Poor, poor, successful guy.

I’m busy at work. Things are definitely interesting and I like what I’m doing, but I’m burned out some when I get home a lot of the time.

It may seem like ages ago, but I pretty much just moved to a different country, to one of the biggest, most complex cities in the world. I want to see more of this place. Go skating at Rockefeller Center.

My new apartment isn’t 100% ready yet. The furniture is built and I’m mostly unpacked, but there’s still painting to do and stuff to buy and set up. I don’t even have Internet there until next week.

I am spending several evenings in the next couple weeks doing technical phone interviews for an IT Director position at a family member’s company.

I am going back to Toronto, where I will be meeting with my real estate lawyer and the ex-to-be to finalize the separation agreement and sign all the closing documents for selling the house. On that note, it is also my now-meaningless wedding anniversary in three weeks. I am processing this.

Tumblr’s new interface looks great in some ways and poor in others. I want to hunker down and get Missing e back up and running, but it is slow going.

I apologize that it is taking more time than you or I would like, but perhaps you’ll understand.

Now to answer 600+ support emails I put off

*cries*

I can’t complain, but I want to. So, I’ll do so, but show some gratitude, as well.

I had three phone interviews today.

I turned down the first one because it really wasn’t what I was looking for. The second went okay.

The third was with a very techy guy who seemed to really like everything I had to say about my experience and the technical aspects of the work I’ve done. He mentioned more than once at the end of the 1 1/4 hour phone call that he was definitely impressed with me.

I tend to have difficulty with big decisions. I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch, but I may have interesting offers to choose between and interview processes for other interesting positions uncompleted when I get them.

I’m not complaining about the opportunities I may have. I am insanely grateful (I will get back to that in a second), but I just want to make the best decision possible. Maybe I worry too much about it.

Did I mention grateful? Two of the three opportunities I am most interested in came because YOU reblogged my hire me post. More than that, I don’t think I’d have a tenth of the interest from employers in New York if it weren’t for Missing e users, feature suggesters and ambassadors.

If you had asked me when I wrote my first Greasemonkey script for replying to replies, I probably would have told you that all I expected to get out of it was to make a few of my dash friends a bit happier.

Now, I like to think I’m making at least tens of thousands of Tumblr users (maybe more, depending on what you believe download counts mean) a little happier, and the influx of opportunities to pursue a great job in a great city is some fantastic icing on the cake.

Or, rather, whipped cream on the pie, because I prefer pie.

THANK YOU!

Only 20 overnight Missing e support emails

That means I handled the new dashboard pretty well.

Yes. ONLY 20. You should have seen the last time.

Four hours to get it almost entirely fixed.

I didn’t even feel like doing it, much.

Do you not use Missing e? Do you get Tumblr’s Missing e warning anyway?

If you don’t use Missing e (on any browser), but DO get Tumblr’s invasive warning box that tells you that you have it and should consider uninstalling it, please take a full screenshot of it for me.

Let me know in my ask.

Do you not use Missing e? Do you get Tumblr’s Missing e warning anyway?

If you don’t use Missing e (on any browser), but DO get Tumblr’s invasive warning box that tells you that you have it and should consider uninstalling it, please take a screenshot of it for me.

Let me know in my ask.

Q:Is it at all surreal to see so many people using Missing e?

ayyjam

Definitely. I’m just this guy, you know?

I created the first parts of Missing e way back for some of the very people whom I follow. It was a little project to make it easy to respond to replies.

I just kept creating more and more scripts, and I started getting more followers who were interested in them. Then there was Missing e.

Missing e has been downloaded over 850,000 times (at last count). Even though A LOT of those are people who re-download or update by reinstalling, that’s a metric fuckton of people.

That’s kind of insane for something I made for 100 people at first. Everyone has been involved in it, too. Half the feature ideas were submitted by users. Missing e was even named by redcloud!

I don’t know what percentage of Tumblr knows who I am (as cutlerish or “the Missing e guy”), but I am confident it is more than just the followers I have. My Tumblr friends occasionally joke with me about Tumblr celebrity, but I don’t know that I really qualify.

I do know that I feel pretty bad that I can’t find the time to check out all my followers, though. However, I know I’ve hit the follow button for more than a few people like you who found me because of Missing e and then started interacting and replying on my personal blog. If Tumblr celebrity is the chance to have really cool strangers find you, then, sure, I have that.

