hathix.com’ס ערשטער דיין געבורסטאָג איז מאָרגן, so to celebrate I’ve gotten it a gift – אַ גאַנץ נייַ קוק! האַטהיקס 3.0, codename שטיקל, ריטיינז די קאָליר סכעמע פון די אַלט ווערסיע (אַפּראָופּרייטלי געהייסן האַטהיקס 2.1 “דעוודראָפּ”) but sports an airy new look that’s ריין און עלעגאַנט. נעמען אַ קוקן (אָדער פּרובירן עס אויס):
Category: hathix.com נייַעס
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How DO you pronounce “האַטהיקס”?
You’d think I get that question a lot, but actually I don’t – most people pronounce it a certain way and are absolutely, positively, sure they’re right. There are so many pronunciations it’s incredible, so who am I to choose the “proper” one? Let ’em pronounce it however they like, I say.
That being said, the number of pronunciations I hear is borderline ridiculous. Here are the most common ones I’ve heard.
אַ גאַנץ נייַ קוק
געזונט, the host switch went nearly seamlessly (so seamlessly, אין פאַקט, that I have no idea if the switch actually happened.) As promised, here’s something big for you.
If you’ve ever viewed the hathix.com home page, you’ll notice how horrible it looks. Or used to look.
Not very pretty, רעכט? געזונט, it wasn’t supposed to be. I just threw together some code to make the site work; the look wasn’t at all important.
Well I soon realized that a) this horribly ugly look was probably hurting the site and b) I had some spare time on my hands. So I wrote some new code for the site and here’s what I got:
Switching hosts, expect some downtime
Just a quick notice. I’m in the process of switching hosts for hathix.com, so starting tomorrow expect some downtime.
I have no idea how long the site will be down; some people have said only a few hours but I’ve read on some forums that it can take up to a week. Not exactly what I’d call helpful.
And after I switch hosts it’ll take me a little while to import some databases and other fun web management stuff, which might take another day.
To make it up to you there will be some goodies heading your way once the site’s back up.
Follow hathix.com on Twitter
Good news, news hounds, tech junkies, and lovers of the elephant: you can now follow hathix.com on Twitter – @ האַטהיקס. Or just click on the button above the post.
Here’s what I’ll be tweeting on:
- New blog posts
- hathix.com נייַעס
- Small tech news that doesn’t make it into a blog post
- Minor reviews that don’t make it into blog posts
- Random musings about developing software
Sound interesting? You can follow me to get all the updates, or if you don’t have a Twitter account you can just bookmark my page and view my tweets from there.
Buy hathix.com shirts, mugs, and other stuff
Foreword: I’m allowed a shameless plug every so often, aren’t I?
Good news: I’ve created an official hathix.com store on CafePress where you can buy
official hathix.com gear:
- T-shirts for men, women, and kids
- Hoodies for men, women, and kids
- Caps
- Tote bags
- Mugs
- Clocks
- Water bottles
So far I only have 6 designs, but more are coming soon. A design works on any item in the store.
Love the elephant? Grab yourself something from the store today (it’s at hathix.com/store).
The quest for a decent home page
I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. איך מיינען, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, געזונט, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.
I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.