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Category: How It Is

Making philosophy about the why behind technical things.

22 February, 20123 September, 2013How It Is

Risk vs Transparency

I see what you're thinking

The risk of keeping a public list of all ‘naughty WordPress plugins’ does not outweigh the benefits of having such a list.

13 February, 2012How It Is

“This Needs Support” vs “This Needs Patching”

When you say ‘this is broken, fix it!’ that’s probably not what’s going to happen. User expectations, process comprehension, and a little understand goes a long way.

7 February, 20125 August, 2015How It Is

Simply Complicated

Tumblr Front Page

The tl;dr for this post is that I don’t like Tumblr, and find it a clunky, poorly supported psudeo-blog and you should use something else.

20 January, 201220 January, 2012How It Is

Large Files Don’t Move Well

Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.

Half essay, half nerdy. Why large files don’t move well, some alternatives and options, and why this killed MegaUpload.

10 January, 201214 November, 2013How It Is

WordPress › Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

We are not a small group. More than 60 million people use WordPress — it’s said to power about 15% of the […]

1 January, 201222 April, 2012How It Is

Why You Shouldn’t Use Plugins

Plugins are dangerous! They’ll break your site! That’s why you should totally hack core yourself! Wait… no, no you should never do that!

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