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Using Pinboard.in with Opera

Posted by jl2 on June 28, 2011
Posted in: computers. Tagged: , , , .

A while back I signed up with Pinboard.in and stopped using my delicious.com account. Pinboard is pretty awesome, and there are plugins/extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, but not much for Opera except for the generic “bookmarklets“. Fortunately, Opera is customizable enough that no extra plugins are really necessary.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The trickiest part was adding keyboard shortcuts for bookmarking. The shortcut editor in Opera isn’t very intuitive, so this was more difficult than I expected. My goal was to have F9 add the current page to “Read Later”, F10 to bring up the “Bookmark with Tags” page, and for F11 to bring up my Pinboard bookmarks. Eventually I was able to get it working. I think the important things are:

  • Add the shortcuts under the Application section
  • Make sure single key shortcuts are turned on
  • Make sure the correct shortcuts are selected in the “Keyboard setup” list. Sometimes the change doesn’t seem to take effect…
  • Make sure F9, F10, and F11 aren’t mapped to anything else anywhere.

The following can be copy/pasted into the keyboard .ini settings file. Or, copy paste everything after the ‘=’ into the keyboard shortcut editor.

; Read Later
F9=Go to page,"javascript:{q=location.href;p=document.title;void(t=open('https://pinboard.in/add?later=yes&noui=yes&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard', 'toolbar=no,width=100,height=100'));t.blur();}"

; With tags
F10=Go to page,"javascript:{q=location.href;if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else{d='';};p=document.title;void(open('https://pinboard.in/add?showtags=yes&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=600'));}"

; Go to Pinboard.in
F11=Go to page,"https://pinboard.in/u:jlarocco/"

Searches

Next I added two custom searches for easy access to my bookmarks.

The first one, with shortcut “pbt” uses the URL “https://pinboard.in/u:jlarocco/t:%s”, goes to my Pinboard page and displays all bookmarks with a certain tag:
pbt Search

The second one, with shortcut “pb” uses the URL “https://pinboard.in/search/?query=%s&mine=Search+Mine”, will search all of my Pinboard bookmarks:
pb_screenshot

With the above configuration it’s almost easier to use Pinboard than it is to use Opera’s built-in bookmarking functionality.

New Project

Posted by jl2 on May 28, 2011
Posted in: Biking, coding. Tagged: , , , , .

The other night while riding my bike after work, I realized that I ride one of two routes almost every day. I had never really thought about it before, but for some reason it really bugged me. I have “alternate” routes for when the trails are too muddy, or if it’s really snowing and cold, but usually it’s the same ride all the time.

I kept thinking about it, and before long I had a solution: I could create a database of all the rides I can access from work and setup a cron job to send a randomly selected ride to me every day. It was a long ride, though, and the more I thought about it, the more features I came up with. Before too long I had a whole list of features, and it started to seem like a really cool idea.

So my new project is going to be a website, After Work Rides.

I spent most of today setting everything up so that I can get started. I decided to make the site using Python3 and the Bottle web framework. Dreamhost provides MySQL databases, so that decision was made for me. Unfortunately, I had to install Python 3.2, Bottle, and the MySQL DB connector myself, because Dreamhost only provides old versions. Not difficult, but it had to be done.

After the hosting was setup I signed up for a Google Maps API key, created a new repo on Github and setup a simple landing page.

Finally I can get to work on the interesting part of actually developing the site…