Seriously this shit is getting old, but I just keep going back to it. Reddit is like my abusive boyfriend that I break up with and get back together with every month. I think the problem is with my tendencies though.
When I’m bored on the internet: Reddit
When I’m sitting on the john: Reddit
When I get frustrated at work: Reddit
Just before bed: Reddit
If I’m trying to waste time: Reddit
It’s just insta-reddit. Sometimes I’ll turn on the TV, see nothing on and think, “reddit”. but then I realize that Reddit isn’t on TV. So I get on my phone.
It’s serious badness. I have the same problems with it that I did last time. It just won’t go away. I’ve tried local hosting reddit.com in my /etc/hosts files, but I just get bored and unblock it.
I’ll have to come up with something better. Something to replace Reddit. I’ve been reading Hacker News, but the content is a little slow moving. The comment discussions is really where Hacker News shines. In recent weeks it has gone down hill though. Isn’t there anywhere on the internet that doesn’t suck?
Software development is piquing my interest. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever been this interested in software development. I recently started working on a project for a prospective employer to show off my skills as a javascript developer. Well, not really my skills in javascript but I was showing them how fast I could learn, and code in, the language. I wrote a javascript chat client that retains messages for sixty seconds. That marathon of coding over the last few days has been one of the funnest, but most challenging computing experiences I’ve had. It was more difficult and more rewarding than setting up systems (something I practiced when I thought that systems administration was my bag).
Anyway, I just had to say, I’ve caught the programming bug. The bug that makes you want to code all the time. The one that lets you see your ideas come to life on the screen. Hopefully I’ll be making something awesome soon. I really think I’m going to redesign my blog as well. I’m not 100% positive that I’ll be sticking with WordPress either. Maybe it’ll be static HTML, or maybe it’ll be Node. Anyway, it’ll be cool.
Plugins, specifically WordPress plugins are the bane of my existence.
My main responsibility at work is troubleshooting people’s websites. I troubleshoot everything from home-built sites, drupal, joomla, django, rails, but most of all: wordpress.
99.999% of the problems I see with WordPress are caused by the plugins. The other .001 percent of them are theme issues. Rarely, if ever, do I see a problems with the WordPress core.
Seriously, the best advice I can provide to WordPress users is to prune your plugins regularly. Delete the ones you aren’t using, and take serious care when deciding whether to implement a new one or not. These things aren’t whimsical additions to your website, they are serious performance killers. Unless you enjoy your blog being slow, hacked, and/or down, take your plugins seriously.
I currently have two plugins active. They are Akismet and wp-super-cache. I think pretty much everyone should use wp-super-cache if you care about scalability and speed, and Akismet blocks about 150 spammy comments per month on my blog. Both are doing a lot of work for me.
In short: Want your blog to be slow? Use more than 10 plugins. Want your blog to get hacked? Use plugins that modify WordPress’s core.
If you disable right click on your website, I hate you. Especially if I’m troubleshooting problems on your site. It’s completely useless. I’m already downloading all of the images and content from your site just by loading it. Do you think it’s really necessary to disable right click so I can’t copy and paste something? NO, it isn’t.
Here is why I like right click: I can select a single element in chrome, right click on it and click inspect. I can’t do this easily any other way because I would have to load the inspector and navigate through it until I find the part that’s broken. Yes, I’m sure I could disable javascript and reload your page, but I have a thousand other pages open that I don’t want to have to reload.
Seriously, don’t disable right click. If you do, I instantly don’t want to help you.