I’m going to go ahead and prop one of the stickers here, unpeeled. Because of reasons.
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I’m going to go ahead and prop one of the stickers here, unpeeled.

Because of reasons.

I promised myself to stop looking at the “missing e” and “missing-e” tags

I caught myself checking a couple of times today to help with the sidebar problem.

I should stop, though. When it’s good, it’s great. When it’s okay, it’s tedious. When it’s bad, it’s fury-inducing.

wilwheaton: YES, TUMBLR, I UNDER-FUCKING-STAND.  WE ALL UNDER-FUCKING-STAND. WHY DON’T YOU UNDER-FUCKING-STAND, TUMBLR, THAT WE USE MISSING E BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME? STOP MAKING ME TELL YOU THAT I UNDERSTAND, AND WORK ON DEVELOPMENT SO I DON’T NEED MISSING E. I feel like I have the most significant right to agree with this. Although, if you tire of the warning, you always have options to hide the warning if you get it more than once. I also feel very Internet-cool when people I think are great support or get angry on behalf of work I do!
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wilwheaton:

YES, TUMBLR, I UNDER-FUCKING-STAND. 

WE ALL UNDER-FUCKING-STAND.

WHY DON’T YOU UNDER-FUCKING-STAND, TUMBLR, THAT WE USE MISSING E BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME?

STOP MAKING ME TELL YOU THAT I UNDERSTAND, AND WORK ON DEVELOPMENT SO I DON’T NEED MISSING E.

I feel like I have the most significant right to agree with this.

Although, if you tire of the warning, you always have options to hide the warning if you get it more than once.

I also feel very Internet-cool when people I think are great support or get angry on behalf of work I do!

missing-e: I was recently asked about what kind of computer I use to develop Missing e. The answer is: a Mac. I find too many people expect to find developers working away on a Windows (or maybe Linux) computer. That’s not always the case! Don’t forget that OS X is a Unix-based operating system with a lot going on under the pretty, pretty interface. Missing e is developed on a MacBook and tested for all browsers on Mac, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux machines. I did my thesis research on a MacBook, too. We’re talking low-level system coding here. I would have wanted to shoot myself doing that on a Windows box.
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missing-e:

I was recently asked about what kind of computer I use to develop Missing e.

The answer is: a Mac.

I find too many people expect to find developers working away on a Windows (or maybe Linux) computer. That’s not always the case! Don’t forget that OS X is a Unix-based operating system with a lot going on under the pretty, pretty interface.

Missing e is developed on a MacBook and tested for all browsers on Mac, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux machines.

I did my thesis research on a MacBook, too. We’re talking low-level system coding here. I would have wanted to shoot myself doing that on a Windows box.

This just arrived. The Missing e Shorty Vox Populi Award. Plus, it came with Tootsie Rolls in the box. (Taken with instagram)
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This just arrived. The Missing e Shorty Vox Populi Award.

Plus, it came with Tootsie Rolls in the box.

(Taken with instagram)

You’re supposed to tell me these things!

I’ve been scrolling back on my dash, and noticed some people were having problems with Missing e’s extra post buttons on the new post page being hard to click (because they overlap the normal post button).

I thought I’d fixed that.

Is it still a problem? Are you up to date? Stay updated!

How to use Smart Redirecting [New in v2.9.11]

missing-e:

I just added this new option to Missing e version 2.9.11 (update now). You’ll find it in the settings page (find out how to get there under the Post Features in the Posting Tweaks section. It is off by default, but you can activate it.

It works only on new posts, and will not affect where your web browser goes after you reblog a post (since Tumblr usually will bring you back to where you were on the dash when you finish reblogging).

So, if you turn this option on, here’s what you can expect:

  • If you click a new post button on your dashboard and then publish a post, you’ll redirect to the dashboard, like normal
  • If you click a new post button in your blog page (/blog/username) and then publish a post, it’ll redirect to the blog page of whichever blog you posted to
  • If you post a new (not reblogged) post to your queue or drafts, you’ll be redirected to the right queue or drafts

I’m not sure why this isn’t the norm already!

Updating

Go to this page and follow the instructions to update: http://missing-e.com/update

For you, tj.