Impressive response from a service that has been consistently fast and reliable for me. I’ve been completely taking that reliability for granted (I didn’t notice the downtime myself).
What’s your opinion on Robert X. Cringely’s recent post on his blog predicting that there will soon be an “insurrection” at Apple and Tim Cook won’t be the CEO for much longer?
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The sad thing is that the prediction isn’t even the most batshit crazy one that Cringely has this year.
I don’t read sites like TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, etc.; I skim them for information. I’ve subscribed to MG’s ParisLemon site recently and am quite enjoying it. As usual, what folks want to write about is more interesting than what they have to write about.
WordPress 3.3 support is hot on its heels. Really!
Looking forward to BBEdit support to follow as well – I should probably send an appropriate bribe.
What we should be talking about is how to get better alignment, how to build systems and content that is better for, you know, actual human beings to use and enjoy.
Great post by John.
“Bear proof garbage cans are required and must be latched when placed in the street for pick up.” Ok then.
Glad to report my FastMail.fm folders were recovered (was a folder listing bug on their end). No data loss.
WP_Query by “Standard” Post Format
When using WordPress post formats, you’ll quickly start looking for a way to query WordPress content by the “standard” post format. This Trac ticket seeks to work on solving this. The implementation there handles URL-based requests:
http://example.com/type/standard/
quite nicely. However the code in that patch doesn’t (yet) handle direct WP_Query calls.
I was hacking on this a bit on my own before finding the (much more elegant and complete) code that Nacin contributed. I came up with some working code that does work with WP_Query calls, which I posted in this Gist:
Note that this doesn’t create the taxonomy term and do some of the other nice set-up that Nacin’s code does. It could use a bit of cleanup – improvements are very welcome. This isn’t going to be at the top of my list for a while, so I wanted to make sure I published the code so anyone else who is interested can take a stab at merging the two approaches.
For my own usage, I wanted to have the list of recent “standard” posts that you see in my sidebar. To create this, I enabled the code in the Gist above, then made a slight mod to the Recent Posts widget that is included in core. If you’ve wanted the same, please grab the code and enjoy.
Note for future visitors: this code is working as desired with WordPress 3.3.x, but will hopefully not be needed in some future version.
Eric does a great video interview about the Lytro camera. I’m very excited to get one of these.
I think it’s “better” that another FastMail.fm user is experiencing the same problem, right? http://bit.ly/AsS5Up
Just experienced my first ever data loss issue with FastMail.fm. Hoping they can recover on their side, but glad I have backups on my end.
I remember having (and eating) at least one of these when I was a kid.
How weird is it that Google just released a new flagship OS and is going on and on about how great it is, but the vast majority of users have absolutely no access to it? Worse, most have absolutely no clue when — or if – they’ll ever have access to it.
I’m shocked.
Ok 2012, how about easing up for just a few days and letting me catch up a bit…