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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.
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Sexy Beasts
While I was in Austin last week, work graced me with a new set of business cards. And they’ve got my new(ish) title! Don’t they look fucking handsome? I’m sure that everyone I hand them to will silently curse me for their non-standard size, but maybe that’ll become less of an issue once they notice…
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Should I Use A Carousel?
SPOILER ALERT: The answer is always going to be “no”.
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Dashboard makeover removes “Incoming Links” widget
Much like Jeffro, I’ve found Incoming Links to be practically useless for the past few years, so I’m glad they’re finally killing the widget.