Somebody stop me!
Well. Oops!
Just started yet another forum, lol. (more…)
IP.Board 3.2 – Change the Shortener to kwn.me
Well Invision Power Services have made some of the code in 3.2 different, it now uses their own URL Shortener – topic.to – as the shortener. Seeing as I run my own URL Shortener, I want to run it for my community. I’ve posted this tutorial before but IPS have changed some things, so I figured I’d create a new post.
Here’s how:
- Download the kwn.me IPB API files from here
- Unpack and Upload the “kwnme” folder into /admin/sources/classes/url/apis/
- Edit /admin/sources/classes/twitter/connect.php
- Find on line 220:
$data = $shorten->shorten( $url, IPS_URL_SHORTEN_SERVICE ); - Replace with:
$data = $shorten->shorten( $url, 'kwnme');
(if you want to change to bit.ly, just change ‘kwnme’ to ‘bitly’)
Anti-Social
Well, I didn’t think it was possible for me to be more anti-social than I already was before I got my job, but fuck me it’s happened.
I’m working most nights now, and when I’m not working I’m either too tired, sleeping, or too depressed to do anything online. I’m missing my online friends.. online, and the only people who I seem to talk to in real life are .. well, my work colleagues. Offline social life = +1, online = -1.
Of course because I am so busy I am neglecting to talk to friends, so they don’t talk to me, it’s fucking brilliant really. Defaulting on responsibilities and not being able to do the things I used to like to do online, just depresses me even further.
The problem for me is that, even though I’m not working as much as I could be, the shifts are spread out over the week in an awkward way, I will have a shift on a Monday, then a Tuesday, then nothing ’til the Sunday, so Wednesday through Saturday I have free (In this hypothetical scenario), but then I lack the motivation to do anything.
So to the few friends I have left (you’re possibly reading this), I understand you not talking to me if I’m not around much, and when I am around, I don’t contact you, so what can I complain about. Fucking depressing.
30 Day Challenges
So after 30 days of coding the site, releasing little sneak peaks on twitter, referring to it everywhere as “Super Secret Project”, I’ve finally got the site to a stage where I can launch it.
I coded the site in 30 days, that was my “30 Day Challenge”. If you register on the site you can read that here: http://30daychallenges.net/challenges/info/2. It’s a nice story to tell, but a lot of long nights coding were involved, and a lot of poking from my friends, so once more, thanks to them 
I’ve set myself another challenge to continue, you can view my progress on that one here: http://30daychallenges.net/challenges/info/51
You should probably read this blog entry on the site itself: Welcome to 30 Day Challenges, feel free to comment over there!
I started following people with the twitter account a few hours ago so you may have noticed already. Why the odd name? Cos it matches the short URL which I’ve integrated to certain parts of the website, which is 30d.me
I really have high hopes for the site, personally I love the idea, but that’s just me. If you’re confused about it I suggest you read this blog entry, the FAQ, or this Getting Started page.