Archive for October 21, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Stop WordPress Mangling Your Code

I had been modifying WordPress’s default-filters.php file to turn off the wptexturize and wpautop filters, but Lynne Pope says that you can instead override this at the theme level in functions.php. This makes it easier to update WordPress, as I no longer have to merge in my changes.

MacBook Polycarbonate Unibody Teardown

iFixit:

The hard drive isn’t as easy to replace as it used to be, but it can be done. The hard drive is still considered “user replaceable” by Apple. It’s strange that the hard drive is “user replaceable,” but the battery is not.

Just a few more screws, basically.

1,000 Issues of TidBITS

Adam Engst:

This marks our 1,000th issue of TidBITS, and we can barely believe that we’ve arrived at this point, more than 19 years after Tonya and I took our first tentative publishing steps in April 1990. But here we are, going strong and writing and publishing more than ever before.

Congratulations, and keep up the good work!