Category: Web
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Switched to a VPS, again
During the years, my blog hosting has gone back and forth between a self-configured VPS and shared hosting. Thanks to a special WordCamp Europe 2015 offer, for the past couple of years I’ve been on Siteground shared hosting, which has worked fine. I certainly have no complaints: the site has been fast, setup was easy…
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Rachel Andrew’s List on Developments in CSS
If you’re at all interested in new CSS features and their implementations in browsers, bookmark this: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/05/01/whats-happening-in-css/
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CSS Grid Layout and Accessibility
CSS Grid is the future. However just like with many other layout techniques, it’s very easy to go crazy with it and cause an accessibility nightmare. There’s an excellent article on MDN on potential pitfalls: If at any time in the design process you find yourself using grid to relocate the position of an element,…
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10up’s NodeifyWP Marries WordPress and Node.js
Looks like 10up just released something I was waiting for but didn’t know it: NodeifyWP. With NodeifyWP, we can serve a true isomorphic application from within PHP: we get the benefits of WordPress and the benefits of isomorphic Node.js technologies. No separate Node.js/Express server is necessary. Sounds crazy. Can’t wait to try it out! Read…
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Jeremy Keith nails it again, on progressive web apps
There seems to be an inherent assumption that native is intrinsically “better” than the web, and that the only way that the web can “win” is to match native apps note for note. But that misses out on all the things that only the web can do—instant distribution, low-friction sharing, and the ability to link…
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My Takeaways from WordCamp Europe 2016 (so far)
The fourth WordCamp Europe was organized this year in Vienna, Austria. It’s the biggest WordCamp in the world to date, with over 2200 attendees. Along with most of my colleagues, I’ve been to all of them. One of the biggest things that has kept me using and building with WordPress for over 11 years is…
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Jeremy Keith on “Regressive Web Apps”
My favourite champion of the “One Web” Jeremy Keith wrote a really good post last week, triggered by the recent Google I/O conference and the (unfortunate, in my opinion) trend toward trying to make web apps behave like native apps and considering that “best practice”. I recommend reading the whole article (and following his blog),…
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Experimenting with the WP REST API
As a quick weekend project, I added some ajax-y goodness to my site with the help of the WP REST API plugin (set to be included soon in WordPress core) and History.pushState. There are some bugs, namely I still need to get the appropriate Jetpack gallery, related posts and share button features to load when accessed via javascript, if…
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A European WordCamp
Last night I got home at 3:00 from the first ever multi-nation WordCamp, WordCamp Europe 2013 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The weekend was packed with many inspiring talks, but above all it was a unique chance to meet other developers and designers from around Europe and the world. Based on discussions I had during the…
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An Introduction for WordCamp Europe
Hello WordCamp Europe attendees! My name’s Daniel and I live in Tampere, Finland. After seeing similar posts by Rhys, Nuno and Jeremy, I thought I’d steal the idea and introduce myself to the WordCamp Europe croud in blog form. Hope you don’t mind. 🙂 So here goes: I’m the main translator for the Finnish version…
Daniel Koskinen 