Speaking of JavaScript, here’s a Node.js-based client for the JSON REST API that’ll eventually make its way into WordPress core.
Unless something totally crazy happens, WordPress is going to be written in PHP for the foreseeable future. However, the more that core turns into an API endpoint for all the JavaScript that’s being added to it, the less beholden the project has to be to PHP.
So maybe you should think about buying a JavaScript book or something.
Or don’t. It’s your fucking livelihood.
It’s nice that someone is working on an alternative to the Akismet anti-spam plugin monopoly.
With that being said, I saw a server load quadruple [from 4 to 16] in under 3 minutes after enabling the plugin on a friend’s site. It was right in the middle of being mercilessly hammered by spammers, but I don’t see how that should matter. Especially when their whole angle involves making a user’s browser solve a math problem.
Maybe they still have a little more work to do.
This is tempting. Extremely tempting.
Perhaps I should dedicate some time to playing with this over the long holiday weekend.
It’s nice to see that the PHP team isn’t taking HHVM lying down. We have to wait for PHP 5.7 to get PHPNG and it’s 20% performance increase though.
If you’re the type who runs his/her own server, there are test build instructions. So maybe you don’t have to wait. But I wouldn’t use this in production. Not yet, anyway.
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.