Things I almost invented but didn’t

  • Electron (“why can’t I just write the UI in HTML and CSS? why do I have to use ridiculous things like GridLayoutBag?”)
  • Rock Band (“I could create a website that’s a game that teaches people how to play guitar”)
  • Netflix recommendation systems (“people can make a list of their favourite movies, and then they’ll get recommendations from other people who liked the same movies”)

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Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a MistakeHTTP/2 is a great leap forward for HTTP, but turning it on HTTP/2 was a mistake. Learn how to solve this problem without having to increase computing.

I really want to enable HTTP/2, because the performance gains are supposed to be crazy good, but I’ve been afraid to, because I’m already having CPU issues, and I suspected HTTP/2 might make it worse. Looks like I was right, and I need to learn more devops before I can do this. 😞

The great mysteries of my life

  • what ever happened to the film with the pictures from the Christina Aguilera concert
  • where was “Monkee See, Monkee Die” filmed
  • how did that Wayne’s World board game VHS play different clips every time we started it

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wp_kses is such a terrible function name. I haven’t done WordPress programming in a long time, so I had a hard time trying to remember what the damn thing was called.

KSES is a recursive acronym which stands for “KSES Strips Evil Scripts”.

WordPress

It’s hard enough to get people to care about security in the first place; giving your function a nonsensical name doesn’t help.