Year: 2012
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Social Login Buttons Suck
The MailChimp blog’s got a pretty compelling argument against social login buttons. I would say that I could agree more, but I can’t. It’s not possible. [via]
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xkcd in LaTeX
I seriously love that the nerds over on Stack Exchange are working out how to do xkcd style graphs in TeX. My only question is, now that the info’s out there, who’s working on the WordPress plugin to leverage the LaTeX support built into Jetpack?
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Persona
I’ve been playing around with Mozilla’s Persona a bit lately, so I was thrilled to find a WordPress plugin that makes integrating it ridiculously easy.
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So Simple
So Simple is an extremely minimal, responsive WordPress theme focused on readability. And it’s just $1.99. At that price, I’m tempted to get a license just so I can dick around with it…
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Han Sparato Per Primo
Even though we have about 20 prints that need framing and hanging, Sarah got me this badass unofficial Italian Star Wars poster for our anniversary. It’s going to look super tight hanging over the desk in my office, isn’t it? Okay. You have no idea what my office looks like. But trust me, it’s going…
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Poster
Normally, I ignore iOS based WordPress post editors, but I was tipped off to Poster while listening to this week’s episode of Systematic and it actually looks crazy nice. Besides being easy on the eyes, it’s got Dropbox integration, Markdown support, custom fields, post format selection and even slug editing. Slug editing! From a 3rd…
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The New Myspace
I never thought I’d say this, but the new Mypace looks amazing! It’s carrying around the taint of the original Myspace though, so people might end up sleeping on it. Still, if it lives up to even half of what they’re showing off, I’ll gladly give it another try. [via]
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Edge Web Fonts
Adobe’s Edge Web Fonts look like a pretty nice alternative to Google’s Web Fonts. I guess I’ll have to see which one is faster and report back… [via]
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Ooooh, Columns!
I couldn’t agree more with Justin Tadlock’s feelings about the prevalence of [column] shortcodes. They’ve been getting baked into a ton of new WordPress themes and there’s no standard for how they’re implemented. Besides: Users lose this functionality when they switch to a theme that doesn’t support their previous theme’s shortcodes, leaving bracketed words in…
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Developers
Say, man, do you use the Developer plugin for WordPress? No? Well, it’d be a lot cooler if you did…
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Ag
I’ve been using ack instead of grep for a few months now. And things have been going pretty great on that front. But One Thing Well just pointed at the (unfortunately named) Silver Searcher — which claims to deliver results 3 to 5 times faster than ack. Mercifully, the command is “ag” and it can be quickly installed via Homebrew. So I’ll…
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Antik
It’s a good thing the TikTok team had an analog watch module to fall back on after Apple changed the iPod nano form factor. If they decide to keep doing the whole modular watch thing, they should at least be able to change up the form factor to something a little less clunky. So that’s a…
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Socialite
I normally have a pretty strong dislike for social sharing buttons — mainly because of the overall load time they add to a site — however, Socialite.js (and its WordPress-ready counterpart) may have softened my opinion on them. By loading the social sharing buttons asynchronously, it can cut the amount of initial page requests down considerably. So…
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Xiki
Damn. Xiki just got added to my “fuck with later” pile. [via]
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The Auditor
Interconnect IT’s The Auditor looks like a really nice audit log plugin for WordPress. But it retails for $249. That means that I’m not going to get to play with it any time soon. I wonder if I can get away with expensing it…
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Super Hexagon
Practically every spare moment I’ve had over the last few days has been filled with very short rounds of Super Hexagon for iOS. It can be sort of hard at first — at least until you get the hang of the controls — but it’s also insanely addictive. If you value your free time, stay away at…
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I’m Feeling Saucy
While trying to get Internet Explorer 8 installed on my Mac via the usually handy ievms — don’t bother, the 2nd and 4th RAR file are corrupted — I stumbled across Sauce Labs. Sauce Labs offers cross browser testing environments on totally clean virtual machines. That means no more having to deal with a bunch of…
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De-dupe “Open With…”
A few weeks ago, I started seeing multiple entries for Pixelmator in the “Open With…” area of my Finder’s contextual menu. And while I thought it was weird, I didn’t find it too annoying. So I just ignored it. Then, last night, I saw multiple entries for Simple Comic when I was trying to open a…
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Cache Rules Everything Around Me
When it comes to speed, one of the easiest things someone hosting their own WordPress install can do is enable expires headers. Expires headers basically tell the browsers visiting your site to cache the static stuff — like images and scripts — so they don’t have to be downloaded every time one of your pages needs…
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Why jsDelivr, Doesn’t
On the surface, jsDelivr sounds great. The WPMU post touting the service earlier in the week made a pretty compelling case for using it. Install their plugin, let it scan your site and they’ll host your JavaScript on MaxCDN’s super-fast network. What’s more, their CDN is already stocked with a bunch of great JavaScript and jQuery plugins.…