I recently drove a Golf GTE for a day, instead of the Golf 7 i usually use for my commute. This made me think about the missed opportunities of todays…
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Adding a grid view to the WordPress admin users section
Recently the WP-admin has gotten more attention from core developers. The Media section recently got a grid design, and the plugins area also got a visual improvement. A thought that…
Read moreSeperate Varnish caching for HTTP and HTTPS
A high traffic site I host for a client needed to be available on both HTTP and HTTPS. This particular site, though, needed different caches depending on what scheme was…
Read moreReset root MySQL password on Ubuntu
This is a question I have heard (too) many time. How does one reset the root MySQL password on Ubuntu. In order to make this as simple as possible I…
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Google Webfonts and performance
tl;dr… Using Google Webfonts will hurt your score pretty bad, however, PageSpeed forgives you if you do it “right”. Recently I started making some changes to my WordPress theme again,…
Read moreDynamically embedding Gists
I updated my site to utilize html5 history and ajax recently. One of the challenges I faced was how to handle Gist embeds. Since they only consist of a single…
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