I used to solely employ Akismet to quarantine spam comments on RK.md, but after receiving hundreds of spam comments per day, a better solution was necessary. I sifted through the plugin repository and came across new preventative measures to eliminate spam in a slightly different way – by not allowing spam bots to post bogus […]

I embarked on my blogging journey four years ago, and what do I have to show for it? Well, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve surprised a lot of people with my cynicism and strong opinions. And maybe, just maybe… I’ve ticked some of them off too.

After trying out some new optimization schemes on this site, I was curious as to how concerned other bloggers are about the quality of their site’s performance. Using a Firefox plugin called YSlow (an extension to the Firebug plugin), my MacBook and I traversed the vast blogosphere in search of truth.