me.dt.in.th

Welcome to my blog and my playground.

I am Thai Pangsakulyanont. I put on this website various small projects, articles, and toys I made. Feel free to look around. For bigger projects, please see my website or my GitHub profile.

All Posts

• ttycast v0.2 Released — February 2^nd, 2013

  ttycast v0.2.0 is just released. This new version is easier to use, includes server-side terminal emulation (instead of client-side), configurable terminal size, and recording support to .tty file. » read more

• Node.js: When to use a StringDecoder? — February 2^nd, 2013

  In Node.js, Buffers has toString() that can convert a buffer into a String with a specified encoding, and StringDecoder does the same. So, when to use StringDecoder? » read more

• Understanding Quicksort (with interactive demo) — November 8^th, 2012

  At the college, we're learning about abstract data types and few sorting algorithms, and so in this article I try to explain about the quicksort algorithm using some kind of an interactive demo. » read more

• Pagist — Turn a Gist Into a Web Page — October 17^th, 2012

  Tomorrow I'm going to have a discrete maths test, and so there are few friends asking me several questions.

  So I think, wouldn't it be nice if there is a way to send them these mathematical equations (or few paragraph of text) in a way that is as easy as posting a Gist?

  That's why I created Pagist. » read more

• Poor, Poor Return Key! — September 12^th, 2012

  Just a diary for myself. Yesterday, while I was using my MacBook Pro normally, a soft touch on the return key broke it apart into two pieces. » read more

• Serve Google Spreadsheet as JSONP (JavaScript) — September 8^th, 2012

  While creating a Live Scoreboard for this year's DJMAX Technika Thailand Championship, some of the data (list of participants, offline judge results) are stored on Google Spreadsheets.

  I need to find a way to incorporate these data into the web app, and I find a purely client-side way to do it. » read more

• What I learned during refactoring JavaScript — August 17^th, 2012

  I just refactored dtinthstagram a bit, to make the code more concise, also making use of Backbone.js. Here's the experience of it. » read more

• Playing with mplayer and caca — August 16^th, 2012

  I'm giving my friend a JavaScript and Node.js crash course through Skype, using ttycast to stream my live terminal session through to friend. Then I talked to him about what command-line apps can do: browsing the web, installing software, chatting, and watching movies right inside a Terminal! » read more

• dtinthstagram: Instagram Viewer for Web and Desktop — August 14^th, 2012

  An Ajax app I made some time ago. It is an open-source super-smooth web-based Instagram viewer. If you are an Instagram user, try it out! :D » read more

• Remote Camera Shutter for a Jailbroken iPad Powered by Node.js — July 20^th, 2012

  Yesterday, I went to Chocolate Ville, a very beautiful restaurant, planning to take bunch of photos. I went with many friends, my MacBook Pro and my New iPad.

  After the food is ordered, my friends went to look around and take more photos, while I and another friend were waiting for the food (someone has to look for our belongings), I then felt like oh it's a nice idea to take photos of everyone.

  ...but instead of asking the waitress to take a photo for us, I think I'd make my MacBook press the shutter button on my iPad for me. So while waiting for the food, I quickly created a remote shutter in Node.js. » read more

• XULRunner App Development Experience — July 12^th, 2012

  #thaiWitter has been using the engine in Firefox 3.6 since 2011, and I attempt to roll my own #thaiWitter app in XULRunner.

  This blog post describes its experience. » read more

• ttycast: Broadcast your tty to the world! — July 7^th, 2012

  ttycast is a Node.js app that allows you to broadcast your tty online, in really real time! » read more

• Divide Money - My first app written using Knockout.js — July 7^th, 2012

  I just came from an HTML5 training. The instructors taught us some basic jQuery and told us to make an app about lifestyle.

  So I think I'd try something new, so instead I play with Knockout.js » read more

• pmd: A Command-Line Pomodoro Timer for Mac — June 29^th, 2012

  Today, I started applying The Pomodoro Technique, so I made for myself a simple countdown timer.

  This blog post also covers how to make a NSStatusItem that lives at the far right of the items. » read more

• tos3: An extremely simple tool to sync local files to Amazon S3. — June 25^th, 2012

  For some time blog has been running on a Ruby on Rails webapp hosted on Heroku, which makes it feels somewhat "slow". So I decided to make my website totally static and host them somewhere.

