• My Two Cents on Two Factor

    Two-factor authentication should (imho) be in core, but core can’t always provide the best ways to accomplish it, for example, text messaging which requires external APIs. What I see the best fit being, is this: There is a framework for Two-Factor Authentication in core, that provides two free no-api-required methods for users to select to…

  • ComicPress and Jetpack Photon

    Howdy, all! Just a bit of a reminder if you’re a webcomic creator, and you’re running your webcomics on WordPress, you can get a pretty big performance improvement (and savings on bandwidth costs) if you activate the Photon module in Jetpack. http://jetpack.me/support/photon/ Photon is a free Image Content Delivery Network hosted by WordPress.com. For most…

  • Protected: Pay no heed to the man behind the curtain!

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  • Translations Abstraction Proposal for WordPress

    plugins.svn.wordpress.org: There is a new special folder in Plugin Repositories, at /assets/i18n/ A /assets/trunk.pot file should probably be maintained for support of repositories where trunk is their public release version. Whenever a new tag is created, for example /tag/3.2-beta1 (a script automatically|the plugin author) generates the po/mo source files, and stores it as /assets/i18n/3.2-beta1.pot or…

  • New Automattic Timbuk2

  • How to do emails awesome:

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  • How to pronounce ‘gif’

    Creator of the GIF: "It is a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif.' End of story." http://t.co/jOXN1Hgv3p — The New York Times (@nytimes) May 21, 2013

  • Useful Starting Reads on Eastern Orthodoxy

    The Orthodox Way, by Kallistos Ware Speaking the Truth in Love, by Thomas Hopko (podcast) The Mountain of Silence, by Kyriakos Markides (more on Monasticism than the church itself) http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/

  • Automattic!

    Starting Monday, April 22nd, I’ll be working full time at Automattic! When I first started working at Speck Products, I’d remarked to a friend that I thought I’d be there for good.  I loved the environment, I loved the people, and I said the only reason I’d ever leave is if Automattic ever wanted me and I could spend…

  • Quick and Dirty Parallax

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