Author: Josh

Social Media is Broken
Harrison Ford Lifetime Achievement Award
Happy Birthday Frank
Latte Art of the Day
Christmas Lights Plugin
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Christian Selig on the iPhone Air cameras: The only area I’ve kinda been disappointed on is the camera situation. No, not the telephoto, I really never used that personally. And not the ultrawide, for me that just felt too wide. But the ultrawide did allow for awesome macro capabilities that this iPhone Air is sorely lacking. This […] #
Minimum Viable Blog
Mozilla’s CEO weighs in on U.S. v. Google
I’m happy to see WordPress is adopting bcrypt for password hashes. I have been following the trac ticket for over 10 years 🤯 Quite a few people got props on this one. If you’re not familiar, until now WordPress used a library called phpass for hashing passwords. WordPress has a history of maintaining backwards compatibility […] #
Matt Mullenweg on WordPress security: One problem we’ve had on WordPress.com is we do all these amazing things and don’t tell anyone about it My favorite example of this is the global CDN that Automattic operates in its own data centers. There are a lot of ways to measure the impact of this, but one way is […] #
CSS Verified Badge
Simon Willison on “vibe coding” with LLMs: Most of the work we do as software engineers is about evolving existing systems, and for those the quality and understandability of the underlying code is crucial. For experiments and low-stake projects where you want to explore what’s possible and build fun prototypes? Go wild! But stay aware […] #
WordPress Web Performance Optimization
Lazy Load WordPress Images
Mozilla Money Problems
Provisional Authorization of User Notifications
Cloudflare as a Free CDN for WordPress Assets
I’m still proud to have helped bring whitehouse.gov to WP VIP. #
Simplicity First: Why Readable Code Is Better Code