Tag: coding

  • Trusting code

    2024-03-24

    You kinda have a relationship with code from your projects. You probably have feelings about it. As I've been thinking about code style, I've also been thinking about how it's important to build up trust in a code base.

  • Readable code tips: Introduction

    2024-03-09

    Poor code readability slows us down. So I'm going to post some of my code-readability tips! This is an introduction with the ideas behind it and all the caveats.

  • I made a(nother) static site generator

    2023-12-31

    This time it's a static-file-driven, mobile-app-like blog. And the tooling I made should be usable on any simple WordPress blog! But... WHY???

  • Quotes and Thoughts

    2023-12-20

    There's a lot going on right now and I've been having a lot of thoughts about what is going on. In some cases I think I've expressed these thoughts well. In other cases, other people have expressed things that have helped me. Here are some quotes and thoughts...

  • I’m using AI

    2023-11-26

    This AI tech is amazing. And works so well when aiding humans rather than replacing them. But gosh I can see how it breaks the web.

  • The View from the Bottom of the Pile

    2023-10-02

    It seems upside-down, but sometimes when you're at the bottom of the pile, you can see a whole load more looking back up! And there's opportunities for programmers here.

  • I’m tired of web dev

    2023-07-02

    The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.

  • Eeek! What does Gutenberg Phase 3 mean for Turbo Admin

    2023-03-25

    Turbo Admin features to be in WordPress core! 🙌 The WordPress Gutenberg Phase 3 announcement is very interesting for me. Why? Because it will be disruptive for my Turbo Admin plugin/browser extension. An admin redesign is in the works which, especially if done in React, may make Turbo Admin impossible to run. Fortunately they are also considering […]