Hacks by Others

I toot my own horn too much. This blog has more recently been at least 90% my own code. My readership seems to be going up though (FeedBurner reporting over 60 as of yesterday).

Either way I think I’ll spend this posts talking about some of the more recent developments in the hacker community. Some of this is new, some of it is old, it is not a comprehensive list. This is just what I thought was cool recently These are in no particular order.

Stubborn Fanatic (Vivek Sanghi)

…has used the new Blogger ‘if’ tags (as he documented them) to create a hack that shows Google AdSense ads inside posts on item pages. My blog is ad-free. I find ads inside posts the most annoying. If I ever do ads I promise they will not interfere with the post. But at least his hack keeps them from cluttering the main page.
…colourful, colourful comments!
…fix your layout editor (you have a hacked-beyond-belief template!)
…has created a horizontal menu bar of your tags (yawn…) with drop-down lists of the most recent posts (cool!) Definately a hack to check out, even if you don’t install it.

Hoctro

…has a wicked table of contents widget for your blog!
…Google AJAX using their API instead of YubNub.

Note to Hoctro : how about a way to browse your blog by date? The newest entry on the main page and then no interface for date-based archives or a prevous-post link/list. Nothing. Annoying.

Hackosphere (Ramani)