Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Starting Wednesday, about 95 percent of content the British newspaper The Telegraph publishes online will flow through a new content management system — one that it developed in-house through a collaboration between its product team and the newsroom, aimed at simplifying its digital publishing process. “Our old content management system is about 10 years old…
What is the best UX pattern to display products on an e-commerce website: pagination, a “Load more” button or infinite scrolling? At Baymard Institute, we’ve conducted several year-long large-scale usability studies of more than 50+ leading e-commerce websites. We tested (among other things) these three design patterns for loading products, both on desktop and mobile….
After being frustrated by missing simple coding style errors in my WordPress contributions, I finally decided to employ some tooling to help automate the process of checking my code. This is how I set up my machine so the Atom editor will automatically check code for WordPress Coding Standards. Install PHP CodeSniffer PHP_CodeSniffer is an automated tool for…
Aram Zucker-Scharff walks through PressForward, a Sloan Foundation-funded open-source WordPress plugin designed to help WP users aggregate content across the internet. The plugin collects and archives content from across the web, allowing users to subscribe to RSS feeds, view lists of articles, read them in full, and then discuss and nominate items as a group….
Several years ago I got curious about how css worked at scale. When I first started out, there weren’t nearly as many learning resources as there are now. There were a few books that my friends lent me and a couple of decent blog posts. But CSS was still pretty new and most people hadn’t…
Okay developers, time to have a serious talk. As you are probably already aware, this week React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather astounding. A simple NPM package called left-pad that was a dependency of React, Babel, and other packages. One that, at the…
I’ve Just Liberated My Modules A few weeks ago a patent lawyer sent me an e-mail asking me to unpublish “kik” module from NPM. My answer was “no” and he replied me saying “I don’t wanna be dick about it, but “kik” is our registered brand and we got lawyers all over the world.” When…
Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript. A couple of hours ago, Azer Koçulu unpublished more than 250 of his modules from NPM, which is a popular package manager used by JavaScript projects to install dependencies. Koçulu yanked his source code because,…
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Do you use *.dev domains for local development? Me too. And, since the dawn of my existence, I’ve edited /etc/hosts to add new *.dev domains — an extra 30 seconds of mental overhead at the beginning of every project, and pure hell when I’m working on a project with unlimited subdomains. The solution? dnsmasq, which…