Apparently my main RSS feed has been broken since January and no one noticed until now. Many thanks to Tim for e-mailing me and notifying me of the issue.
I’ve removed the broken FeedBurner redirect and the feed is working again. Sorry about that and welcome back to the people who read my site via RSS. You missed a lot! 🙁
If you’re writing WordPress code that makes remote requests and need to easily debug the requests, here’s some helper code to do it. This requires that you’re using WordPress’s HTTP API which you should already be doing — directly using cURL or other methods is wrong and a great way to make your code not cross-server compatible.
[code lang=”php”]add_action( ‘http_api_debug’, ‘viper_http_api_debug’, 10, 5 );
function viper_http_api_debug( $response, $type, $class, $args, $url ) {
// You can change this from error_log() to var_dump() but it can break AJAX requests
error_log( ‘Request URL: ‘ . var_export( $url, true ) );
error_log( ‘Request Args: ‘ . var_export( $args, true ) );
error_log( ‘Request Response : ‘ . var_export( $response, true ) );
}[/code]
That will log the request URL, the request arguments, and the whole response HTTP_API object to your error log file. The last message one will be pretty long/spammy but it’ll give you headers, the body, and everything else. Since it’s an instance of HTTP_API, you can also do things like this if you want to:
[code lang=”php” light=”1″]error_log( ‘Response Code: ‘ . wp_remote_retrieve_response_code( $response ) );[/code]
The video documents the (usually) very peaceful life of a fire lookout in the Gardner Lookout on the East Peak of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County, California. I’ve been a Marin County Fire Department volunteer lookout for two years and deeply love the mountain and the peace it brings to us here in the Bay Area. Perhaps this 6-minute video will convey some of the emotions I feel when sitting (and sleeping) on her peak.
[via Colby Aley‘s Twitter stream]