Author: Ryan Neudorf
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Today I Block Ads
Marco Arment just published a post on The ethics of modern web ad-blocking. His opening position is pretty similar to my own, I’ve been a long time advocate of not blocking ads. In the past, I have also put food on the table via ad revenue. Until today, I have been morally opposed to blocking ads has until…
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Using Jetpack’s Photon CDN to host images in custom WordPress themes
Photon is a great free image CDN that you can use with any self-hosted WordPress install via Automattic’s Jetpack suite of plugins. Photon uses wordpress.com’s infrastructure to host your site’s images on one of the fastest CDN globally. I highly recommend enabling it on every WordPress install. If your site is on cheap shared hosting, it…
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Trump
(This is not a political post. I don’t really do politics.) The vast majority of people I follow on the social medias are having a very predictable knee-jerk reaction against Donald Trumps presidential campaign. My knee-jerk reaction to predictable, like-button-induced, knee-jerk reactions is to immediately take a contrarian view. If I actually did politics, I’d continue this…