Year: 2011
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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…
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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…
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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:
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Lytro
Hello, Lytro. You’re a mighty handsome gentleman, aren’t you? One day, I will be able to justify purchasing you. Until then, I’ll just be hanging out over here. Staring longingly. *sigh*
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Hey. How’s it going? I’ve got some pretty major news that I’ve been sitting on for a while now, but the time has come where I can finally share it. Ready? Okay. Here we go… After October 26th, I will no longer work with the very amazing and inspiring people at DreamHost. Considering that I’ve been…
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Goodbye, Betty Jean
Shit. I just found out that my grandma Betty passed away this morning and I am absolutely gutted. I knew this day was coming and I tried bracing myself for it, but the very second I heard the news, my heart started to ache. Knowing that I’ll never get to see her smile or share…
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Happy 1st Anniversary, Sarah!
Sarah, This past year has been the best one of my life. I’m so happy that I get to spend every single day with you and Rowdy. I can’t think of a better person to wake up to in the morning or go to sleep with at night. You are my heart. You are the…
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Why I Prefer WP Super Cache
Even though W3 Total Cache seems to have become the more popular and robust option for WordPress caching, I’ve stuck by and continue to recommend WP Super Cache. Why? In a word: simplicity. Now I could write a big long entry on why simplicity trumps a crapton of options and flexibility, but I’d rather have a…
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CSS3 Hyphenation
Now that the most recent versions of Safari & Firefox support proper hyphenation via CSS3, I kind of want to implement it on my sites. But thanks to Microsoft Word, I also have some really strong feelings against auto-hyphenation. *sigh* What’s a nerd to do?
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“State of the Word” Slides
Michael Pick posted his slide design notes for Matt Mullenweg‘s beautiful “State of the Word 2011” presentation and they are totally worth your time. Seriously. Read it now and thank me later.
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API Endpoint
Hey nerds! A generous soul has gone and created an API endpoint for Hipster Ipsum.
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Hipster Ipsum: The T-Shirt
Huh. Someone went and made a t-shirt inspired by Hipster Ipsum. And they even gave it the Experimental Jetset treatment. It only appears to be on sale for the next 6 hours tho. And even after the AUD to USD conversion, it’s still pretty close to $40. So if you want it and don’t mind…
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But a -1 to Actually Being Cool
Me: You’re a Latina. You have a culture. I’m a WASP. Nerd culture is all I’ve got. Her: You’re grasping at straws. Me: I might be, but those straws are +2 to my constitution.
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On Being A Sellout
Damn. It’s been kind of a big week for Hipster Ipsum. Like linked on Kottke, Boing Boing, swissmiss & the Urban Outfitters blog big. While I never intended for it to be anything more than something a few friends would laugh at, all of this attention is compelling me to add a couple new features. Hopefully…
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Omnibar? Wunderbar!
Since I’m downright stubborn about switching to Chrome, I was really happy to see that someone had tried to emulate its location bar with Safari Omnibar. It’s got a little way to go still, but it’s got enough promise for me to keep it installed. Now all I have to do is break my habit…
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Blinded By The Lights
*sigh* I’ll never get tired of looking at this city all lit up.
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Wordthumb
For the folks who don’t have the time or the technical knowledge to change over to the Post Thumbnail support built into WordPress, WordThumb (a secure fork & rewrite of TimThumb) should make tightening up your sites a bit easier. [via]
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Google Page Speed Service and Large Uploads in WordPress
So Google’s Page Speed Service looks pretty great – but if you get into the beta and upload a lot of media to your WordPress site, you’re going to run into a few snags. The cap for their caching proxy is currently set at 2MB. And while that’s fine for most folks, it’s not really going…
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No More TimThumb
With all of the hubbub around TimThumb, it’s probably a good time to point people to this handy guide on replacing it with functionality that’s already baked into WordPress.
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Artisan 8-bit Photo Booth
If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, you probably don’t know that I launched a new project last week. So take a minute and go check out Hipster Ipsum. You know, if you want to. I’ll admit that it’s kind of stupid — and making fun of hipsters is way played out by now — but this…