It’s Time to Banish the Attitude of Entitlement

by Tom Ewer April 9^th, 2012 7 Responses

I’m no developer. The closest thing I’ve got to plugin development is designing a laughably simply little tool that allows you to embed links to pre-populated tweets within your blog posts (if you want to see how simple it really is, click here).

So I know very little about the hardships of being a plugin developer. But I know enough to have a rudimentary understanding of how difficult it is to produce even the simplest of plugins. And I also happen to know quite a few developers.
The State of Play

Opinion

Are You Keeping Up With The Alternatives To WordPress?

by Thord Daniel Hedengren April 5^th, 2012 3 Responses

Amidst the good and the bad things about WordPress, it is easy to forget about the fact that there are other things in the world. I know, chocking right? What else could there be but WordPress?

Besides sex, booze and not getting up before noon, that is.

Rock n’ roll lifestyle aside, it is easy to forget about the alternatives to WordPress. The platform’s competition if you will, although that is a boring way to look at it, I must say.

Opinion

7 Bad Things About WordPress

by Thord Daniel Hedengren March 29^th, 2012 17 Responses

Last week I did something awful, namely a list post. Luckily it wasn’t one of those linkbaity things that way too many blogs publish to get some extra eyeballs, but still. It was a list and therefore I loathe myself right now.

And I will continue to do so, because this week we’ll, or more accurately I will, talk about what’s bad with WordPress. Last week was apparantly TDH is being nice week so those of you who thought I was replaced by a doppelgänger at the WPMU.org office (is there one?) can rest easy. Your favorite asshole is back.

Opinion, Plugins

A Year Later – Your Opinion on Jetpack

by Tom Ewer March 27^th, 2012 8 Responses

Has it been that long already? Yep – around one year ago, the infamous Jetpack plugin package was launched by Automattic. At the time, it attracted its fair share of adulation and controversy. Our very own James Farmer was revealing in his own opinion of what it meant for WordPress users and developers.

Opinion

7 Good Things About WordPress

by Thord Daniel Hedengren March 22^nd, 2012 Leave a comment

Sometimes I come across as a negative bastard, always bitching about what’s wrong with the world today, or WordPress at least.

And you know what, that’s true, I do point out a lot of messed up things in our ecosystem. I do it because I care, and because I’m paid to raise as much hell as possible. Which isn’t exactly true, but wouldn’t it be grand if it was? I’d expose you all as open source hippies, for smoking too much pot, and for being whiny little bitches.

Good times.

Opinion

I’m Going To Miss Posterous

by Thord Daniel Hedengren March 15^th, 2012 Leave a comment

A few days ago Twitter acquired Posterous in a move that surely was and is all about securing awesome developer talent. After all, what would Twitter want with Posterous, unless they are aiming for Tumblr in some weird distorted way? I’m not seeing that, I’m not seeing that at all.

Opinion

Is It Time For A New WordPress Admin Interface?

by Thord Daniel Hedengren March 8^th, 2012 7 Responses

Perhaps you already knew this, but Tumblr, the hosted blogging platforms come social network that “inspired” the post formats for WordPress, have recently seen a number of updates to its interface. Someone told me Tumblr only employs one (1) designer to fiddle with these things, which I won’t bother to fact check but just leave there for you to stare incredoulysly at, given how design-focused Tumblr is and all.

Opinion

Would You Dare To Hand Over Your Blog For A Week?

by Thord Daniel Hedengren March 1^st, 2012 Leave a comment

There really is just one good thing about being sick, and that is that it gives you time to read and think. That’s basically what I’ve been doing the last couple of days, finally coming down with whatever it is I have, the doctors are not quite sure so they just gave me a truckload of pills to kill it off. And as I’m writing this I’d like to say that it seems to be working, so I guess that’s good.

Opinion

This Would Make Me Blog More

by Thord Daniel Hedengren February 23^rd, 2012 1 Response

You know what would make me blog more? Not here perhaps (they can’t afford me) but overall?

I’d like to be able to blog on the go.

“Hang on there chum, you can!”

Yes, there are apps, official ones as well as third party options. Some are great, others are downright awful. I use a few, the official one for iPhone and iPad, combined with Blogsy which had a weird thing going on with the rendered HTML code but got its shit together somewhere down the line, sort of.

Opinion

Pagination Is Evil And You Shouldn’t Do It

by Thord Daniel Hedengren February 16^th, 2012 8 Responses

So I was browsing the web looking for something that would piss me off enough to write a snarky column that would make you, dear reader, equally pissed off. At me, most likely, as that is usually how it goes. Or rather, how it used to go, the last few columns have been so cute and cozy that I feel a bit nauseous. I know my fellow overlords (note: not actually my fellows) breathe a bit easier when I’m not pissing off the WordPress community, or at least I like to think that’s why I haven’t been kicked out just yet, but still, this is getting a bit boring right?