How I build-in Tumblr in my Drupal install is already very close to what I want to do with Tumblr on my homepage. Now I just need to write a minimal widget and stuff the code in there and instead of the regular posts, only go to the photos. And I'll have Tumblr photos on the homepage again.
Update: those who look to the right can see the Tumblr photos again. So on the homepage. It works quite well and doesn't take up any more time. Someday I'll put together the plugin that I built there, at the moment it's still a bit raw.
Sunday reading: Google Streetview - linked because I'm fed up with all the pro-Streetview talk and the "who pixelates doesn't understand the net" faction. The net is a medium for the whole society and not just a playground for some tech enthusiasts. And whoever ties their net freedom to the permission for unrestricted data collection for a large corporation has a significant understanding deficit. Especially when the sole purpose of this corporation is the systematic evaluation of these data mountains for the optimization of advertising.
API | Tumblr - maybe I want to do more with it than was used in the previous PHP example.
Display photos from Tumblr (using JSON method) is PHP, but I should be able to easily rebuild this in JavaScript and then run it only client-side.
hyphenator I could take a look at, because then the hyphenation simply runs with JavaScript in the browser. It's only interesting for the websites themselves anyway, feed readers have to render themselves.
Update: yeah, looks good. Now I can look at my homepage again without getting pimples, and the integration was very simple with their custom package builder - go through a few checkboxes, build an optimized download version of the library and include it in the head of the blog. As a class, I simply used entry-content, which means that all posts (and only those) are provided with hyphenation. And since it's client-side, it doesn't affect the feed or any other internal paths.
... one should not necessarily operate. The Tumblr widget needs about 300ms due to its synchronous access to Tumblr, and the typography plugin needs another 300ms. Ouch. Ok, my text just looks typographically crappy, I don't care.
With the cache, I'm currently at xcache - let's see if it produces strange messages like apc. I suspect conflicts between apc and WP Super Cache for my problems, because every time the problem occurred, I also had these strange GC messages from apc in the log. And no messages from PHP, which indicates that nothing was executed by PHP (which also explains the empty output).
There is support for the object cache of xcache in WordPress. Great, you can activate it with a small plugin. I'll save the link, because without this module the blog is faster (and 27 vs 29 DB queries is not exactly a wildly successful operation of the object cache). With the object cache activated, the blog was immediately back in the 700ms+ zone - quite without time-consuming plugins.
For Tumblr, I will now build a JavaScript-Ajax solution that uses the Tumblr API to find my images and push them into the HTML of the page. It's only for the look and then a Tumblr-Connect problem won't be accidentally cached.
But it's a shame about the quite remarkably well-functioning hyphenation from the typography plugin. You can't have everything. Render times in the range of above half a second I find silly. Maybe I'll change my mind again when I've stared at my blog for a while longer.
WordPress › Support » WP Super Cache sometimes ignites a blank Home Page! Need to restart Apache - sounds exactly like my problem, but it's already a year old. Seems to be some combination of many parts. For now, I've turned off APC, as it also produces strange messages in the error log, for which there are no really satisfying comments on the net to find. Somehow, the whole PHP stuff is really shitty. Too many parts coming from too many different places and all somehow but not quite working together. Basically, everything runs, but as soon as you want to get a grip on the performance problems, there are all sorts of strange and inexplicable effects. All just wild hacks.