Tim Ferriss writes Pimping Firefox: The Basics (Matt Mullenweg, Garrett Camp, and More). Includes my 5 favorite extensions.
Jiro Ono and René Redzepi
An interesting and thoughtful conversation over a cup of tea between two food masters of our time, Jiro Ono and René Redzepi, from the MAD site. (WordPress-powered!)
Dale Harvey on working remotely, some great tips for getting started and how to rock it. As always, Automattic is hiring great people regardless of location.
TextDrive
Dean offers hosting, and pledges 10% of the fee to anyone who uses WordPress on it. Available for a limited time only. Those specs sound killer. You can’t deny that man’s flair.
MT Licensing
Six Apart announces more changes to Movable Type license. That sounds like a good model for WordPress.
Feedster Redesign
It seems like Feedster has redesigned and looks a lot better. Some silly validation errors, but I’m sure they’ll get to that soon enough.
5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS
I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don’t think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
— Anne Lamott
From her great book Bird by Bird.
Job Interview
Seth Godin: The end of the job interview. Hear hear.
Don’t Mess With Jay
Jay Allen, From Troll to Doppelganger. For what it’s worth, I ran the IP on the forums and no posts have been made to the WP support forums from that IP.
To Munich for DLD
I’m heading to Munich, Germany for the DLD conference where I’m going to be on a panel. If you’re there say howdy and I’ll show you my Apple Tablet. (Just kidding. :))
Jay-Z
As I noted on Twitter, Jay-Z now has a WordPress-powered blog. It’s bare right now, but hopefully they really start to stretch WP soon. By the by, Jay, let’s grab a bite and talk tech and design. 😉 Hat tip: Michael Koenig.
Random Redirect Plugin
I just updated the Random Redirect plugin, with two extra parameters.
Baby Name Chart
6 of the 10 Republican presidential candidates are using WordPress, the other 4 are on Drupal, which means all 10 are on an Open Source CMS.
EOS Digital Rebel XT
Sometimes it seems like the longest days are those in between an Apple announcement and when the products are actually available. I’m looking forward to iOS 9, WatchOS 2, 6s+, Apple TV…
Upgrade Music
Bangkok Boat Tour
A boat tour of several temples in Bangkok, followed by a dinner with traditional Thai dancing.
LDAP Authentication
A hack for a LDAP enabled WordPress 1.5. More and more large organizations with external authentication are using WordPress internally.