Scott Hanselman’s post on adding hotkeys to web applications is good food-for-thought if you have any power users, or just want a better experience when using the applications you develop.
Zach Tollman benchmarked wp_kses() and found that the conventional wisdom about its performance isn’t always true.
TED Radio Hour has a great episode about the pre-technology roots of the ideas behind today’s Open Source movement, and how they’re being applied beyond the digital realm, to things like architecture, deep-sea rovers, and even democracy itself.
I just pushed a new plugin to the WordPress.org repository that lets you quickly navigate around wp-admin using just the keyboard, similar to Dash/HUD in Ubuntu or Spotlight in OS X:
Update: Version 0.2 is out now, and it’ll also include your posts, pages, and other content types in the results.
Nacin gave a great talk at php[world] dispelling a lot of the myths about WordPress that still exist in the developer community.
Why Websites get Hacked is a good high-level article to sends to clients or friends who don’t understand why someone would want to attack their site — and therefore doesn’t see the need to protect it — or are curious about how it happens.
Scott Jehl — one of the creators of Picturefill — wrote a thoughtful piece on the tradeoffs of polyfilling for responsive images.
Today is the Internet Slowdown, to show support for Net Neutrality.
If you want to participate, you can install the Cat Signal plugin on your WordPress.org site, or enable the setting for your WordPress.com blog.