Shut Up About the iPad 2 Already, Sheesh

What the hell is wrong with everyone? You included. Everyone seems to be speculating, masturbating and frothing at the mouth over the possibility of a new iPad being announced Marc 2nd, 2011. What the hell is the big deal? CNET, a whole bunch of news websites and of course MG Siegler from TechCrunch (no surprise [...]

Pocket Hipster: An iPhone app for hipsters everywhere

Released today into the Apple app store is the Pocket Hipster app from Josephmark, We Are Hunted and The Echo Nest. In a nutshell it’s a simple application with hand drawn animated hipsters insulting you, talking hipster gibberish about eBay and gluten free cupcakes. You can ask the hipster in question to critique a random [...]

It’s Time To Consider A Complete Rewrite of WordPress

Wordpress first came onto the scene in 2003, fast forward to 2011 and the code-base is so bloated and badly written it makes me rage just looking at the code base. The way WordPress is coded is a confusing mess, global variables used absolutely everywhere and you never know where they’re set or instantiated. Ambiguous [...]

The Sony Playstation 3 Console Firmware Master Key (for your enjoyment)

Freedom of speech for the win. Sony are trying to remove this code from the internet because it effectively lets you sign any piece of software to run on the Playstation 3 console as if it were 100% legit without the use of firmware hacks and exploits. This is the equivalent of a master key, [...]

It’s Time To Stop Supporting Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

Nobody uses IE7 any more (well 91% of people on the internet at least). Sure, your mother probably still uses Internet Explorer 7 because she’s stupid and doesn’t know anything about computers (you still have to show her where the power button is sometimes), but the market share of IE7 is currently sitting around 9% [...]