Please remember, though, that there’s nothing better than a backup you make yourself. Take a moment to visit the Pinboard export page and grab your bookmarks every once in a while. They’re in a format that should import cleanly into one of my many competitors. Best of all, since those sites are free, you can test your backups right now. Go do it!
I’m a big fan of Pinboard (and of backups).
Hobbies are what the smartest people spend their time on when they aren’t constrained by near-term financial goals.
That’s how I got started contributing to (what became) WordPress.
To: Family & Friends
Date: February 19, 2013
Subject: Status Update
Hello All– Last Wednesday (nearly a week ago) I went in for follow-up appointment with the surgeon that performed my abdominal surgeries. Everything appears to be healing well and he removed the 22 staples from my main incision. His overarching message to me was to be patient. My body is doing a lot of work…
There are two kinds of people, those that have already had a hard drive failure and those that will have a hard drive failure. I lost hard drives and data back in 2006 and I’ve been properly paranoid about backups ever since. I care about my data. I care about my photos, about my code,…
I’ve upgraded this site to WordPress 3.5 (rc4) to help test the media compatibility changes we’ve got in place for an upcoming release of our FavePersonal theme. Please let me know if anything looks out of whack.
I’m taking Thanksgiving this year as an opportunity to thank some people who have helped shape my career. Eric Cheng – Eric and I had the opportunity to work together once his company acquired mine back in 2000. Eric and I were the corresponding UI leads for our companies, and I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity…
We recently added the ability to take RAMP for a test drive before you buy. On the RAMP page, click that “Demo” button to sign up and we’ll set up both a staging and production WordPress site for you – with RAMP installed and configured on both sites. You can log in, create and upload…
[…] since getting my iPad Mini I’ve barely touched my Nexus 7, and I’ve found the Mini to be just generally more enjoyable and useful for the lightweight sort of consumption-oriented tasks I’ve thrown at it.
The longer I use iOS the harder it is for me to feel productive on Android. I’m looking forward to getting my iPad mini and think I’ll probably relegate my Nexus 7 to a testing device for our front-end team at that time.
To compliment the screencast I did to demonstrate features of Social, I put together a quick (and very rough) walk through of some of the features of Twitter Tools 3.0. I found a bug there at the end. From my testing it looks like a multi-byte string length calculation bug (the apostrophe in is curly),…
Wherein I attempt to answer some of the more common questions I’ve seen surrounding yesterday’s launch of Twitter Tools 3.0. Why am I forced to use the Social plugin to use Twitter Tools? I assure you, no one is forcing you to do anything. Why is Twitter Tools now dependent on Social? When Twitter moved…
When I first started posting to Twitter I soon realized that I wanted to keep a copy of that content. Twitter Tools was born shortly thereafter. Since that time Twitter has evolved, WordPress has evolved, and my vision of how best to integrate the two has evolved with them. Twitter Tools 3.0 is a complete…
The patch I posted about previously to improve the slash handling within WordPress for 3.5 (which fixes some core bugs and fixes tons of developer custom code bugs) is still looking promising. After setting up my unit testing environment a few days back and talking with a colleague to verify the proper approach, I began…
For the last month or so I’ve been working on a patch to move the “stripslashes” functionality from the WordPress “model” API functions to the “controller” code (where it belongs). This change will mean that you don’t have to call add_magic_quotes() around your data when passing it to wp_insert_post(), wp_insert_user(), etc. As hardly any developers…
I came home this evening to non-working @centurylink DSL. I spent the next several hours on the phone with their tech support and the tech support for the NetGear modem. The CentryLink support insisted that my line tested fine and modem must have gone bad while I was at work. I thought this unlikely since…
The West Wing is now part of the free streaming video library for Prime subscribers on Amazon. Great feature or greatest feature ever?