This is the tumblog of Oscar Palmer

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Digest, a new way to microblog
In recent years services like tumblr have become extremely popular due to their ease of use and management, something I take for granted with my busy schedules. However. As a designer Tumblr is seen as either a technical challenge or rather limiting. Enter Digest. 
Digest is a new platform I’m working on in my spare time. It takes the micro blogging greatness of tumblr, adds a dollop of a wordpress-like theme engine and a sprinkle of optimisation to create a micro blogging service on aesthetic enhancing roids!
I will be publishing more information and teasers here over the next few weeks. Digest will be self hosted by its users and 100% free.

Well, I’m excited. Tim always makes quality stuff.

tmdvs:

Digest, a new way to microblog

In recent years services like tumblr have become extremely popular due to their ease of use and management, something I take for granted with my busy schedules. However. As a designer Tumblr is seen as either a technical challenge or rather limiting. Enter Digest. 

Digest is a new platform I’m working on in my spare time. It takes the micro blogging greatness of tumblr, adds a dollop of a wordpress-like theme engine and a sprinkle of optimisation to create a micro blogging service on aesthetic enhancing roids!

I will be publishing more information and teasers here over the next few weeks. Digest will be self hosted by its users and 100% free.

Well, I’m excited. Tim always makes quality stuff.

Akihabara meets Oscar

Do you remember my old post on game development where I was researching game development books etc? Well, I found something.

Back in April (made an appearance on GitHub on the 22nd) Francesco Cottone released a game development framework called Akihabara. Akihabara is based on Francesco’s own scripts (good ol’ javascript) for creating environments, enemies, items et cetera, and together with the canvas tag in HTML5 you’ve got a retro game.

Why is this so awesome then? I’d like to think that I know games and the web; this is the merging of the two, so the learning curve isn’t that high. When will I make something with it? This fall. I will be using it in a school project with a friend of mine, and we’ve got a lot of fun ideas for games and we hope to incorporate the majority of them into a couple of games.

But now? Back to the sketchpad for some more game ideas.

Trying out MarsEdit

Red Sweater Software just updated their publishing software MarsEdit to a fancy 3.0 and I’m writing this entry in it. A bit more stable when it comes to Tumblr these days as well as a bunch of new features:

  • “WYSIWYG” rich text editing
  • Support for WordPress Pages and Custom Fields
  • Improved HTML syntax highlighting
  • Integration with iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom
  • Scheduled media attachments Priced at $39.95, a reasonable price if you publish a lot of content. Upgrade from 1.x or 2.x for only $14.95.

A lot of posts about apps recently, but don’t blame me or anyone else.

Transmit 4 is out. I helped test this while it was under development and it is one of the best FTP apps that I have used. A great app for only $34, so go buy it.

It’s a $19 upgrade for those who bought Transmit 3.

Transmit 4 is out. I helped test this while it was under development and it is one of the best FTP apps that I have used. A great app for only $34, so go buy it.

It’s a $19 upgrade for those who bought Transmit 3.

An unpleasant chat

Those who disapprove of bad language or the inappropriate use of the term (the pejorative one) for a specific sexual orientation et cetera should not read this conversation.

  • Arsenal100: FAG LMAO U SUCK
  • Me: Right back at you.
  • Arsenal100: u eat dick right back at u
  • Five minute break.
  • Arsenal100: enjoy campin fag u gotno skill
  • Me: Why are you so homophobic?
  • Arsenal100: dont worry i just looked at ur profile ZERO trophys wonder why maybe somthing to do with being shit at games
  • Me: Wow. Looks like you skipped a lot of English classes when you went to school, if you even went to one, based on the way you write. Besides, what does me being bad at games have to do with you being homophobic? And finally; I’ve gotten the majority of the trophies in my games so my conclusion is: being good/bad at games has nothing to do with the amount of trophies you have.

Thankfully, I never heard from him again.

The image says it all: My font doesn’t have a nice name or a reasonable price-tag. It can’t be free, sorry, but it can’t cost $99 either. It has 654 characters, all Latin and 80% Cyrillic, as of now and it took a while to get there.

Added 5 minutes after posting: The person who comes up with the name will get the font for free.

Got suggestions? Great! Send an email to oscar + @ + oscarismy.name or reply with Twitter to @queo.

The image says it all: My font doesn’t have a nice name or a reasonable price-tag. It can’t be free, sorry, but it can’t cost $99 either. It has 654 characters, all Latin and 80% Cyrillic, as of now and it took a while to get there.

Added 5 minutes after posting: The person who comes up with the name will get the font for free.

Got suggestions? Great! Send an email to oscar + @ + oscarismy.name or reply with Twitter to @queo.

Game development

About a week ago I was indirectly introduced to Flixel after Harry released a few Flixel accessories. But Flixel is Flash, and Flash can sometimes be clunky; what I want is stability and speed. That means OpenGL and other cool stuff. Flixel is currently only playable on computers and not on your iPhone/iPod/iPad, a platform that I’d really want to develop for.

Where do I begin?

So far, I have only dabbled in Xcode and made dummy apps. If I want to get somewhere, I know that I will have to read some books.

Help me out!

What books should I read?

I love Tumblr

Back in January I revamped my website using Textpattern as the core and I used it as a blog as well. Up until now that is. I closed down that blog, but not my Textpattern installation, after I decided that I love Tumblr too much to be able to leave it.

Tumblr will now be my only way of blogging (kinda) and I am proud of saying this:

I love Tumblr!

My Textpattern installation will now work like a great and fast way of keeping track of my main site and its subdirectories, e.g. /about, and I have no intention of leaving it just because I’m not using it for a blog.

A thumb up to you, Tumblr.

This is what I’ve been tinkering with for about a week now. It works well on both print and display from what I’ve seen.

These are just the basic characters, but there are hundreds of these; Latin is pretty much completed and I just started with the Cyrillic ones.

This is what I’ve been tinkering with for about a week now. It works well on both print and display from what I’ve seen.

These are just the basic characters, but there are hundreds of these; Latin is pretty much completed and I just started with the Cyrillic ones.

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