements with jQuery

Use of this plugin is not recommended anymore. Use data-* attributes and $.fn.data instead. This was a possible solution, a long time ago. A few weeks ago former colleague Jurriaan wrote a PrototypeJS extension to accessing data stored within classes of HTML elements. Basically it comes down to assigning extra classes (classes such as gender_male …

The history of Twitter

I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type something and …