I wrote a script that will allow you to have your friends entries (even locked ones, as long as you have permission to read them) emailed to you. (this will work on any RSS feed, including those requiring a password, but I wrote it specifically with LiveJournal in mind ( Read more... )

Updated 2007-06-25: This skin will now work on the new Vertigo scheme. However, keep an eye out on lj_nifty this week as I'm hoping to make a fairly big announcement. Stay tuned!

Today (as I write this), the new Vertigo site scheme was announced. The site scheme is pretty similar to Dystopia in terms of its structure, but different in terms of the links ( Read more... )

Thank you to everyone who voted. :) This last vote was even closer than the one before it -- 77 to 76 -- with only one vote breaking the tie. (I don't think I've ever seen a poll come that close!) Congratulations to nikolasco, our new lj_nifty maintainer. :)

As someone observed in the comments, the final tallies are so close together that we might as well have a run-off vote. So a run-off vote we shall have:

Poll

Vote through 11:59pm Eastern Time, Saturday, 10 March 2007. :)

EDIT: Voting is now closed! At the close of voting, the votes were 77-76 in favor of nikolasco.

Wow, so a week became a month, and a month became two months. Ooops? :)

A few months ago, I posted to this community to see who's interested in taking over as a maintainer. The community is incredibly low volume -- only about four entries sent to the moderation queue in the past two months -- that I think we'll be fine with just one maintainer ( Read more... )

So, I was bored at work and wrote a ruby script to make a histogram of friend's birthdays. It's pretty fugly and pipes out to gnuplot for the graphing, but hey. ( teh script )

I cast about for a while for a way to download more than one Scrapbook image at a time, and didn't manage to find anything.

So I threw together a wee Greasemonkey script that alters gallery links so they point to the images rather than HTML pages. This allows me to use a real downloader like DownThemAll to grab a gallery's worth of images at once ( Read more... )

In January 2002 -- five years ago! -- asciident was appointed maintainer of this community. Today, she's let us know that she's resigning from maintaining this community. I'd like to thank her for all her hard work in maintaining this community and keeping everything running smoothly. Thank you, Melissa ( Read more... )

As you're probably well aware, there were a few changes made to LJ Wednesday, including a major overhaul of the Update Journal (and Edit Journal Entry) pages. More than a few users didn't like the new changes.

Behold, I have created a GM script to bring the old Update Journal back from the dead.It's just javascript that moves the form elements ( Read more... )

For some time now, I've been playing with variations on the standard Livejournal user icon.¹ If you look at my reference pages, you can see hundreds of such icons made by myself and others, in a variety of themes. Now, I'm putting together an LJ Usericon Creator so that anyone can make their own customized usericon. (I generally use
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