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.
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 a shit about open source software & security.
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 know spent way more time on his picks. I was all:
But then the Sweet Sixteen happened this weekend. Which knocked my winner (Arizona) out and only one of my picks advanced to the Final Four. Now I’m like:
It’s disappointing after getting off to such a strong start, but I actually understand why people get into it now. And, I’m actually looking forward to next year. So that’s something, right?
Required reading from Nacin for any aspiring WordPress core contributor.
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 an install.
Great shit from Tom McFarlin that should be required reading for every new open source developer.
Very nice, comprehensive activity logging plugin. Now with Multisite support.
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.
