Category: Asides
Creative Programming Videos from Daniel Shiffman
I really like watching videos about programming. I especially like watching videos about programming I don’t do every day. I think it helps my brain subliminally realize the world is bigger than the WordPress theme I’m working on right now. My latest fascination is Daniel Shiffman‘s YouTube channel, [Undefined]. I don’t even recall how I stumbled on the channel, […]
Posted: December 14, 2016
Jetbrains: The unicorn Silicon Valley doesn’t like to talk about
It is simple. Jetbrains has the better product. For each IDE that Jetbrains offers, there exists a free alternative, whether its Eclipse, Visual Studio or Sublime Text. Some of these, like Eclipse & Visual Studio even have huge resources behind them. The reason you pay for a Jebrains’ IDE is simply cause it is better. […]
Posted: February 23, 2016
How to do a Product Critique
This article uses the word ‘app’ a lot but I think it can be generalized into many things, even WordPress plugins. I think the article does a great job of explaining the marketing process for a digital product. There is so much that goes into the process of figuring out your user base and trying […]
Posted: July 16, 2015
One Question That Will Reveal What Kind Of Coder You Are
Is software development more like building a bridge or is it more like painting a painting? I hadn’t heard this question personally before, but honestly I think it’s a mix of the two. Programming is definitely an (abstract) art form in my opinion. There’s so much to the expression of how code could work, and […]
Posted: July 16, 2015
The Gentle Art of Patch Review
Open source is wicked hard. It’s difficult on a number of levels, most of them social if we’re honest. It’s really difficult to express emotion as text. Whether that be in an email, a Slack channel, a Trac ticket or Github issue. There are times when someone may mean well and it comes across all […]
Posted: July 15, 2015
The damage of examples
This is a fantastic reminder for us, as we all love checking out code demos don’t we? And this is inevitably damaging. These examples can be horrible in many ways – reliability, portability, security – and accessibility. It raises a question of laziness, something for which I am a repeat offender. Code examples are how […]
Posted: July 15, 2015
Using Chrome DevTools to profile the jsconf.eu site
This is a fascinating look into diagnosing scroll performance issues using Chrome’s dev tools. I immediately thought back to the days before dev tools existed and although it was before any of the fancy stuff we’re doing today, I do not envy the days before these tools existed.
Posted: June 19, 2015
Flip the Script!
How frustrating can it be to try and debug minified code? How much harder is it to try and debug someone else’s minified code that you have absolutely no control over? Flip the Script is a Chrome extension that does something amazing by adding a new tab to the Web Inspector: The extension lists all […]
Posted: June 02, 2015
5 Minute Physics by David DeSandro
David DeSandro is a long time hero of mine, but this is the first I’ve seen a talk by him. It’s a killer five minutes that’s worth your time. The physics of animation is one of those things that feels small until you play with something that got it wrong. Then it all feels wrong. […]
Posted: June 02, 2015
6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience
It’s no secret that I strongly believe in a powerful on-site search. I was thrilled to see this article outline some really great implementations of on-site search, but one specific bit stuck out to me: A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases, searches performed by only […]
Posted: May 01, 2015