Use Chrome’s Developer Tools a lot? If you do, you’re going to love this laundry list of tricks. [via]
Category: Geekery
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Social Login Buttons Suck
The MailChimp blog’s got a pretty compelling argument against social login buttons. I would say that I could agree more, but I can’t. It’s not possible. [via]
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xkcd in LaTeX
I seriously love that the nerds over on Stack Exchange are working out how to do xkcd style graphs in TeX.
My only question is, now that the info’s out there, who’s working on the WordPress plugin to leverage the LaTeX support built into Jetpack?
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Persona
I’ve been playing around with Mozilla’s Persona a bit lately, so I was thrilled to find a WordPress plugin that makes integrating it ridiculously easy.
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Han Sparato Per Primo
Even though we have about 20 prints that need framing and hanging, Sarah got me this badass unofficial Italian Star Wars poster for our anniversary. It’s going to look super tight hanging over the desk in my office, isn’t it?
Okay. You have no idea what my office looks like. But trust me, it’s going to look great.
Best. Wife. Ever.
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Poster
Normally, I ignore iOS based WordPress post editors, but I was tipped off to Poster while listening to this week’s episode of Systematic and it actually looks crazy nice. Besides being easy on the eyes, it’s got Dropbox integration, Markdown support, custom fields, post format selection and even slug editing.
Slug editing! From a 3rd party WordPress client for iOS!
Hrmph. Maybe I should be getting more excited about the Markdown and Dropbox support. I mean, those things will have more impact on my workflow than slug editing ever will. Still, this is a total steal at $3.99, right?
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The New Myspace
I never thought I’d say this, but the new Mypace looks amazing! It’s carrying around the taint of the original Myspace though, so people might end up sleeping on it. Still, if it lives up to even half of what they’re showing off, I’ll gladly give it another try. [via]
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Edge Web Fonts
Adobe’s Edge Web Fonts look like a pretty nice alternative to Google’s Web Fonts. I guess I’ll have to see which one is faster and report back… [via]
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Ooooh, Columns!
I couldn’t agree more with Justin Tadlock’s feelings about the prevalence of
[column]shortcodes. They’ve been getting baked into a ton of new WordPress themes and there’s no standard for how they’re implemented. Besides:Users lose this functionality when they switch to a theme that doesn’t support their previous theme’s shortcodes, leaving bracketed words in their content.
It’s just a big bag of hurt. So I love what he’s doing to address it…
His Grid Columns plugin allows folks to drop their post or page content into readymade columns, inside of existing themes, by using a fairly simple, straightforward shortcode. The documentation is a bit sparse right now — and I’m sure that’ll improve before this gets thrown into the official WordPress plugin repository — but I’m totally hoping this gets picked up by the theme community at large.