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John Gruber on Annoying Sharing Bars
Over on Daring Fireball, John Gruber has some true words to say about those pesky floating sharing bars (or “dickbars” like he calls them) used by Medium and others. A website should not fight the browser. Let the browser provide the chrome, and simply provide the content. Web developers know this is right — these…
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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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Inclusive Design 24: Watch 24 hours of live presentations on accessibility on 9 June
Next week, The Paciello Group is sponsoring a 24 hour live stream of webinars on Accessibility and Inclusive design for the fourth consecutive year. The videos will presumably be available on YouTube after the event too, at least I hope they will. 🙂 More info: Inclusive Design 24 (#ID24) 9 June 2017 sponsored by The…
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New Scientist goes independent
My main source of scientific news since childhood has gone independent. The future for the magazine looks bright I hope. We are pleased to announce that New Scientist has been acquired by a company set up specifically to publish the magazine. This marks a return to independent ownership and operation for the first time in…
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WP-CLI Tips From the Maintainer
On Tuesday, Daniel Bachhuber published a list of advanced tips on using WP-CLI. My favourites in his list are wp rewrite list –match= (for debugging rewrite rules) and –prompt (when you don’t remember the arguments). If you’re a WordPress developer and don’t know what WP-CLI is, stop everything right now and go to wp-cli.org. https://danielbachhuber.com/2017/05/16/10-advanced-wp-cli-tricks/
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Microsoft’s Role in WannaCry
Sam Biddle wrote for the Intercept on the recent WannaCry malware disaster. According to Sam, it’s not possible to name a single culprit for what happened, but militarism and greed are the two main forces at play here. This bit stood out to me: Microsoft also did not create WannaCry. But it did create something something nearly as bad: Windows…
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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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