Pretty great presentation from Google’s Ilya Grigorik on how you can make pages display even faster for your visitors.
Author: Jason Cosper
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Preconnect, prefetch, prerender…
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Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5
Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5 - firt.devLearn about Mobile and Web Development with Maximiliano Firtman’s articles, notes and learning experiences. Progressive Web Apps, Web Performance, Android Apps, iOS Apps and moreA comprehensive list of all the annoying, buggy shit that came along with iOS 7’s “upgrade” to Safari.
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Plugin Pug
Plugin Pug | Smile! You’re at the best WordPress.com site everLet’s get you going writing plugins for WordPress. Plugins can be used to Add a widget to the front-side, like in a sidebar or footer Add or change post content, like adding links at the bottom of a post or hotlinking certain words Create custom post types, like for events Add meta boxes to the…Finally, a well written set of plugin tutorials for beginner and intermediate developers.
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Ridiculously smart password meter coming to WordPress 3.7
Ridiculously Smart Password Meter Coming to WordPress 3.7 – WP TavernI’m totally fucking thrilled that 3.7 is using Dropbox’s zxcvbn library to fix the password strength meter.
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Front-end Editor
Front-end Editor – Make WordPress DesignThis reminds me a bit of Medium’s editor. Mainly the darkness. But I still really like it. I honestly hope they get enough work done on the plugin to ship it in 3.8.
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Please stop using “doing_it_wrong”
Please Stop Using “doing it wrong” – Tom McFarlin | Tom McFarlinOne of the more common memes on the Internet is programmers telling other programmers that they are “doing it wrong.” I’d love it if this were to stop.A plea for developers to quit being condescending assholes, by Tom McFarlin.
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Voce releases Afterburner playbooks
GitHub – voceconnect/afterburner-ansible: Ansible Playbooks to complement afterburner.voceplatforms.com…Ansible Playbooks to complement afterburner.voceplatforms.com… – GitHub – voceconnect/afterburner-ansible: Ansible Playbooks to complement afterburner.voceplatforms.com…Voce Platform’s Ansible playbooks for their scalable WordPress configuration, Afterburner. Even if you don’t use the playbooks, there’s tons of great config tweaks that can be found by digging through the code.
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register_post_type() cheat sheet
register_post_type() cheat sheetA starter file for creating new WordPress post types with the register_post_type() function.Ridiculously handy custom post type cheat sheet from Justin Tadlock.
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Garbage collecting transients on database upgrades
Changeset 25416 – WordPress TracThis is going to possibly piss off a lot of half-assed plugin developers. But it’ll also be a big fucking deal if it makes it into 3.7 unscathed.
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WordPress as an App Platform?
WordPress as an App Platform? | Jake GoldmanGreat article from 10up’s Jake Goldman on the future of WordPress as an application platform.