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  • Command Line shortcuts: a cheatsheet

    2018-12-31

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

  • Statamic: First impressions

    2018-11-22

    While the confusion over the launch of WordPress’s new “Gutenberg” editor continues, I’ve been considering some other options. As someone who also works in the Laravel world, Statamic is making a pretty big blip on my radar. It’s a content management system that ‘runs on a “flat file” engine based on Markdown and YAML files’. […]

  • One does not simply log into WordPress and build a form

    2018-09-30

    There are more questions you need to ask about forms than you think.

  • Beat the Street – tinkering with a virtual version of the game

    2018-09-29

    In Swindon at the moment there is this brilliant “game” called “Beat the Street” intended to get people out and about and walking and cycling. They have put more than 170 boxes around the town, strapped to lampposts, and they have given out thousands of fobs and cards. The way the “game” works is that […]

  • Helpful IT notice: emails with your password in!

    2018-09-21

    Yesterday I looked in the spam box in my email account, and found that there were some messages in there that had an old, out-of-date password in the subject line. These were quite scary-looking messages trying to blackmail me. But the presence of an actual password that I used to use made them seem very […]

  • Be careful what you write! Basic SEO is easy, important, and really boring.

    2018-09-16

    Trendy, abstract, modernist marketing is great, and you can still use some of that, but be careful what you write: you may need to be boring to be found!

  • CSS and… err …job titles?

    2018-09-12

    I think it's easier to switch languages than to switch disciplines. We need job titles that better describe our disciplines.

  • Do website owners need a “drivers license”, or should websites be more “self-driving”?

    2018-09-11

    Surely many of the things that I set up on new WordPress sites with plugins and settings tweaks are solved problems now. So why do I have to add them myself?

  • Charging up the SchoolBot

    2018-09-11

    I've been gently nudging SchoolBot development along in my mornings and evenings the last week - here's where it's at.

  • Blooming MailChimp Groups and GDPR fields

    2018-08-27

    Some things on the internet are inexplicably hard. e.g. Bloom + MailChimp + Groups + GDPR fields ?‍♂️

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