WP_Query::get_posts has an NPath complexity of 1.43573394139742×10^48. This can also be expressed as: 1,435,733,941,397,422,709,124,940,625,188,500,371,668,992,000,000 Or 1.435 Quindecillion. This is 25 orders of magnitude greater than the number of stars in the visible universe. It is also the number of unit tests required to fully test WP_Query::get_posts. Hold up. Seriously? Shit.

A simple, but illuminating, visualization of the WordPress release cycle from WP Engineer. An aside: Over the life of WordPress, a major release has come out (on average) every 200.5 days. If the core devs manage to stay on schedule, it’ll be interesting to see what the rapid release of 3.7 & 3.8 do to…

Clever enqueue trick from Ben Gillbanks for anyone who spends time flipping between staging and production.

Keynote template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups. Nice! I’ll have to use it when I make my (erotic?) WordPress admin mockup site.

Yeah, alright. This is pretty old news. But it’s been a fantastic replacement for MAMP on my machine. If you’re not already using it, consider giving it a try.

Helen Hou-Sandí’s got a pretty great idea for folks looking to pitch in on core development: For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets,…

A beautiful, carefully curated list of both paid and free plugins. ᔥ

Business Insider on how Automattic manages their distributed workforce.

I want to go to there.