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  • 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.

  • Laravel: Being explicit in authorization policies

    2019-05-09

    How to specify a specific policy/class when authorizing using the controller helper function in Laravel.

  • 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 […]

  • 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!

  • On balance of creativity and passivity with kids and screentime

    2018-06-27

    This is from a great episode of the ChangeLog podcast that interviews Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged: a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. I struggle with how much screentime our kids have. Perhaps this quote will inspire is to do more creative things […]

  • More struggling with JS: how the PHP -> JS interface is broken and why this is painful

    2018-06-15

    Yesterday I was struggling with getting Vue components to do non-AJAXy things and wondering why on earth this was so difficult.

  • GIVE ME MY STATIC ANALYSIS!

    2018-05-10

    In which I lament my own utter incompetence, but also switch back from VS Code to PHPStorm in a flash and cry quietly over programming languages.

  • Where I’m NOW at with WordPress: Gutenberg as a developer

    2018-01-29

    As a developer, I think I'm coming around to the idea of the new WordPress Gutenberg editor. Here's my updated thoughts and reflections.

  • Re-learning to learn to code (and discovering JavaScript’s foibles!)

    2017-01-08

    I don’t know JS So I’ve kinda got stuck in to learning JavaScript. I’ve previously said that I think JavaScript is like the assembler of the web: coding in vanilla JS isn’t really something you should do because it’s too easy to get things wrong, so you should have a layer of abstraction on top. […]

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