Category: Techie

  • Websites without photos

    2016-11-22

    Examples of websites that use no, or very few photos, simplifying design choices, and making them super fast.

  • Software doesn’t have to be terrible

    2016-08-06

    TL;DR: We’re coding for the web all wrong. And it’s mostly because of the languages we’re using. We’re piling hack upon hack upon hack. Good coding principles and practices are becoming more common in web development, but I can’t help wishing we could take a few steps back and start with tools that help us write better […]

  • Thoughts on AMP

    2016-02-26

    Some un-structured thoughts on Google's (AMP) project and Facebook's Instant Articles and how they might affect small publishers.

  • What will WordPress be?

    2015-12-03

    Change is upon us! If you work with WordPress, that is. I won’t go into details on the WordPress REST API that’s going to be a part of the software soon, or of “Calypso” which is a new tool for edit content and managing WordPress sites (both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org) that uses an API (or […]

  • Not so rapid application development

    2015-11-26

    I recently re-launched hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com, my super, super simple birth announcement service. I’ve rewritten it in Laravel: a PHP-based rapid application development framework. And one thing I learned is that launching even a super, super simple web application in public is a far from rapid process. Hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com is basically a big red button that changes the […]

  • WP Quick Image update

    2015-07-05

    Yay! Pushed out v0.2 of WP Quick Image. It now lets you set a category, tag and other options for posts. See https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-quick-image/