Jason Cosper

Jason Cosper
Jason Cosper
@cosper@jasoncosper.com

Have laptop, will travel.

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  • Deploy Elasticsearch on Google Compute Engine

    Thanks to Google, you can now quickly spin up an Elasticsearch instance for a few dollars a month. Couple that with WordPress plugins like ElasticPress & ES_WP_Query and you can get some pretty nice performance boosts in places where folks don’t normally bother to optimize.

  • WP Performance Profiler

    The crew at interconnect/it makes some quality stuff, so I’m pretty excited to try this out.

  • Finish One Thing Today

    It doesn’t have to be big. It doesn’t have to be important. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It doesn’t have to be revolutionary. It doesn’t have to be new. … It just needs to be finished. As somebody who has struggled with deadlines and perfectionism, I can totally get behind this.

  • The Personal Blog

    There is something about the personal blog, yourname.com, where you control everything and get to do whatever the hell pleases you. There is something about linking to one of those blogs and then saying something. It’s like having a conversation in public with each other. This is how blogging was in the early days. And this…

  • All the Options in the WordPress Theme Customizer

    In reality we’re taking the same problem of providing too many options and migrating them from the Dashboard to the WordPress Theme Customizer. Bummer. Tom McFarlin nails it once again.

  • wordpress-rest-api

    Speaking of JavaScript, here’s a Node.js-based client for the JSON REST API that’ll eventually make its way into WordPress core.

  • Is JavaScript taking over WordPress?

    Unless something totally crazy happens, WordPress is going to be written in PHP for the foreseeable future. However, the more that core turns into an API endpoint for all the JavaScript that’s being added to it, the less beholden the project has to be to PHP. So maybe you should think about buying a JavaScript…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…