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  • Tech Note: Checking the integrity of npm modules

    2019-10-21

    Quick tech note on how to find and check the integrity hash value of an npm package.

  • WordPress: Fixing shortcodes that enqueue JavaScript when used in ACF fields

    2019-09-13

    A quick bit of WordPress learning on the interaction between ACF, shortcodes, and enqueuing and registering scripts.

  • Tech communities are good

    2019-09-02

    Drama is a tiny-but-highly-visible portion of what goes on in tech communities. Let's shout about the good stuff too.

  • My Government Petition Tracker: Some stats and facts

    2019-03-22

    A quick write-up of how I built the government petition tracker that I made and how it's performed over the last 24 hours of being quite a lot busier than normal.

  • Going Vanilla – initial thoughts on building a theme with no build tools

    2019-02-11

    I'm attempting to build a WordPress theme with no build tool using only "vanilla" CSS and JS. Here's some initial thoughts I've had after getting started.

  • My new CSS framework: SUCSS!

    2019-01-16

    Everyone is writing about CSS, and I work with CSS, so I guess I should write about CSS too. Here's the new idea: SUCSS!

  • Not all software development processes are equal

    2019-01-14

    Coding is easy / software engineering is hard – we need more engineers! Foreward: This post has been in my drafts for ages. I’m hesitant to publish because…well…how could little old me have a valid critique of such a software engineering giant? Yet I keep reading it and I’m really happy with what I’ve written […]

  • Where do I fit?

    2019-01-10

    I'm a bit stuck with my plans for 2019. The big question really, is: where do I fit in the world of web development?

  • Skirting the iOS/Safari audio auto-play policy for UI sound effects

    2019-01-07

    In some cases involving asynchronous operations, Safari's auto-playing media policies seem to prevent playing sounds, when playing them should be OK and when other browsers are fine with playing them. Here's a dive into it with example code and a workaround!

  • Command Line shortcuts: a cheatsheet

    2018-12-31

    A bunch of @climagic's command-line keyboard shortcuts collated for reference.

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