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 […] #
Marco Rogers: Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions. We need to relearn what the web is capable of and go back to […] #
NASA’s image of the day is a gold mine for new wallpapers. #
If you’re a software engineer, you should check out How Git Works by Julia Evans. I purchased it last week, but only paged through so far. And then I was looking at a Mastodon thread and Julia blew my mind with git log -S: find every commit that added or removed some text. Of course […] #
RSS blogrolls are a federated social network: As a starting place I manually identified twenty websites with OPML blogrolls. From these I can follow links to find 150 distinct websites. Several of the links go to YouTube pages, reminding us that RSS isn’t just for blogs. The network is up to 1700 feeds. It’s already […] #
Simon Willison on link blogs: Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it’s worth checking out. People have commented on links they found on social media for many years. For some reason the big white canvas of […] #
