Now that the most recent versions of Safari & Firefox support proper hyphenation via CSS3, I kind of want to implement it on my sites. But thanks to Microsoft Word, I also have some really strong feelings against auto-hyphenation.
*sigh* What’s a nerd to do?
Michael Pick posted his slide design notes for Matt Mullenweg‘s beautiful “State of the Word 2011” presentation and they are totally worth your time.
Seriously. Read it now and thank me later.
Hey nerds! A generous soul has gone and created an API endpoint for Hipster Ipsum.
Huh. Someone went and made a t-shirt inspired by Hipster Ipsum. And they even gave it the Experimental Jetset treatment.
It only appears to be on sale for the next 6 hours tho. And even after the AUD to USD conversion, it’s still pretty close to $40. So if you want it and don’t mind shelling out a little money, act fast.
Damn. It’s been kind of a big week for Hipster Ipsum. Like linked on Kottke, Boing Boing, swissmiss & the Urban Outfitters blog big.
While I never intended for it to be anything more than something a few friends would laugh at, all of this attention is compelling me to add a couple new features. Hopefully I’ll find a little time in the next week to do both a “work safe” filter and a “submit a word” form, but I’m not going to go and make any grand promises.
At the end of the day, I’m just happy that people are finding something that I made funny (and/or useful) and I don’t want to squander that. So if anyone has suggestions for features, let me know!
Update: I’ve gone ahead and made the whole site work safe by cutting the instances of “fuck” and “shit” out of the database. Now you can use the output for whatever work related designs you’d like.
Update: I added chartbeat to the site just to keep an eye on things and, well, holy crap.
Update: I put a “submit a word” form up yesterday, but we ran into the submission limit for the free account on Wufoo. I’ve since replaced it with a form I slapped together in Google Docs. I really hope I can get some time to go thru the suggestions soon and hand pick/add some of the better ones to the site. Thanks again for all the love, everyone!
Since I’m downright stubborn about switching to Chrome, I was really happy to see that someone had tried to emulate its location bar with Safari Omnibar. It’s got a little way to go still, but it’s got enough promise for me to keep it installed.
Now all I have to do is break my habit of hitting CMD + L followed by a quick Tab to get me to the search field and I’ll be golden.
*sigh* I’ll never get tired of looking at this city all lit up.
For the folks who don’t have the time or the technical knowledge to change over to the Post Thumbnail support built into WordPress, WordThumb (a secure fork & rewrite of TimThumb) should make tightening up your sites a bit easier. [via]
So Google’s Page Speed Service looks pretty great – but if you get into the beta and upload a lot of media to your WordPress site, you’re going to run into a few snags. The cap for their caching proxy is currently set at 2MB. And while that’s fine for most folks, it’s not really going to fly for photobloggers and the like.
Fortunately, there’s a workaround…
All you need to do is create a subdomain (like admin.domain.com) and point it at your current WordPress install’s directory. If you don’t know how to do this, your web host’s support should be able to help you out.
Now you’ll notice that when you visit that new URL, you’ll get redirected to your main domain. WordPress needs to know to not do that, so just add this code to your “wp-config.php” file:
define('WP_HOME', 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
It doesn’t really matter where you drop it, but I like to put this sort of stuff after the MySQL information. Then just save out the file, kill your browser cache and try to visit your subdomain now.
So long as things don’t keep trying to redirect you, log into your WordPress Dashboard (admin.domain.com/wp-admin/) and you should be able to post and upload files without any issues.
Simple enough, right?
With all of the hubbub around TimThumb, it’s probably a good time to point people to this handy guide on replacing it with functionality that’s already baked into WordPress.
