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Sometimes when you're working on a problem, a solution is thrown right at your face. We found ourselves in this exact situation a few days ago while putting together Hackaday's new retro edition; a way to select a random Hackaday article was needed and [Alexander van Teijlingen] of codepanel.net just handed us the solution. To grab every Hackaday URL ever, [Alex] wrote a small Python script … [Read more...]
[PT] tipped us off about a new way to screen bots from automatically leaving comments. Resisty is like CAPTCHA but it requires you to decipher color bands on a resistor instead of mangled text. This won't do much for the cause of digitizing books, but if you can never remember your color codes this is a good way to practice. Resisty comes as a plug-in for Wordpress, add it to your blog and for a … [Read more...]
BadPoetry WordPress 2.7 has just been released and features a complete interface overhaul. Hack a Day runs on WordPress MU hosted by WordPress.com, so we got this update last week. We run standard WordPress.org on all of our personal blogs though. We recommend it because it's free, has a massive userbase, and if you host it yourself, you can do whatever you want with it. To make the upgrade … [Read more...]
Well, that was fun... no, not really, but we're back from the dead like Steve Jobs. We've been getting DDoS'd since essentially the first day we originally came back. After killing a 1G connection, we decided to find a different solution. Since the world didn't end this week, we brought the site back using Wordpress.com as the new host. We now return to our regular blog shenanigans. Here's to … [Read more...]
How do you protect your own blog from getting hacked? There's never a foolproof answer, but with some added tools and caution, you can make your website a little safer from getting into harm's way. Cats Who Code has five plug-ins and tips you can use to protect your Wordpress install. Some of the tips are common sense advice that can apply to anything related to technology - such as making backups … [Read more...]
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