It’s been difficult for me to post pictures along with my posts these past few weeks. I recently upgraded the core software that powers this website. In doing so, a little plugin that I was using to pull pictures from my Flickr feed broke. Unfortunately the guy who wrote the plugin has been AWOL for a few months now.
It’s one of the tragedies and marvels of free, open-source software. On the one hand, the author of a plug-in that I and a great many other people rely on just up and disappeared. When the core software caused the plugin to misbehave, the guy was no where to be found. However, after several weeks of frustration being vented by his clients on his website, one of them just took the code and fixed it himself.
