phil ringnalda

Maybe the solution to getting troll comments and low-quality TrackBacks out of sight without completely silencing them is just to adopt Slashdot’s moderation scheme.

Rather than just offering a new visitor your previous post (about your cats) and your next post (about gym class), why not offer your most popular posts?

An unobtrusive DHTML script to convert archive links in the new Blogger from 04/01/2003 – 04/30/2003 to April 2003 without much fuss or effort

Just some nits to pick with the first draft of TrackBack in the UserLand environment.

Oh, yeah, I’ve got 404 to search, and don’t have TrackBack’s in my comments feeds

Autodiscovery will be the death of TrackBack. Without autodiscovery, a TrackBack ping says “if you liked that, read this,” but with autodiscovery, a ping says “I linked to that” and far too often, it’s nothing but a link.

Take a bunch of really smart users, get them close to a developer, and you’ll get a good product.

The new version of Blogger offers new possibilities for archive scripts. All I have to do is decide on something.

Show people who leave you comments enough respect to either tell them what will happen with their comment, or give them an accurate preview of what it will look like when they submit it.

Michel disappears for months, someone finally gets tired of waiting and forks b2, Michel returns.