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Blog - Stack Exchange: Winter Bash 2014

Jon Ericson on December 14, 2014

There is no better antidote, at least for the worst hours and eclipses of the soul, than to conjure up … serious frivolity.—Friedrich Nietzsche

No, it’s not a new flavor of Unix shell. Rather, Winter Bash is an ancient tradition of Stack Exchange. (2011 is ancient according to Internet time.) Here’s how it works:

Starting right now, when you complete one of 30-odd challenges while logged on a participating site, you will be awarded the associated hat. To notify you, an icon will light up on the top bar. In addition, admire your hat collection on the Winter Bash 2014 site …

Sisir

05:50

Wow! empty room!

Mark Kaplun

06:10

not empty any more :)

Sisir

06:35

If anyone used WP JSON REST API to create endpoints that shows data from custom tables. Please give a shout. I am working on it right now. If you can share some code I can just copy and paste instead ;)

Mark Kaplun

06:48

github.com/WP-API/WP-API/issues/724 the json api going to be a great way to create a DDOS on yourself for people that don't really understand the concept of what is API

hopefully someone will be smart enough to keep it as a plugin and out of core

Sisir

My api isn't public. only for logged in users..

Mark Kaplun

@sisir, obviously I was talking about the guy that opened that issue. And in reality there is no such thing as private client server API

But I meant how easy it will be to right a small JS widget that use the magic of jason and will bring your site down once you have more then one person viewing the site at one time

right=write

Sisir

07:12

@MarkKaplun how so? Considering only read operations is public and all write/delete/edit operations are properly protected via authentication or api keys. It will be just like a public facing website isn't it? only difference is that data is presented using json and not html

But I agree with the fact that moving it to core might create security issues if not handled right. Core team must consider conventions over configurations

Mark Kaplun

The API itself is public, it might not return any data when used if you do not have the proper authentication, but there is nothing that prevents anyone from trying to use it on someone elses server

But if I get it right the whole point of it is to make it easier to make the info public to all

otherwise I don't get why it is needed when you already have XML-RPC and can write your own AJAX

wp-api.org/#posts_retrieve-posts do not require authentication. content scrappers will be delighted

Sisir

07:35

well formatted content :) golden age for scrappers..

Mark Kaplun

yes, which it was implemented when I was running some small content agregation site :)

which=wich, need to work on brain to fingers coordination :)

grrt :)

Sisir

just it upper arrow :)

Mark Kaplun

everyday I learn something new :) hope I will remember it tomorrow :)

Rarst

09:24

@MarkKaplun there is already XML-RPC, Ajax endpoints, form endpoints, not to mention like serving HTML... REST endpoint makes no difference whatsoever

Mark Kaplun

09:42

@rarst, but all those are complex and we need to make it easier for people to shot themselves

Rarst

who said REST thing will be easy? bulk of people create endpoints in plugins because they can't get as far as figuring out what admin-ajax.php is

Mark Kaplun

And all of theme except for HTML require authentication and/or explicit coding

the point is that they create endpoint in plugins which you have to manually install, and are not part of core. I have no real problem with JSON as a plugin

Rarst

WordPress doesn't care about your problems :)

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Mark Kaplun

10:34

Tell me about it :)

Rarst

14:40

Allow to provide full name for file templates https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-25904 (pet peeve, please vote if you use file templates in storm a lot :)

Tweeted by Rarst on December 15, 2014 at 2:39 PM

Sisir

haven't started using them..

Sisir

15:48

got my first hat :)

Sven

16:22

One hat per day? ;)

Sisir

17:31

@userabuser what version of ember-data.js you use? Bower pulled up v0.14 for me which says last commit was at 2013-08-31

Tom J Nowell

18:07

@Rarst did you have any involvement with the latest OAuth 2 update to yoasts Google analytics?

