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Let’s Tango
The past few months, I’ve been playing with Facebook’s React UI library and the coming REST API, and having a blast considering new possibilities in WordPress theming. I recently started building up a...
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Theming in the Future
This past Thursday, I gave a talk to the Vancouver WordPress Developer Meetup called “Theming in the Future”. We covered the joys and challenges of working with the coming core REST API and the React...
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Fears
I gave a talk at WordCamp Montreal 2014 about fear: the power that it has over many aspects of my life, and what I do to try and tame it during my workday. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
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Sebastian Markbåge: Minimal API Surface Area
This talk is a detailed explanation of why I spend my time learning core WordPress rather than frameworks – even though I’ve never fully understood why myself. It also explains why Underscores has been...
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A tale of two developers
At WordCamp Montreal 2014, I gave a talk on fears. In it, I told of a story from the Drupal community, that compares two approaches of open-source contribution: collaborative and isolated. I was unable...
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TIL: HTTPS sites are not so hard any more.
Like many, I was curious to see how the Let’s Encrypt project would roll out in the real world. I remember looking at documentation for setting it up when it first came out, and quickly moved on – it...
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TIL: Node app deployment with SSL
I thought SSL certificates with a DigitalOcean VPS were easy; then today I learned to deploy a Node app with Now by Zeit. Following their basic tutorial, I deployed an example app in seconds. Then...
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Create React App and MVPs
create-react-app is a great little tool by Facebook that allows the creation of React apps with a single command. It’s extremely simple and very effective: in just one week of work, the authors removed...
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Programmers don’t need to be “smart”
I recently overheard someone say that to be a programmer, “you have to be smart”. Putting aside the debate of what it means to “be smart”, I can say with absolute confidence, that this is not the case....
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Installing Xdebug on macOS High Sierra
With a new work computer (my four-year anniversary gift from Automattic – come work with us!), I’ve been lazy lately, falling into old error_log() habits since I didn’t have Xdebug set up yet. I also...
View ArticleHow Facebook is killing [insert creative income here], and why I give money...
It’s a depressing day when people yearn for the old days of website traffic driving ad income, yet… here we are. This article rings true in so many ways – not just for comedy, but any independent...
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TIL: auto-input yes/no/anything to command prompts
Have you ever been running a script or command, and just want to easily pass “yes” to all prompts? It turns out there’s a simple command for that: yes. Piping yes to a script will provide every script...
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