This makes me happy. These are some very funny humans.

https://twitter.com/joebereta/status/950428401411661824



Natalya Natalya on twitter.com:
Now with CSS grid and not a single rectangle in sight! http://www.artist-developer.com/

Decided to go easy for #newwwyear a… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/946031781043634176

This is gorgeous. Great work!


I completed my #newwwyear resolution for gRegorLove.com! I now have a wider layout for photo posts. Here is the first example.

I still need to tweak a few things, like the navigation links at the top, but I am really happy with this. I will continue cross-posting photos to Instagram and Twitter, but now I feel like I have a better photo display on my site where I originally publish them.


Throwback to the Tulip Festival at Roozengaarde in Skagit County, Washington. Taken 2017-04-15.


@mikemchargue I’m trying to find The Liturgists Slack channel; doesn’t seem to be a search in the Patreon community page. Help?



Currently reading: A Prayer for Owen Meany


I want to read 30 books in 2018.


Want to read: Autonomous


What a scumbag.

“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed. In pursuing a friend’s wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought. Then he’d have his secretary ask the friend into his office; once the friend arrived, Trump would engage in what was, for him, more or less constant sexual banter. Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o’clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise . . . And all the while, Trump would have his friend’s wife on the speakerphone, listening in.”

Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

/via Katy Tur


Fred Fred "Fish Nun" Sprinkle on twitter.com:
Everyone's seen Attack the Block, right?

Loved it.



Hah, in Travelers they reference being in Bellingham!

Season 2 has been great so far. Recommended if you enjoy time travel. @TRVLRSseries


@mikemchargue @michaelgungor I’m quite late on the Halloween Liturgists episode. I commented on Patreon but thought it might get lost:

Wondered if you have seen the ongoing paranormal stuff @moby_dickhead has been sharing? Check his pinned Storify and subsequent threads.


The Orville would be better with Bruce:

https://twitter.com/GroovyBruce/status/947599931719630848


Tom Sparks Tom Sparks on tomasparks.github.io:
Rhythmbox scrobbling notes system

Do you mean to have the key and secret at the top of these code samples? :]


gRegor Morrill gRegor Morrill on gregorlove.com:
One of the known issues with webmentions in WordPress is that they are often flagged as spam by default. There is a workaround snippet of code on the wiki to automatically approve them. That got me thinking about the core feature of approving comments only from previously-approved commenters. It seemed there should be a way to leverage that core feature for webmentions as well.

I found the WordPress code that pre-approves those type of comments. The main issue is that it requires both the comment author name and email. I wrote a filter function that instead checks the name and webmention source URL against previously-approved webmentions.

Here is the code: https://gist.github.com/gRegorLove/8215cb9c9584b364aaf4ef2999416f56

I put it in the theme’s functions.php file and it worked!

Further improvements would be to:

Add a conditional check for the WordPress option comment_whitelist so it only does this when that option is enabled
Use the wp_commentmeta table, webmention_source_url instead of the comment_author_url
Only use the source URL, not author name and source URL

I’ve updated this code snippet so it abides by your Discussion settings for the checkbox “Comment author must have a previously approved comment.”

I’ve also updated it to use the webmention_source_url which is part of the comment meta data passed into the filter.

If you have that box checked and approve a webmention from a post on example.com, subsequent webmentions from example.com will be automatically approved. If that box is not checked, this automatic approval code won’t run.

This does override the other spam checks like maximum number of links and comment blacklist keywords. Generally, I think this is acceptable since the approval of a webmention from a source domain is a stronger signal than the approval of a name and email that was entered in a comment form.


grace perry grace perry on twitter.com:
YOUR PORN STAR NAME: take your first name and replace it with “Paul,” then take your last name and replace it with “Hollywood”

That's a nice bake.