I just discovered this rewrite rule that will remove all trailing slashes from URLs in Nginx. With the rule in place, you can force all requests for http://example.com/about/ to use http://example.com/about.

rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;

Empty index.php for plugins directory

via #8699 (Empty index.php for plugins dir) – WordPress Trac.

Good to see this is now part of WordPress.  I always did it manually for my sites.

If you want to post to Twitter using the linux command line, you can use this little bash script:

#!/bin/bash
 
username=YourUsernameHere
password=YourPasswordHere
 
curl -u $username:$password -d status="$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Add it to a file called “twitter” in the ~/bin directory of your home directory.

You may have to refresh your bash profile by running one of these commands:

. ~/.profile
. ~/.bash_profile

Enjoy!

I just logged into Feedburner and was amazed that my Woot product feed has 243 subscribers!

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If anyone knows where bigfoot lives, contact this man.

Some beautiful pieces of digital artwork

The GeoEye-1 satellite will capture digital images of Earth from a distance of 423 miles, while moving at 4.5 miles per second.

[crn.com]

Wow.

Far better it is to dare mighty things…even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy, nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

-Teddy Roosevelt

Plus, most of the drivers are always looking around to make sure they don’t get car jacked. All this adds up to perfect bicycling atmosphere!!

Haha! Said in regard to cycling in Detroit. I actually love biking in Detroit and have never had a problem.

Is the Detroit Metro area the most cyclist unfriendly in the USA? – Bike Forums.

Watch this video! Where the Hell is Matt?

You can thank me in the comments!