Year: 2011

  • Cleaning Up Unicode Cruft in WordPress

    While helping someone with WordPress move earlier this week, I noticed a bunch of weird Unicode cruft (like ’ and –) in their posts and comments. Apparently, MySQL databases don’t like it when you switch their default character encoding. But different web hosts have different ways of doing things — so default character encodings can (and…

  • CMD + Conquer

    When I started over at WP Engine earlier this week, a brand new MacBook Air came into my possession. It’s very pretty and lightweight and I kind of love it more than any other computer I’ve ever owned. So much so that I made the decision to break with my normal tradition and keep this hot…

  • Peeling a Whole Head of Garlic, Very Quickly

    At first, I saw this and I was like: But then I did some Googling and saw that Real Simple suggested the same method and I was like: