Zig and the Zig Guy
The Zig guy smart, considered, articulate and humble. We need more people in tech like this. I hope he doesn't lose his focus and values.
Tag: coding
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LLMs helped/hindered me building a 1-person social media web app
Yes, despite being an AI doom-speaker, I tried using a app-builder to make a simple, social-media-like, private, journalling web app. This post explains what I did and why, and outlines the development process I took, including the point at which I decided the AI wasn't up to it and started making it manually.
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Trust me: You don’t want to make little personal apps… especially not like that!
Like "slop" text, images and videos, the ability to create apps and websites is fascinating. But I don't believe it's ultimately good for the creators or for the users.
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The Way I Code (and have been coding for 30 years)
Start with good decomposition. Then use encapsulation to create good abstractions. That's how I code. That's how I was taught to code 30 years ago. And it's still how I code today.
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One does not simply update one’s dependencies
I started trying to explain what I was doing and why, and as I did so I realised all the many, many things you have to understand for this process to make sense.
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I’m not sure I understand themes any more – a strange journey through old WordPress code.
Come on a journey with me as I - a an experienced developer - dive into old WordPress theme code, find myself in an enormous tangle, and question my life choices.
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WordPress REST API Auth nonces in POST requests
If you're using a script that uses cookie authentication with the WordPress REST API then you may also need a nonce. Here's how to make this work!
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Readable code tips: Use “is” or “has” for Boolean variables/functions
Previous Tip: Don’t inline everything! This is a little naming convention that I find really helpful. If a variable is Boolean type, or if a function returns a Boolean type, then consider if you can name it with an “is” or “has” prefix (or somewhere in the name). Because in many cases, not doing this […]
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Friction
I want to talk (again) about friction. Things that slow us down. How some friction is good, and some is bad.
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Static not-Scrabble.
I made a server-less Scrabble clone that saves data in URLs. This post explains why and how, including a primer on binary data representations, and a little JavaScript library to help do this using BigInts!