Category: Geekery
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Vagrant, Casked
While following the directions on how to set up 10up’s wonderful dev environment for WordPress, I noticed that Vagrant was using a .pkg installer. Now there’s nothing wrong with installing software that way. Hell, doing things via a graphical installer is easier for most end users. But Vagrant isn’t really something that was made for “end…
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Instant Scanner
Have you guys heard about Instant Server? It’s pretty rad. Basically, you push a button, wait a few seconds and they give you 35 minutes of usage on an SSH-able server. Once the 35 minutes is up, you can either pay to keep it running or they trash the server instance. Anyhow, after trying to…
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The Theme of Tomorrow, Today!
The WordPress team just dropped what they’re calling their “first draft” of Twenty Thirteen into the wild. And while I know that it’s not a finished product yet, I like it so much that I’ve decided to use it here. At least for a little bit. Can you blame me? I mean, just look at…
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The Standards Manual
I’ve always had a very large soft spot for subway maps. Especially the one Massimo Vignelli did for New York City back in the 70’s. So when this NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual surfaced earlier this week I was thrilled. Hopefully I can get a little time to obsessively study it this weekend.
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Clean Old WordPress Core Files
For the folks who haven’t committed to cleaning the unused core files out of their WordPress install, the Old Core Files plugin for WordPress looks like it should be useful. I only say “looks like” and “should” because I’m already tidying my site’s files on the regular. But this’ll definitely save me from having to do my…
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Smush.it Alternatives for WordPress
While helping a client come up with an alternative for the somewhat spotty Smush.it plugin for WordPress, I thought I’d do an extremely unscientific test to see what performed better. So I grabbed an image from Kanye Wes Anderson and got to compressing… Let’s start with the original 221549 byte image. Feel free to grab it (just click…
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Infinite Scroll
Otto‘s done a great tutorial on implementing one of the more glossed over parts of Jetpack 2.0: Infinite Scroll.
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Shumway
I’m all for Mozilla’s open SWF runtime project Shumway, but I really hope its main use is to support legacy Flash content. Because the last thing we should be doing at this point is encouraging people to use Flash instead of HTML5.
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Incidentals
Sweet! Cabel Sasser finally released the long-awaited soundtrack for The Incident! And it’s got a ton of bonus material to boot! So go grab it! Or else I’ll keep using exclamation points to end every sentence! FOREVER!
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Ghost
There’s been a lot of discussion around John O’Nolan’s Ghost today. And there should be. It’s a beautiful, blog focused reimagining of the WordPress dashboard that provides an alternative to what they’ve done with the dashboard on WordPress.com. A lot of the discussion is about how John would like to do this as a fork of…
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DDecode
While JSDetox is great for ripping through JavaScript malware, it doesn’t really handle obfuscated PHP. Fortunately, the gang at Sucuri has set up DDecode to process (and act as a sort of a pastebin for) those nasty little bits of PHP code.
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Memoir
I’ve been looking for a clean, single-column, responsive WordPress theme that supports post formats (or at least asides) for the past few weeks now. And honestly, I was beginning to think I’d have to roll my own. Now, that isn’t really an issue — especially since I’m comfortable with theming — but site design is…
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NESception
I totally love how this enterprising Instructables user crammed an entire NES console inside of a Super Mario Bros. cartridge!
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Unknown Pleasures
I’ve known the story of the cover artwork for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures for quite some time now, but it’s always a pleasure to be able to hear Peter Saville talk about it. [via]
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No Blog? Redirect!
While I do get to work on WordPress Multisite issues from time to time, I apparently don’t do it often enough to know about the NOBLOGREDIRECT constant… Basically, that tells your Multisite install to redirect to an alternate URL of your choosing if either: Registration is disabled. There’s no install that corresponds to the domain…
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Throw Away The Key
Not too long ago, I helped a friend clear out some malware on their WordPress site. In doing so, we went thru a pretty comprehensive site cleanup checklist: Deleted unused plugins & themes. Installed a fresh copy of everything. WordPress core Plugins Themes Double checked the .htaccess file. Changed every conceivable password. WordPress admin users FTP/SFTP/SSH…
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Gauge
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcqx06zsds?rel=0] I’m really happy that Venus Patrol tipped me off to Gauge [iOS]. Ever since I grabbed it a few days ago, I’ve been playing it kind of a lot. So much so that Super Hexagon is sitting there, getting all jealous. What can I say? I’m into the quirky humor, love the distractions that try to thwart your…
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Portable Starbucks
I wish the boring, stucco covered Starbucks they just opened in our neighborhood looked half as nice as this experimental LEED-certified one in Denver. C’est la vie, right?
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Sentry
Sentry is a realtime event logging and aggregation platform. It specializes in monitoring errors and extracting all the information needed to do a proper post-mortem without any of the hassle of the standard user feedback loop. I saw this and thought “Oh, that’s pretty handy.” Then I noticed that someone had thrown together a WordPress plugin……
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Chrome DevTools
Use Chrome’s Developer Tools a lot? If you do, you’re going to love this laundry list of tricks. [via]