Now in “Late Beta” – and, for a limited time, I’ll offer free styling, installation, and configuration to anyone who wants to try it out!
Web Design
Is This Solution for Caches vs Cookies Going to Get Me in Trouble?
I added the line to my jQuery script, and, *voila!*, WPSC, W3 Total Cache, and Comet Cache are all acting like I want them to. After I use the script, and reload, I get fresh pages.
Commenter Ignore Button Preview Video
With this #WordPress Plugin I bestow upon humankind the greatest gift that has ever been given it so far…
The Surprising 1960s Origins Of Hillary’s Official Typeface – Co.Design
At its core, the design of Sharp Sans is based upon the circle. When you look at Sharp Sans, you can see that every curve is circular, from the aperture of the “o” to the inner curve of the “s.”…
The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit – WIRED
The idea of funding content with micropayments even predates the web itself. But Brendan Eich, the controversial engineer who helped build the popular Mozilla web browser and created JavaScript—the most widely used programming language on the web—has a plan to…
Brendan Eich: Introducing Brave Payments – Brave Blog
As part of our 0.11.6 release of Brave for desktop today, we are pleased to announce the beta version of Brave Payments, our Bitcoin-based micropayments system that can automatically and privately pay your favorite websites. For the first time in…
Drilling a Hole in the Universe with WP_Query in a Shortcode
Placing a post whose content would include a version of the post itself (containing a version of the post itself, and so on) produces a site-crashing “reset overload” (ERR_CONNECTION_RESET). It’s easy to create the danger inadvertently, but also easy to prevent.
Posted in Using WordPress, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, has_shortcode(), Link-Posts Aggregator, strip_shortcodes(), The Loop
Scrap It 2
A salvage of residual value might still be possible, and a rescue or turnaround remains conceivable even now, but I would not be surprised if by this time next year there is no “Ordinary Times.”
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times
Scrap It and Start Over
A failure presents a limited range of options: scrap, salvage, or repair. Though it feels like we’ve done this before, let’s try “repair” one more time. Why? The site makes no sense as an enterprise – decreasingly as any kind…
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times, Internet
Troll-Stomping and Other Sensible Things: #WordPress Plug-In Beta Test/Preview
It occurred to me the other day or week that it wouldn’t be hard to create a jQuery-enabled ignore button, and it wouldn’t be too hard to add cookies to make the ignoring persistent, and it wouldn’t be too hard to un-ignore, too. While I was at it, and feeling that enabling ignore was kind of negative, how about making it possible to highlight commenters using about the same methods used to ignore them, or particular comments, so they’re easy to pick out in a thread?