Leonid Mamchenkov

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs

Excellent stuff. Via this Quora discussion, which is worth a read.

Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

Excellent Quora thread with many solid examples and explanations.

Developers are also the only group where they are asked to do something which has never been done before, and tell someone else how long it will take before they even know what actually needs to be done.

WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts

You gotta love WordPress! For anything that you can pretty much think of, there is a plugin already. Just now I realized that I’ve been posting quite a few things at once, and that it would be way better to distribute such moments of “creativity” across the whole day. There is, of course, the manual way of post scheduling, but that’s boring and annoying. Instead, I thought, there could be a plugin to do so. Gladly, I checked the WordPress plugins before jumping into my own coding.

Auto-Schedule Posts plugin does just that and more. For now, I’m setting it to a 60 minute interval and leaving everything else default. Let’s see how that will work out.

Update: Unfortunately I had to disable this plugin as it conflicts with the Social plugin (and, I suspect, many other ones too). The post is not available until later, yet social network notifications are being sent out, resulting in bad experience (endless redirect loops and such).

Child and Sibling Selectors in CSS

Do you know what is the difference between these two?

ul li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; }
ul > li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; }

If not, you should read this article. Very simple and straightforward explanation of a few CSS selectors.

Two more minor changes

I’ve done a couple of more changes to the site:

Links in posts content are now bold. This has been bugging me since the first day I started using this theme, but I never found time until now to actually fix it. Looking through the post, links are now easily identifiable – no need to move your mouse over every word you think has a different color shade.
Did some magic for Google to pick up the rich text snippet for the author. Hopefully, after the next time it indexes the site, there will be my little avatar right next to blog links in results. While I new the generic steps to do so, this post was helpful. Let’s see if it works now.