WordPress 5.6 “Simone” has now been released and is available for download.
For the first time, the release squad was made up entirely of people identifying as women or non-binary. In some corners of the internet this proved to be controversial.
Since July last year, I’ve been lucky enough to work on the most interesting WordPress project in Australia: the WordPress foundation used for article editing on The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review, one of the country’s most read and influential news networks.
This product can in no way can be considered a typical WordPress instance as it is a highly customised edit screen used for creating articles. This was my second go round on the project; the first time I was a senior engineer at Human Made, working on it as a greenfield project. This time, I was an employee of Nine Publishing working on it as a mature project.
Yesterday was my last day at Nine Publishing, and after a lovely farewell get together with the team I signed out of G-Suite, Slack and I deleted my local Git repositories. Working on such a project once is privilege enough, to have the chance to work on it twice was an immense pleasure.
Swings and roundabouts but this week I am sick of it.
I don’t think the stream, per se, was the problem with the Nick Cave concert last night. It’s was a Vimeo embed, they know how to stream and devices optimise for video. It’s the page around it that @dicefm needs to fix.
A very common pattern on the web is to overlay text on a photo. It’s a lovely effect but one that requires care to get right.
The difficulty arrises for the web developer wishing to produce an accessible site because they can never be sure what the colour of the photo will be.
For WordPress site owners wishing to use real cron via a crontab job, it’s fairly common to see advice to use curl to request the site’s wp-cron.php file on a regular basis.
In the days before the WordPress CLI (WP-CLI), using the wp-cron.php file was the only technique available to site owners wishing to use real cron events.
I’m in London visiting friends for a couple of weeks and, predictably enough, took them to see West End production of Hamilton the Musical. Unfortunately one of my friend’s health has deteriorated over the last few years so queuing for entry to the theatre is a problem. We needed an access ticket.
This doesn’t feel like an access ticket, it feels like a VIP ticket.
Vote Yes! Pull Request is a small collection of custom styles to replace the approve button in Bit Bucket. ?️?
Add the following to the bitbucket domain using Stylish.
@import url(https://peterwilsoncc.github.io/vote-yes-pull-request/bb.css);Why? Because I am not one to let an offhand comment go unimplemented.
Replaces ‘Approve’ button with ‘Vote Yes’ in bitbucket? 💯🌈💯
— Tarei King (@tareiking) October 6, 2017
Occasionally I look at the theme for one of the first WordPress sites I developed. I look at my early PHP, my early CSS, my early JavaScript & my HTML about ten years into my career.
The HTML has at least lost its font tags and table based layouts but my overall reaction is to wish I could curl up and hide.
Someone has started the the best developers shit storm on Twitter. Again.
The best developers are lucky enough to do work that pushes them to grow.
One of my earliest jobs was at Rove Live. I thought I’d hit the big league but, thinking back, my code could have been better. I improved as a dev.
I developed corporate sites next, small shops and sole traders. My code was better and I thought I’d hit the big league. I improved as a dev.
I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last year working at Human Made and on WordPress core…