I've recently stumbled upon SingleFunction, a site showcasing sites with one function and one purpose. The site shows a gallery of refreshing web services: most of the time, their designs are clean and uncluttered, their functions are simple, either fun and pointless or with a real use. As a bonus, SingleFunction is also powered by an interesting WordPress theme. Definitely…
One of Twitter's cool features is that you can really customize your profile, in particular with any background you want. Doing this, you are soon facing a design constraint: Twitter is a fixed width centered column, and your background image will be aligned from the top left corner. So despite all your artistic efforts, your background might just look dull…
Best practices when it comes to writing plugins is a frequently asked question on the wp-hackers mailing list. Good news: Mark Jaquith, one of the WordPress core developers, has an ebook planned: Too many WordPress plugins have security issues. Solution: I'm writing a short e-book on how to write secure WordPress plugins. I'll buy.
Sumo Paint. Holy beep, it's almost an online Photoshop clone!
Coders using WordPress, this post is for you. Here are a few plugins that should make your WordPress hacking life faster, happier, and more productive. What a promise, heh? :) Plugin: User Switching John Blackbourn freshly released this handy plugin with which you can instantly swap between user accounts, without having to log out then log back in as another…
Most probably fake since I own the entire collection of C&H and I've never seen this one. But still. Those damn kids on the intarwebs. They don't respect nothing!
I bet a number of you will recognize the following logo: on the left side of the picture is the cute bird on his branch as used by Twitter (you see it on their home page when you are logged off, or on the Support page). What about the right side?
LastFM Love Tweet: tweets every track you "love" on last.fm so you can share it with with your followers. Neat!
Lolcats, All Your Base, Miss Teen South Carolina, Diet Coke + Mentos… If this kind of internet phenomena bores you, don't click the "Read more" link. But of course, if you want to remember them all (and then view some) in a neat timeline, go ahead!
Now that's a fun, yet a bit extreme, use for Twitter. Anti Privacy is a Greasemonkey extension (ie javascript) bit that, simply put, tweets every URL you visit, as seen for instance here. Consider this the absolute opposite of privacy. First thoughts: LOL, with a snatch of OMG, and obviously a morsel of WTF. Now, I actually like the concept.…