Scott Yang's Playground

code.sixapart.com — home of 6A’s open source projects, from the maker of Movable Type and TypeKey. Funny that except for code snippets of Movable Type plugins, most other open source projects listed there are probably considered as part of acquition of LiveJournal.

A new version of Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin has been released today. 0.6.0 adds one new function and fixes one annoying issue. Permalink Redirect can now redirect visitors to your RSS/Atom feed to FeedBurner. It is useful for those who wish to track their feed statistics on FeedBurner, and continoue to advertise their old feed [...]

Have you noticed that Scott Yang’s Playground has been quite a bit faster over the last two days? It loads faster, renders faster, and Scott’s meaningless muse appears in front of you faster! How did I do it? No. I did not have a secret version of WordPress that can render the same page 5 [...]

beta.netscape.com — new social bookmarker website with tagging, voting, commenting and lots of ads. It actually looks a bit like Digg (which also has been digged), but less geared towards tech community. Again, it is just way too cluttered to be considered useful. Well, Netscape is no longer the same Netscape I used to know [...]

Via /., The Register reports 64% of all spams are spreaded by zombies and compromised PCs controlled by Taiwanese, and only 3 percent from mainland China. It is sampled by a honey pot network to intercept commanding messages to those zombie PCs. It probably means (1) more Taiwanese are hacking for profit (2) Taiwanese hackers [...]

This is Sydney’s weather forecast on Sydney Morning Herald for the next few days. Looks very gloomy to me. And we already had almost-non-stop raining for the past week! It was windy, rainy and chilly, and Sydney’s winter has just started. And it wasn’t the bad weather that troubles me. Flu and cold often follows [...]

Dries Buytaert compared different web server and PHP set up for a Drupal powered site. It turns out Apache2 + mod_php4 + APC cache is actually the fastest configuration. However, pre-fork with APC cache on each apache process can use quite a lot of memory as well, if the site has been hit hard. Personally [...]

Got an invitation to Google Spreadsheet this morning, so I quickly logged in, played around, and do up a quick spreadsheet. Here’s a screenshot: Aussie personal tax calculator in Google Spreadsheet Yeah it is a very simple spreadsheet that calculates how much you need to pay the government from your annual taxable income. It has [...]

Via /., Lenovo desktops and notebooks are now Windows-only. What?! Linux loves to run on IBM ThinkPads because the Big Blue is actively advocating it, and I know a few sysadmin-type geeks swear by their ThinkPads. At least they can now buy Macbooks and run a decent x86 unix system.

Jeremy Zawodny revived the discussion about the actual usefulness of rel=”nofollow” mechanism in hyperlinking. In short, it does not prevent comment spams. Moreover, it hinders visitors from commenting as there lacks “reward”. Jeremy concluded, which I completely agree. Look. Linking is part of what makes the web work. If you’re actually concerned about every link [...]