Those of you who I had given my address to as “333” please change that to “355.” Sorry for the confusion! I just got a heap of Christmas cards today that had gone to the wrong address.
Comment Spam is a thing of the past
Comment Spam is a thing of the past. That method I’ve found to be 100% effective in stopping bot-based spam, but you still need some sort of content moderation for manually-entered spam. A version of Stopgap Extreme called WP Hashcash is in the new plugin repository and undergoing shared development. The repository has over 55 plugins already and it hasn’t even been officially announced. 🙂 (And this doesn’t count.)
Jonas’ 2005 Predictions
Check out Jonas’ predictions for 2005 and his hilarious follow-up. Thanks to Jonas for reminding me it’s just 15 days until my birthday.
Ruby on Rails
The new Ruby on Rails site looks great, and I’ve been impressed with the framework a lot lately. You can tell they have good taste because they’re using WordPress for their blog. Rails is from the guy who brought you Basecamp.
Javascript Markdown
A Javascript implementation of Markdown, useful for live previews. It doesn’t do all of Markdown, but that’s okay because a lot of it isn’t needed/used anyway. Might be useful to define a “Markdown-lite” subset of the syntax to target for. It would also be great for there to be two-way tools for going to and from HTML.
Domain Captcha
When renewing a domain at GoDaddy I just had to fill out a captcha to complete the transaction.
Photo Matt in Snow
So apparently the first year I’m not home for the holidays Houston decides to have a white Christmas, snowing in places that have only seen snow maybe once before in my lifetime. As an early present, however, my friend Jess sent me this awesome picture. Update: One from Sarah too! (And another)
Dance of the Fairy
A little Christmas music for all of you from the big band arrangement of the Nutcracker Suite. (Sorry I didn’t have the Duke Ellington version handy.)
WordPress Lists
There’s a new WordPress list manager and plugin that looks pretty swank and nicely integrates into the WordPress admin pages.
Matt Croydon
Python guy Matt Croydon is back and blogging with WordPress. He must have heard of our next version, WordPresssssssss, which is going to be in Python.
GPL 3.0
The GPL is getting a facelift, sounds neat.
On Livejournal
Apparently I’m available on LiveJournal now. Update: I didn’t do this, so I don’t know exactly how it’s done. I believe it’s just polling my RSS feed and making that a LJ “friend”. I wonder who set it up?
Grass Picture
By popular demand, the grass picture is now available full-size. I’m curious, what are your favorite pictures? Maybe I could put together a wallpaper pack or something.
Newest Addiction
My newest addiction is chocolate covered cashews. YUM!
Torvalds Interview
Upgrade MT
The new version of Movable Type addresses the issue that was supposedly causing incredibly high loads and causing hosts to disable MT. Congrats to the team for addressing this so quickly.
Multiple Languages
By the way, WordPress is now available in at least 30 languages.
German WordPress
Awwwwww, that totally made my day. Check out the rest of the awesome WordPress.de site.
Fixing Search Engines
Joeseph Scott says Fixing Search Engines Won’t Stop Comment Spam.
WordPress Heat Map
Matt Kingston does a weighted list or heat map plugin for categories, nice! See it in action on his archives. He should drop that in the new repository (which I would say in his comments but they’re broken at the moment).