balpha

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My name is Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe. I am Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00007, which is just a confusing way of saying that I work as a developer for Stack Exchange.

I am @balpha on Twitter. My blog's "about" page explains the origin of my user name.

I am the creator of Unicornify, the service that gives you these lovable creatures:

I also created Lyfe, a small library adding yield-based generators to JavaScript, and Not a Real Question, a little game that's played with data from various Stack Exchange sites.

I sometimes have a strange sense of humor, but I also like to explain things I fix, break, care about, or come up with.

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1d	comment	Does any one remember an app that runs test cases against stackoverflow answer to find the right kind of code snippet? Do you mean gkoberger.github.io/stacksort? That's only for sorting though.
Jan 26	comment	Dude, where's my cursor? @JeffAtwood Interesting idea, though I wonder if that's feasible. Mapping a character in a text area to a screen position is pretty much impossible.
Jan 26	comment	Dude, where's my cursor? @badp As always in Chrome, you have to open `chrome://extensions`, and then drag the script from the download bar at the bottom onto that tab.
Nov 11	comment	Threaded comments @Asad Already exists. After you click "unthread", you can click "thread" to show the comments as before.
Oct 8	comment	Reputation graph @JonCage It's been like that for months; see stackapps.com/questions/3498/… (includes workaround)
Sep 30	comment	“Reply” links on comments @MartinSchröder Fixed now.
Sep 28	comment	“Reply” links on comments @MartinSchröder Ah yeah, I never fixed that... (To be honest, I haven't been using this script much since we put the tab autocompleter in). I'll fix it over the weekend; it's easy enough.
Sep 23	comment	is there a way to use my app to authenticate users with only a StackOverflow account with the stackExchange oauth api 2.1? @agares Just use the same login you used for the other sites. You already have a Stack Exchange network account: stackexchange.com/users/1073949/agares
Sep 12	comment	Threaded comments @Pureferret You're absolutely right, it would be identical. I'm not thinking about technical issues, more conceptual issues. It should also be noted that most comment threads are fairly short, and any additional user interface functionality creates an additional burden, so you'd have to weigh the two. I don't actually have strong feelings about your proposal; I'm just not quite convinced.
Sep 12	comment	Threaded comments @Pureferret Hmm, I see your point, but it's somewhat problematic in that this script really only does guesswork (even if fairly educated guesswork) as to what is a reply to what. I fear that with such a functionality as you request, it creates a too confident impression of its abilities.
Sep 11	comment	Threaded comments @Pureferret Can you give an example of what you mean by that?
Jun 24	comment	Official keyboard shortcuts Yeah, at the moment that only works when you load the new questions via the keyboard shorttcut (`F`). This is on my list, though.
Jun 23	comment	Chrome may not allow one-click userscript install now Don't feel bad for thinking it was a bug; the main issue report on this was filed by a Chromium developer who thought it was a regression :)
Jun 22	comment	Official keyboard shortcuts Fixed, thanks for noting.
Jun 22	comment	Official keyboard shortcuts Regarding the inconsistency -- yes, we decided to live with that, in particular since hardly anybody uses "new window" anymore these days. Regarding `?` -- hmm yeah, I must have just broken that. Will fix.
Jun 22	comment	Official keyboard shortcuts This works, but we have decided to go with `Shift` as the modifier key, since there's less of a collision chance. `Shift-Enter` will open in a new tab (it also works in a few other places, e.g. `G` `Shift-P` opens your profile in a new tab).
Jun 18	comment	Reputation graph Re the second part: This is actually prevented at least if you were on the "graph" section on page load (not after an AJAX-tab change, though). Re both of them: I'll probably not fix those; considering how long it took someone to report the other issues, hardly anyone is using this script anymore (this includes myself, obviously), so I don't think it's worth polishing any further.
Jun 18	comment	Reputation graph This particular script doesn't really use any inside knowledge (hardly any of them do, actually) -- it's e.g. usually easier to check "what's the name of that AJAX route" by clicking and seeing what gets requested, instead of finding the relevant code (nobody can possibly know all that by hand). I go about creating user scripts like any non-SE dev would.
Jun 18	comment	Reputation graph Did you miss the "fixed now" in my previous comment? :)
Jun 18	comment	Reputation graph Wow, this script was broken in several spots for ages. I guess hardly anyone uses it anymore :) Fixed now.