Holy cow, I’ve gone and made a mime-type wordpress plugin

I’ve been a developer for 8+ years now and have used wordpress (WP) on and off for at least 5 years, but I’ve never really got my hands dirty. Until now. I’ve been prepping my journo sister’s website for launch and came up with a thorny issue: How do I get a nice mime-type icon […]

Will history look back on developers as 21st Century coalminers?

I’m in the backroom right now, handcoding some HTML for my wife’s website. The kids are going to sleep in their room down the hall. I suddenly get the feeling that the future may not look on developers as shining guardians of morality and common sense, whose hard work and openness shone a beacon for […]