Towards unified feed icons
Seems like the RSS/Atom syndication world is finally uniting around a common feed icon, the Mozilla one.
This should help to make the “World Live Web” less confusing to users. Some One Click Subscription magic will still be needed, but things are at least moving to a better direction.
I like the way Safari handles the default feed reader selection, too.
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Give the correct status code when you're down
Jaiku, the microblogging service I use, has been frustratingly often down in the last couple of days, apparently kicking off another mass migration towards Twitter and Brightkite. And they report it only in human-readable way, not in fashion a browser, a proxy or a search engine would understand it. While being down, Jaiku still responds with HTTP 200 OK: HTTP...
Why WordPress needs to get Decoupled
Couple of days ago there was an interesting post on the Dire State of WordPress, talking about the issues developers have when working with this hugely popular content management system: