Creativity, curiosity, and code
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 […]
Some un-structured thoughts on Google's (AMP) project and Facebook's Instant Articles and how they might affect small publishers.
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 […]
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 […]
A bunch of incomplete thoughts about the openness and commercialisation of WordPress
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/
Achievement obtained: WordPress core contributor
If you've resolved to take a photo-of-the-day in 2015 and you're into self publishing then my WP Quick Image plugin might help you out.
What's new in 2015? A WordPress screencasting challenge? I'm crazy!
I think that the distinction between developers and designers is actually an important one that we should keep, not throw away.