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One of the recent posts has been showing up as new over and over again on feed readers. I narrowed the problem down to the email address obfuscation in Markdown & Extra. I just upgraded to a more recent version (two new versions had come out since the beginning of December), and one of the changes is that the obfuscation algorithm is now deterministic instead of random. So you should see that article pop up once more as new, if you are reading through the feed, and then never again.
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I just completed testing my plugins with WordPress 2.1-alpha3 and they all work correctly. This should mean that it is safe to continue using them with WordPress 2.1, once it is released.

Multibyte Mail for WordPress

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The Multibyte Mail plugin replaces the wp_mail() function with one that tries to encode the usual email message headers that might contain 8-bit data. It should work well with the core WordPress code as well as any plugins, unless the plugin is sending out some unusual headers.

If you receive bounces for comments on articles with 8-bit (or multibyte) characters in their title (or in the name of the comment author), this plugin should prove helpful. (more…)

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I’ve had a number of ideas on articles for this blog, but a) I didn’t write them down and b) the ideas didn’t choose to occur at times when I’d be idling by a keyboard… I’ve started a new section in my task management software to try and keep such ideas alive for the future.
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SourceForge has improved their CVS infrastructure. Instead of checking out all of pkgsrc-wip from scratch, you could just fix the already checked out tree. (more…)

IPv6 is here

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I’ve had IPv6 connectivity for over 5 years (first from IIJ, now from SixXS). However, it wasn’t until last night that I finally got my website on IPv6, when some final wrinkles in the web server configuration were ironed out. (more…)

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I implemented my dream about Swish-e-based search some time ago, but today I finally figured out how to make the results page look like the rest of the site. (more…)

Switching to Gregarius

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I’ve switched to reading feeds with Gregarius because I grew tired of tweaking my old reader, unfortunately code that apparently is no longer developed. Gregarius has more bells and whistles than I’ve had time to look into, and I had to change my reading habits a bit, but not too drastically. Installation was a breeze and I could move all my feeds with a couple of clicks using an OPML file. Gregarius is also themable and pluggable, which is always a guarantee for hours of fun adjusting the behaviour to your liking. (more…)

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Updated Swish-e to version 2.4.3 in pkgsrc as www/swish-e. Notable changes: (more…)
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I got tired of the broken search function from WordPress, so I implemented a searchbox using Google site search. The upside is that the search can now find content outside the blog. Eventually it would be cool to use Swish-e.