Jason Cosper

Semper fudge.

Asides

  • Sophomore Release

    Out of 2732 user submissions, I just collected and added 35 words & phrases to Hipster Ipsum. That means that only 1.281% of the stuff that people gave me was actually usable. The rest of it was names of people, inside jokes, repeats of stuff already in the database and a staggering amount of slurs and…

  • Y’all Reddle For This?

    Like the new theme? Want to play with it on your site? Well, it’s not in the WordPress theme directory just yet. But it is in Automattic’s SVN repository… Grab Reddle via SVN and give it a whirl. And if you want to see what it’s capable of (or I’ve managed to change my theme) check out…

  • Further Adventures in Ipsum

    Huh. A little Hipster Ipsum made it into Android’s Design Pattern documentation. P.S. Can’t find it? Look here. [via]

  • Check Yr Head

    I just found out about head.js, but it definitely seems like something I’m going to have to play with really soon. Fortunately, somebody has already made a WordPress plugin that leverages it — so I guess that I don’t really have much of an excuse for not looking into it now, do I? [via]

  • Moving Day

    If anyone notices a significant speed increase on the site here, it’s because I’ve finally gotten around to moving it from a well meaning but poky VPS over at DreamHost to a shiny new supercharged account at WP Engine.

  • CSS3 Hyphenation

    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?

  • “State of the Word” Slides

    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.

  • API Endpoint

    Hey nerds! A generous soul has gone and created an API endpoint for Hipster Ipsum.

  • Wordthumb

    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]

  • No More TimThumb

    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.