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Minor correction: Identicons were created by Don Park who open sourced a Java implementation. Scott adapted it for WordPress and gives credit to Don credit for the idea in your lin…

Gravatar uses hashes for privacy so the email addresses themselves do not have to be transmitted. To maintain email privacy, you could use a straight pass-through when using Gravat…

Gravatar is designed that way so you can use any default image. The technique is described in the Gravatar docs under "Default Image." http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/…

Here's a modified version with Cyrillic, Greek and Polish (ISO-8859-2) letters, along with a few more for good measure. ǏñҭëՐŋâťḯṏṋαłїżæŧíøṅ

Cool. Seems like adding Disqus might be useful.

Would it be useful to remove the tabs so you can scan them all at once? I've seen blogs that have both Disqus and FB displayed together.

Great webcast. Placeholders are important right from the get go. I just ported Robohash to Perl using Mojolicious and Moose. You can see placeholders in action here: https://github…

Patent 5,946,647 (filed on February 1, 1996) seems to cover automatically scanning/recognizing data, creating links for identified data and then providing a way to act on those lin…

There are similar metrics for job openings. It seems plausible that Python is becoming an all-purpose language while the focus for Rails / Ruby is on web apps. If true, this would …

As mentioned, lawyers and doctors are required to stay up to date in their fields in order to continue practicing. In California, lawyers need 25 MCLE credits every 3 years ( http:…