Archives: Notes

  • I’ve tried staying quiet about this but… it bothers me the only mention of security is the presumption a plugin will have flaws. Well, yes, if you prioritize the misspelling WordPress over escaping and sanitization, that’s exactly what will happen.

    https://poststatus.com/what-agencies-are-looking-for-in-your-code/

  • What you young’uns don’t understand is that CSS-Tricks used to be run by some guy called Chris as a side gig. I think he runs a farm out west these days.

  • I’m excited about this too, for a while I was getting daily review requests from Jonny & his team mates for one performance improvement or another. *Even better with a persistent cache.*

  • Me: Making architecture decisions for a CMS as popular as WordPress is really hard.
    CSS working group: Hold my beer! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/03/14/if-or-when/

  • When discussing differences in musical taste with your partner, it turns out “well, that’s because you’re older than me” is not the correct answer.

  • World: please do not be alarmed if you see an Australian post a photo of their 20-year-old selves smoking a bong. It’s actually pretty damn cool.

  • You can increase the diversity of applicants in a call for speakers with this one weird trick: paying your speakers. Include the amount in the CFP and reach out to underrepresented groups highlighting the honorarium. Read an @ffconf CFP and do that.

  • Games ending in le are to 2022 as startups ending in ly are to 2012.

  • Hey, how about we never forget and certainly never forgive Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters for promoting & fundraising for AIDS denialism. https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c

  • Using six cell little killers for a Sudoku based multi-factor authentication challenge.