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I am your host, Noodles and Beef, and welcome to my blog. It's my creative dumping ground and journal. I post work from my photo projects, sketches from my notepad, and infographics from my research. Sometimes I write about personal stuff but more often I post photos of my butt.

I'm a single, gay, 25-year-old who lives in San Francisco, and I do UX for a living. Your hair looks amazing today.

Anyway, thanks for reading my blog, I hope you enjoy it!

Popular Noodles


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Lets try this again… Have you guys seen that “Popular Noodles” pod at the top of my blog?  It’s a widget that shows my most popular tumblr posts over the past 30 days.  It’s great for new readers who aren’t sure where to start, and it makes finding good content MUCH easier. This is not a feature provided by tumblr, so I made a tool that generates popular posts for tumblr. Currently it only supports photo posts, but I will be adding support for text, audio, etc soon.  (It does not show reblogs). Bug Fix Update: there was a small bug with the generation of embed code, so widgets weren’t loading.  You will have to re-generate your embed code. Sorry!

Lets try this again…

Have you guys seen that “Popular Noodles” pod at the top of my blog?  It’s a widget that shows my most popular tumblr posts over the past 30 days.  It’s great for new readers who aren’t sure where to start, and it makes finding good content MUCH easier.

This is not a feature provided by tumblr, so I made a tool that generates popular posts for tumblr.

Currently it only supports photo posts, but I will be adding support for text, audio, etc soon.  (It does not show reblogs).

Bug Fix Update: there was a small bug with the generation of embed code, so widgets weren’t loading.  You will have to re-generate your embed code. Sorry!

If you’d like to generate your own “Best of Tumblr 2011” collage like my New Years post, you can do so here. The Best of Tumblr tool grabs all your posts and sorts them by popularity, grouped by year and month.  It can take a few minutes to load everything if you’re a prolific blogger, but the result is a pretty, reverse-calendar of your tumblr.  The most popular post is featured first, with three runner-ups that you can reveal by hovering over them. Please note: This tool does not show posts that you reblogged, only your own photos. Enjoy! Updated 1/2/2012: Added “Advanced Options” to let people see popular posts from 2012 or non-photo posts Sped-up loading Fixed the “Ghost Reblogs” bug. If you reblogged someone who later deleted their account, tumblr turns the post into a normal post, not a reblog…so it was messing up stats. Fixed a bug where the tool gives up when tumblr gives a 500 error.

If you’d like to generate your own “Best of Tumblr 2011” collage like my New Years post, you can do so here.

The Best of Tumblr tool grabs all your posts and sorts them by popularity, grouped by year and month.  It can take a few minutes to load everything if you’re a prolific blogger, but the result is a pretty, reverse-calendar of your tumblr.  The most popular post is featured first, with three runner-ups that you can reveal by hovering over them.

Please note: This tool does not show posts that you reblogged, only your own photos.

Enjoy!

Updated 1/2/2012:

  • Added “Advanced Options” to let people see popular posts from 2012 or non-photo posts
  • Sped-up loading
  • Fixed the “Ghost Reblogs” bug. If you reblogged someone who later deleted their account, tumblr turns the post into a normal post, not a reblog…so it was messing up stats.
  • Fixed a bug where the tool gives up when tumblr gives a 500 error.

Barcelonia CSS Fix

Tumblr completely changed how they do photosets, which kind of made them ugly for Barcelonia users.

You can fix this by adding this code to your “Custom CSS” area.  Go to Customize your Theme, then under “Advanced” then add the code to “Add custom CSS”.

.html_photoset iframe { width: 100% }

If this does not work, go to “Edit HTML” and look for “Custom CSS.”  Paste this code under that and you’re done.

I’ve submitted this fix to tumblr, but they’re very slow to update this stuff.  So I highly recommend doing it manually instead of waiting.

Quick update on my tumblr stats thing. I wasn’t happy with the quality of the tool, so I’ve spruced up the layout a bit and added a new section about who is leaving notes on your blog.  It’s sort of the reverse of the tumblr crushes feature, this shows who has a crush on your posts.

Quick update on my tumblr stats thing.

I wasn’t happy with the quality of the tool, so I’ve spruced up the layout a bit and added a new section about who is leaving notes on your blog.  It’s sort of the reverse of the tumblr crushes feature, this shows who has a crush on your posts.

Remember when I threw-down some ghetto graphs with anonymous? It’s a little rough, but I’ve released the tool that lets you create these charts for your tumblr blog.  Additionally, this tool analyzes the type of posts you make to tell you your “Blogging Style.”  (For example, I’m a Visual-Creator because I mostly post original photos). Enjoy: The Simple Tumblr Stats Tool Edit: I’ve updated the tool slightly to include details on who leaves you notes. Read about it here.

Remember when I threw-down some ghetto graphs with anonymous?

It’s a little rough, but I’ve released the tool that lets you create these charts for your tumblr blog.  Additionally, this tool analyzes the type of posts you make to tell you your “Blogging Style.”  (For example, I’m a Visual-Creator because I mostly post original photos).

Enjoy: The Simple Tumblr Stats Tool

Edit: I’ve updated the tool slightly to include details on who leaves you notes. Read about it here.