Rarst

no, I did graphs

or rather redid

Tom J Nowell

the very latest minor update completely overhauled their google api code, and they now load the google libraries on every page load, wether it's needed or not, crippling another plugin of mine in the process

Rarst

report on github?

Tom J Nowell

in the end I replaced it with a plugin named "FU Google libs"

I opened an issue

jnthnclrk

Hi, anyone know of a plugin to save marketing query string params as Javascript cookies for heavily cached pages before I start writing it?

Tom J Nowell

18:11

marketing query strings? what are those?

jnthnclrk

You know. ?utm_source=adwordss

adwords

Tom J Nowell

I don't, but it sounds like something that would require almost entirely javascript for the solution

jnthnclrk

Yup

Nice thing about doing it as a WordPress plugin is having some admin settings to allow people to control which params are saved, for how long, and whether they can be overwritten.

kaiser

@TomJNowell just unregister theirs everywhere. then blame Yoast to brake things, which you gladly fixed for your users :)

Rarst

professional much?

Tom J Nowell

18:18

It wasn't being loaded in a way that would be easy to undo, so I did the !is_admin && !is_super_admin() on wp_footer with the tracking js

kaiser

do the ! mine() && remove_yours()

Rarst

18:53

if array field might or might not have data which is better: omit it or fill it with false?

false / empty array / other appropriate empty value

kaiser

@Rarst ! isset imo is proper thing to use

Rarst

that's on read, what about write?

kaiser

or default

I meant as "preset". Do not fill it with false. That's misleading

Rarst

I think in this specific case it'll always be some default though...

kaiser

$tocheck ?: $default

Else you have to write $tocheck === false ? $default : $tocheck or similar

kaiser

19:17

Anybody ever used Git namespaces?

lkraav

20:22

dafuq

i will need to google how that's used

kaiser

I linked the SCM/Manual :D

kaiser

20:58

How to unfollow annoying bicycle helmet wearing twitter business advisers. Byebye, CurtisMcHale.

kaiser

21:20

git log -10 --dirstat=files,1,cumulative --ignore-blank-lines --abbrev-commit --oneline --graph --decorate

Still can't find where I put my nice stats command, but ^ this seriously rocks if you want to get a quick overview of what is going on in your repo.

Sven

@kaiser Put it in your .gitconfig

kaiser

@Sven In my global? Nah. Than it's not available on any server. I like to have full commands instead of alias.

Trying to save it as Gist - if I can find it. Had it on Twitter, but that's not really searchable via Google (or otherwise). And mentioned it to a friend in Hangout - again: not searchable in a usable fashion :P

Rarst

twitter fixed search recently, need to use the web site, clients don't get full access

Sven

@kaiser Let me know; maybe I need that, too ;)

kaiser

Seems I haven't put it on Twitter - or they didn't fix search

@Sven here we go

Sven

21:46

Okay, but you could also configure a custom .gitconfig on the server if you're uploading those snippets

I'm always having a global .gitconfig on the server; is there any other way to configure things like name or color?

Also I'm using a custom .bash_profile for each server...

lkraav

@kaiser what is the pct mark about there?

i use this alias

log1 = !git --no-pager log --graph --pretty=tformat:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

usually git log1 -20

kaiser

22:12

@Sven yes, that's possible. And I have a custom color .bash_profile here on my local machine. But I don't do that for remote servers. Too much work and one more thing to track.

@lkraav well, I don't need to know the commiter as I mostly work on my own. I like the colors, but normally I don't bother to throw them at a command. The --date=relative is something I really like. This is so human readable :)

lkraav

yep relative dates me like as well

kaiser

22:39

@lkraav shortened it a bit and saved it to the Gist. Thanks for that. git --no-pager log --graph --pretty=tformat:'%Cred%h%Creset %s (%cr)' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

kaiser

23:38

Everytime I read this #PHP bug report about the `::` operand, I feel like someone wanted to kick t world in t face https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51176

Tweeted by unserkaiser on December 15, 2014 at 11:37 PM

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