Author: Jason Cosper
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Hashcash
It’s nice that someone is working on an alternative to the Akismet anti-spam plugin monopoly. With that being said, I saw a server load quadruple [from 4 to 16] in under 3 minutes after enabling the plugin on a friend’s site. It was right in the middle of being mercilessly hammered by spammers, but I…
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WordPress on nginx + HHVM with Heroku Buildpacks
This is tempting. Extremely tempting. Perhaps I should dedicate some time to playing with this over the long holiday weekend.
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PHPNG devs boasts major WordPress performance increases
It’s nice to see that the PHP team isn’t taking HHVM lying down. We have to wait for PHP 5.7 to get PHPNG and it’s 20% performance increase though. If you’re the type who runs his/her own server, there are test build instructions. So maybe you don’t have to wait. But I wouldn’t use this…
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Improving the URL bar
This idea is a pretty divisive issue in the web development and security communities, but I’m really into it. If you’d like to try it out, load up a copy of Chrome Canary and visit chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox.
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443s & Heartbleed
We are building the most important technologies for the global economy on shockingly underfunded infrastructure. We are truly living through Code in the Age of Cholera. Dan Kaminsky’s thoughts on Heartbleed — and the lessons we can learn from this whole crazy-ass scramble — are fantastic and worth your time. Especially if you give even half…
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March Badness
Despite not following NCAA basketball, I was lured into participating in a work bracket with the promise of prizes. So I did the lazy thing and took the President’s bracket and tweaked it with Nate Silver’s predictions. At first, I my picks were on fire. I was tied for first with a coworker who I…
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The qualities of a great WordPress contributor
Required reading from Nacin for any aspiring WordPress core contributor.
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Debug Bar Slow Actions
Debug Bar Slow Actions is an extension for the popular Debug Bar plugin. It adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request. Konstantin has done a great job with this. If you do any amount of site troubleshooting & optimizing, this is worth…
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Writing Open Source Code (Or “Here Be Dragons”)
Great shit from Tom McFarlin that should be required reading for every new open source developer.
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The Code History of WordPress
Nice history lesson from Marko Heijnen.
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WP Security Audit Log
Very nice, comprehensive activity logging plugin. Now with Multisite support.
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When to use target=”_blank”
TL;DR: Almost never.
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Plugin Organizer
Plugin Organizer adds a whole new level of optimization to WordPress. When activated, you can selectively disable plugins on sections of your site and re-order how they’re loaded. I’m seriously going to have to carve out some time this weekend to fuck around with this.
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Good People of WordPress: We are Fighting a War
Some good shit from Rami Abraham. Open-source communities are the front lines against a force few will ever comprehend. WordPress is one of the most influential and powerful of open-source communities on the Internet. Who is our enemy? Closed-source content management systems, sketchy data-mining practices, terrible privacy policies, and the un-ending, Draconian greed of so…
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Good First Bug
Want to become a core contributor? Do you have absolutely no idea where to start? Consider keeping an eye on the good-first-bug tag on Trac.
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Git mirrors for WordPress
For all practical purposes, the SVN and Git repositories are now equals. Pick your poison; use whatever you’d like for all your development and deployment needs. Fuck. Yes.
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Charlie India Oscar
Until a recent episode of 99% Invisible, I had no idea that You Are Listening To had a numbers station child site. But it does. And it’s pretty amazing. I’ll go ahead and spare you from my amateur synopsis of numbers stations. Instead, load up You are listening to Numbers Stations in a new tab and spend a little quality…
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Query Monitor
In order to do a few clever things, Query Monitor loads earlier than you ever thought humanly possible (almost). It does this by symlinking a custom db.php in your WP_CONTENT_DIR. This file (when present) gets included before the database driver is loaded, meaning this portion of Query Monitor loads before WordPress even engages its brain.…
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Hexeosis
I am basically in love with every animated gif that gets posted over on hexeosis. If you’ve never seen any of his work, go dig through the archives. You won’t be sorry.
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Fix Your Boring Slides
Sage wisdom from Andy Baio. Every last WordCamp speaker needs to read this. Stat.