Let's say you want to automatically delete specific sorts of comments from your WordPress blog. For example, immediately trashing any comment that has a specific phrase "Elephant Juice" in it. You can do this by going to Settings -> Discussion → Disallowed Comment Keys. Or you can add something to your theme's functions.php file. Here's the code snippet: add_action( 'comment_post', '…
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There's a brilliant post by WordPress about how they've optimised some of the backend code to make it more efficient. So here's a suggestion for something else which can be optimised. If you want to schedule a blog post to be published later, you have to use this WordPress control: I find it mildly annoying. I don't get why part of it is a dropdown. And the number fields don't pop up my…
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While farting around online, I stumbled across this 2008 Time Capsule from Stephen Fry. In it, he discusses the state of mobile phones - diving into the problems with BlackBerry's and Apple's latest offerings. BlackBerry had released the Storm and Apple's 2nd iPhone was now 3G capable. It's quite the glimpse into what we thought the future would be like. Halfway through, he says: When the…
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Way back in 2011, I contributed to an article on The Next Web called "What will the Web be like in 20 years?". Foolishly, I missed the 10 year anniversary, but let's see how we're doing against those predictions a little over halfway through. My prediction for the Web? The same speed. Faster pipes & processors – more bloated markup & JS. Well... fuck! Bang on the money there. The web is f…
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I've just finished watching Hulu's WeWork documentary. It is genuinely one of the funniest movies I've seen this year. Seriously, how can you watch that and not crack up? If I were the head of an investment fund, I think I probably would have fallen for Theranos. Sure, Elizabeth Holmes was a bit of a kooky Steve Jobs tribute act - but the science sounded plausible. Perhaps with due…
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August is meant to be full of gloriously hot days. An endless parade of sunshine and drinks in the park. This year it seemed mostly grey, miserable, and prone to pissing it down at a moment's notice. We all know that solar panels' efficiency wilts in the heat, but do they get a tan work standing in the English rain? At the beginning of August we installed a 4.8kWh solar battery to supplement…
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