Well, kind of. I was looking at the different header responses some sites produce when opening the favicon, and stumbled across this job invitation in the WordPress.com headers. X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. (Thanks Matt, but for now I’m happy where I [...]
It is the weirdest thing. I was having issues subscribing to blogs that is using pubsubhubbub.appspot.com using a Python script. It returned a 500 Internal Server error without fail. So I rewrote the process in PHP and like magic, it is gone… I used PHP and CURL to subscribe to the appspot service. In Python [...]
Okay, I’ve implemented this beast. Feeds that support Pubsubhubbub functionality will now be able to distribute their posts as they are published to Afrigator. Well, all but Blogger or Blogspot feeds as I’m having a weird issue with pubsubhubbub.appspot.com which is the hub for Blogger/Blogspot blogs. If you are using WordPress.com (i.e. yourname.wordpress.com) your good [...]
What a crazy name! Anyway, the idea is much cooler than what the name is. Basically, what Pubsubhubbub does is it enable your blog to broadcast your new blog posts as you publish them. Instead of aggregators like Afrigator periodically fetching and processing your feed, you tell Afrigator “HEY! Listen up! I’ve written something new [...]
HELP! I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia and being forced to post spam comments on blogs! If you don’t approve this they will kill me. They’re coming back now. Please send help! Well, dude, sorry to hear about your shit! Have a nice life, or should I say death? Anyway, R.I.P. and [...]
Geez, I’ve been under a rock it seems. The Prologue2 WordPress theme and the Press This! bookmarklet suddenly converted blogging into so much more fun! I’m kinda peeved that I didn’t do this sooner! Try it, you’ll love it!
Following my previous post on blog designs that are boring, I’ve started realstii.com as an experiment. I want to use it mainly for a little more serious thoughts. Thus far, it is not working out too bad, since it doesn’t take forever to customize those posts in that way. What does tend to take a [...]
I’ve been thinking about the way our blogs and templates look for a loooong time. It is boring. Even the best looking WordPress blogs like Matt Mullenweg and Sue Rutherford‘s blogs (which are fantastic designs) is, or rather become, boring. It might not be boring the first or second time you visit it, but after [...]
Every now and again I check my Akismet spam section in WordPress to see if there is legitimate comments that gets trapped as spam. So I notice a couple of comments from people I know well being trapped as spam. At first I thought that was strange and clicked the Approve link to un-spam it. [...]
Since my old theme broke when I upgraded to WordPress 2.8, I thought I’d systematically build a new theme. It is a work in progress and will probably stay that way for some time to come. I’ll work on it as time sees fit. And time is not kind to me lately. I find it [...]