Arambol Beach in Goa, India (© Ben Pipe/Alamy)

Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (© tampatra/Getty Images)

WordPress has an affinity for back–doored radioactivity. If I can get my way (which is hard), a WordPress install has only 1 theme and 0 plugins.

wordpress/
|-- public
`-- wp-config.php

/* Disable installing plugins and themes */
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);

Wildlife crossing in Wierden, Netherlands (© Frans Lemmens/Alamy)

On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub.

Blue linckia sea stars off New Ireland in Papua New Guinea (© Jurgen Freund/Minden Pictures)

How to Build an E-commerce Site with a Perfect Lighthouse Score

There’s an old article from the developer of NetNewsWire (RSS reader) that questions the idea of the unread count. You can’t read all the unread — so why entertain a time consuming mythos around that number?

It applies everywhere — What narratives might people create around the programming language % numbers on GitHub? Do they waste time thinking/fretting about their mythos? Fun to think about.

Regional Park of Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli, Italy (© Stefano Valeri/Alamy)

nikitonsky: There’re no technical reasons for limitations like these to exist. Next time you catch yourself thinking about allowing or not allowing certain symbols somewhere: just don’t. Allow everything. Users will thank you for that.