  I got the blog engine done and then wondered where and how to put these static files. I chose Amazon S3 and tried to find a nice way to put the files up. I ended up writing my own syncer in Java. » read more

• Quick Note about Jailcoder — May 27^th, 2012

  Just tried using Jailcoder to build and run iOS apps on my iPad. So here is a quick how to. » read more

• Fluid (Mac): Fix Back Button Breaking the JavaScript API — April 8^th, 2012

  While I was making dtinthstagram, I thought that it would be a good idea to make it work in Fluid, as well as a support for dock badges.

  So I implemented it in a straightforward way. Then I found that going to other page and back to the old page breaks the Fluid JavaScript API. » read more

• About ActionListeners — March 5^th, 2012

  I've been chatting some OOP with a friend, who went to an army camp during the Object-Oriented Programming class. So I explained to him a bit on how ActionListeners work. And here's how the conversation went: » read more

• Stylus Snippet - Deopacify — November 29^th, 2011

  What it does, given a background color, an opacity, and a target color: It finds a color which when drawn on the background color with the given opacity, results in the target color. » read more

• PhantomJS - Passing Variables to page.evaluate — November 23^rd, 2011

  When I was making an auto form submission script, I tried to find out how to pass data from outside script to page.evaluate script. In all form submission examples that I've seen, they all use fixed data. As of 1.3.0, it's still unsupported.

  So I thought I would pass it as a global variable instead. » read more

• Generating a Tone on Internal PC Speaker (Linux C, C++) — November 22^nd, 2011

  So I played a bit with the PC Speaker like I like to do before in an AX-11. I tried using Beep() on Windows 7, but it didn't work, so I had to use Linux. I searched a lot on the Internet for how to make it generate a tone so I'll post it here for future reference. » read more

• My Eclipse Color Theme — November 18^th, 2011

  I just finished tweaking my Eclipse color theme.

  On code with good balance of code and documentation, it will have a mix of cool colors and warm colors. Without the comments and stuff, it will look reddish. » read more

• Gzipping Responses in Node.js + Express App (Obsoleted) — November 10^th, 2011

  Not long ago while developing the #thaiWitter 3 server (Node.js + Express App), I realized that Heroku/Cedar doesn't gzip the output, so I need to gzip them myself. I go with node-compress. » read more

• Checking for SSL in Node.js App on Heroku/Cedar — November 2^nd, 2011

  So in the preview of #thaiWitter 3 I've added Piggyback SSL to my Heroku app, and I couldn't find a way for the app to check if it's requested via SSL or not... » read more

• thaiWitter 3 RC — October 27^th, 2011

  The newer version of thaiWitter (known as thaiWitter 3) is almost out » read more

• JavaScript - Asynchronous Loops — October 23^rd, 2011

  I'm been working on a little experiment that I need to process a set of images (loading it, and putting it in canvas, and then process it) sequentially.

  In JavaScript, image loading is asynchronous, so I made these utility functions that makes processing things sequentially a lot easier. » read more

• Facebook Timeline Cover Template — October 15^th, 2011

  This so that you can make pictures that fit into Facebook's timeline cover image. » read more

• How Facebook Ranks Your Friends — October 13^th, 2011

  I'm a bit tired of all those applications that tries to determine your top friends based on some factor, knowing that Facebook knows the ranking of your friend more than any other applications could know. So I created this little experiment. » read more

• Hello, Rails! — October 12^th, 2011

  Hello! I am new to Ruby on Rails!

  And I'm liking it! <3 » read more

• #thaiWitter Scrolling Equation — August 28^th, 2011

  Since the beginning, thaiWitter has a characteristic about the way it scrolls from one place to another place. This article discusses, in mathematics style, about how it scrolls from one position to another. » read more

From The Old Blog

• Shell Script: Testing Gzip — February 27^th, 2011
• Serving Mercurial Over SSH, with Passwords — February 25^th, 2011
• I Just Want to Call Twitter's API With My Own Account! — September 18^th, 2010
• Thor, Technical Pattern Wallpaper — September 13^th, 2010
• My Facebook Account Was Blocked — June 18^th, 2010
• You don't need to know the victim's IP address to crack their PC. — June 3^rd, 2010
• Abscapture - Take Screenshot with Transparency (for Linux) — May 17^th, 2010
• I Bought an In-Ear Earphone From Japan. — April 29^th, 2010
• I Hate Writing Poems — December 13^th, 2009
• JScript Hypertext Preprocessor — December 1^st, 2009
• Linux: Fixing bad sectors the DtTvB's way! — April 19^th, 2009
• more in the archives!