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Mindfulness is Hard
Ever since I listened to this episode of The Tim Ferriss Show in December, I’ve been thinking about trying to see if I can manage to go 21 days without complaining to help improve my mindfulness. The plan is a fairly simple one: Put on one of those silicone (or rubber) bracelets. Come up with a list…
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Podcasting Preflight
After guesting on a few podcasts over the past year, I’ve come up with what I feel is a simple (but thorough) preflight checklist of the things that I like to do to before recording. These things help normalize my environment and minimize the majority of technical difficulties that I run into. Anyway… In an attempt…
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Reasons for Custom Tables and an API
When it comes to storing large amounts of data that does not very closely mimic existing WordPress database schemas, you should absolutely use custom tables. Choosing not to use a custom table will likely cause more harm than good. While it’s possible to store almost anything you want as a custom post type in the wp_posts…
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Gotta Podcatch ‘Em All
A couple great WordPress podcasts — WP Dev Table and WPwatercooler — have been nice enough to have me on as a guest recently. Instead of having you dig around each site to find the episodes, I’ll just go ahead and leave them here… As you can see, I’m a pretty insightful guy. Humble too. Want to have me…
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The Big List of Naughty Strings
The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated and manual QA testing; useful for whenever your QA engineer walks into a bar.
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What to Expect When Expecting Content Security Policy Reports
Zach Tollman goes deep on Content Security Policy reporting in browsers.
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Shortcake Bakery
Shortcake + Shortcake Bakery = Easy PDF, JavaScript, iFrame, Facebook post, Scribd & Genius embeds from the team at Fusion. There’s also a really nice image comparison tool. If you’re into that sort of thing. Which I am.
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Scaling WordPress queries with Elasticsearch
File under: Cool shit you can do with Elasticsearch.
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Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Despite using the less command frequently, I had no clue that it could be used in place of tail -f. So useful!
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The WordPress Talent Shortage Might Be a Pricing Problem
An interesting article — and ensuing discussion down in the comments — from Andy Adams. Definitely worth a read if you make even just a fraction of your living from doing WordPress dev work.