I was pleasantly surprised this week to discover that Lifehacker featured my Remove Gallery Links userscript on Dec. 3rd, 2009. I guess this explains why today when I checked on this script for the first time since I created it on Oct. 17, it had over 1600 users.
To celebrate, I decided to include the entire Gawker network in the script, something I really should have done in the first place.
I’ve had a snippet of jQuery and javascript kicking around for a while, that I have found handy in the past for generating post slugs. Finally I’ve packaged it as a plugin to share: jQuery Slug Plugin.
This is my first jQuery plugin, so it doesn’t follow the more advanced plugin development pattern by Mike Alsup, instead I followed a more rudimentary plugin authoring tutorial.
Here’s an explanation of the plugin, and examples of its usage.