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Preconnect, prefetch, prerender…
Pretty great presentation from Google’s Ilya Grigorik on how you can make pages display even faster for your visitors.
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Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5
A comprehensive list of all the annoying, buggy shit that came along with iOS 7’s “upgrade” to Safari.
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Plugin Pug
Finally, a well written set of plugin tutorials for beginner and intermediate developers.
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Ridiculously smart password meter coming to WordPress 3.7
I’m totally fucking thrilled that 3.7 is using Dropbox’s zxcvbn library to fix the password strength meter.
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Front-end Editor
This reminds me a bit of Medium’s editor. Mainly the darkness. But I still really like it. I honestly hope they get enough work done on the plugin to ship it in 3.8.
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Please stop using “doing_it_wrong”
A plea for developers to quit being condescending assholes, by Tom McFarlin.
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Voce releases Afterburner playbooks
Voce Platform’s Ansible playbooks for their scalable WordPress configuration, Afterburner. Even if you don’t use the playbooks, there’s tons of great config tweaks that can be found by digging through the code.
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register_post_type() cheat sheet
Ridiculously handy custom post type cheat sheet from Justin Tadlock.
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Garbage collecting transients on database upgrades
This is going to possibly piss off a lot of half-assed plugin developers. But it’ll also be a big fucking deal if it makes it into 3.7 unscathed.
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WordPress as an App Platform?
Great article from 10up’s Jake Goldman on the future of WordPress as an application platform.