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Archive for November 5th, 2026

Cleaning <!– wp:* comment elements from the WordPress Gutenberg editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/05

The only reason the very keyboard unfriendly WordPress Gutenberg editor can be a block editor is that it inserts tons of HTML comment elements starting with <!-- wp: in the code like for instance <!-- wp:paragraph -->…<!-- /wp:paragraph -->.

That makes the HTML even heavier than it already is, and getting rid of it wasn’t easy to find but is easy to do.

I wanted a JavaScript based solution, but could not find any quickly enough so for now these website based solutions work OK-ish when enabling the “clean comments” checkbox and then perform a clean action:

More links:

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Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 – Tyler Cipriani

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/05

Infinite magic awaits the intrepid developer willing to abuse git plumbing. After all, git is just a database with a terrible interface.

From [Wayback/Archive] Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 – Tyler Cipriani

I wonder how various endpoint security solutions handle this (:

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Blue team, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »