today’s Google doodle celebrates Robert Moog’s 78th birthday
and the doodle functions. go try it out, seriously.
(Source: google.com)
creative mind. lecturer. designer. Grammar Ninja. optimistic cynic. pedant. Jedi. any questions?
these are my thoughts and random things i feel like sharing...
i can usually be found talking about:
comics
(usually, but not limited to:
Spider-man,
Iron Man,
Wolverine,
Deadpool,
Nightwing
),
gaming,
Lego,
Star Wars,
Doctor Who,
zombies,
ninjas,
Cthulhu,
pugs,
various legendary people
...
(see full tag cloud)
if you're looking for my tech-type writings, you'll be wanting toodamnninja.wordpress.com
alternatively, stalk me on twitter.com/toodamnninja
or (new) ask me shit.
Hyphens are Evil
Have you ever been in the situation that you tagged your posts, but they won’t appear when searching for that specific tag? Then you might have used a hyphen in your tag, which is obviously a very bad idea on Tumblr.
As Tumblr is currently lacking off something like a “Posts by Author” feature in group blogs, I had to workaround that by creating tags on each single posts which are the same as the authors name to be able to trigger a tag search to show all related posts for that specific author. That worked quite well, excepting for one author and it turned out to be an annoying weakness of Tumblr: hyphens are evil.
Hyphens are getting interpreted as spaces which obviously break the search for the given tag - just to keep that in mind spaces are represented by a plus (
+) - and results in a “no posts found” state. You might be one of the sharper knives in the drawer and try to workaround that by URL encoding the hyphen (%2d), but that would be to no avail.The only working solution is to abstain from hyphens in your tags and additionally you should spend a thought or two on removing them from your username, because you will never be notified about posts with your username in the tags as long as the username carries a hyphen.
By the way, you will not find a single word about that weakness when checking the tag usage documenation of Tumblr.
…furthermore, from what i’ve read of other people’s complaints, tumblr’s ‘support’ on the matter is “change all your tags to not include hyphens”. UNACCEPTABLE.
why should users have to use incorrect tags (or refrain from using hyphens in usernames) because you fucked up the way that tags work?
they used to work just fine however far back it was i first set up my blurb, i know ‘cos i checked every link; tumblr at some point changed the behaviour of hyphen-inclusive tags. and THEY FUCKED UP, but refuse to acknowledge it.
Spending friday night building a (not-)Lego TARDIS while watching Supernatural. Living life to the max.
Oh, and eating chilli and drinking red wine. Fuck yeah.
Doesn’t get much better than this.
From today’s feed: “wrong man was executed in texas, yahoo!” #allaboutcontext (Taken with instagram)
I used to run a rather successful origami business until, due to the recent economic decline, it folded.
