Remember those snazzy badges I made some time ago? Well, after having been featured on OMG! Ubuntu! I felt like getting back on the proverbial horse and make some more badges. So I did. I’m not crazy about the font situation, but Arch’s official font seems to be Liberation Sans - so that’s what I’m going with.

As usual, there is one color and one monochrome flavors, both with low-opacity versions. Sticking them on your website is super easy. For more information on that, go check out the Made on Linux page.

If you want me to make badges like these for your favorite distribution, simply shoot me an email (my email is available on the contact page). There are some distributions that I can’t make badges for because of copyright reasons, but I promise I’ll do my best.

… Because we’re moving!

As soon as I get the time, I am going to try to move this blog over to the root domain, www.blastfromthepast.se. I’ve tried doing this in the past, but all I’ve ended up with is a broken mess.

This time, I’m going to completely reinstall wordpress and all my plugins, and then migrate all the posts, comments, images, etc. to that blog. So essentially, it’ll be like starting over. However, I will have to do some magic to redirect all the people who go to /blabbermouth/ to the new domain, while still keeping their URL intact.

For example; let’s say you want to go to my about page. Usually that is at www.blastfromthepast.se/blabbermouth/about-me/. What I want to do is to make it so that a person who goes to that adress automatically gets sent to www.blastfromthepast.se/about-me/ instead. So essentially, I will just be removing the /blabbermouth part.

I’m not quite sure how to do this yet, as I’m no .htaccess ninja. When I find out, I’ll be sure to let you know. Right now, I just wanted to give you a heads up.

I know this post is probably a couple of years late by now, but when I reworked my “Made on Linux”-page, I needed a way to display some information only when the user wanted it - without having to have multiple pages to send the user to. In other words, I needed to be able to hide a chunk of text, and then show it when the user clicked on something.

As I am no JavaScript wizard, I originally found this technique somewhere else, and got help from people over at StackOverflow to make it fit my needs. Sadly, I’ve now lost the original source, and Googling has led me nowhere. If the original author reads this, please email me and I will of course attribute you.

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About ten days ago, I released a couple of “Made on Ubuntu” badges to put on websites made in Ubuntu. Now I have decided to make some general “Made on Linux” buttons, and I’ve decided to rename the project “Made on Linux” - as that includes Ubuntu as well.

So far, these are the changes I have made:

• Added four more badges featuring Tux.
• Added some nice JavaScript effects to show and hide the sample code.
• Changed the text to reflect that this is now not only for Ubuntu.
• Changed the URL to blastfromthepast.se/linuxbadges
• Added a redirect so that people who visit the old URL get sent to the new one.

Things still to do:

• Add more badges for various distributions.
• Make it easier for people to just copy’n'paste a little code into their website and have the badges be displayed.

Be sure to visit the site now, and please email me if you’re planning on using any of the badges!

“Made on Linux”

In the Mac iLife suite there’s a web page builder application that many Mac users seem to be using to create their personal websites. Being that this is an evil Apple application, the program automatically slaps a badge saying “Made on a Mac” on the footer, as to advertise to the world that any moron can create a website with a Mac.

A member at Ubuntu forums had noticed this, and put forth the idea that Ubuntu users should get a similar badge to display on their websites - that is, if they made it on Ubuntu. I kind of liked the idea, even though it might be seen as slightly unfair to Linux users who are using other distributions -  but on the other hand, the only people who would click on such a badge are people who don’t already know what Ubuntu is. In other words, Mac or Windows users.

So I sat down and created some badges…

Fast forward a few hours, and not only had I made 4 awesome looking badges, but I had also created a pretty neat website to hold them all!

If you have created a website on Ubuntu, go get one of the badges!