June, 24, 2023 archives

in poking around with adding support for comments here, i looked at integrating with the akismet anti-spam service, and the existing php libraries for using it didn’t work how i wanted or brought in dependencies that i wanted to avoid. so i made a simple akismet-api package that just uses guzzlehttp under the hood.

i haven’t made a test suite or added real documentation yet, so you should consider it pre-production, but it seems to work okay.

cleantalk is another anti-spam service that we use for registrations and comments on our store website and their php library is kinda non-idiomatic and strange, too. a reimplementation of that might be in the cards.

i am not really a sneakerhead, but i’m out on the periphery of it and as someone with an interest in retail and small business, i followed the news about how nike pulled out of retailers to focus on direct-to-consumer sales. the news now is that nike is re-engaging with at least some of the retailers it had left, including dsw and macy’s. “Nike’s Wholesale Pivot: A Masterclass In Omnichannel Strategy” posits that they took advantage of the pandemic chaos to reset their relationships, which looks pretty plausible.

the impact and implentation of direct-to-consumer sales is a big issue in the art supply industry and i don’t know if there is any company in particular that i would point to as having figured out the best balance.

not that i think that there is anyone reading this, but you can now comment on entries for seven days after they have been posted.

you can throw html in your comment, but it will get filtered by html purifier.

spam will be deleted promptly if it wasn’t already blocked or sequestered by akismet.