Fix Your Boring Slides – Waxy.org
Sage wisdom from Andy Baio. Every last WordCamp speaker needs to read this. Stat.
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Sexy Beasts
While I was in Austin last week, work graced me with a new set of business cards. And they’ve got my new(ish) title! Don’t they look fucking handsome?
I’m sure that everyone I hand them to will silently curse me for their non-standard size, but maybe that’ll become less of an issue once they notice the lightly embossed WP Engine logo.
Or maybe not. But hey, whatever. New cards!
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Should I Use A Carousel?
Should I Use A Carousel?SPOILER ALERT: The answer is always going to be “no”.
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Dashboard makeover removes “Incoming Links” widget
Dashboard Makeover Removes Incoming Links Widget – WP Tavern
Much like Jeffro, I’ve found Incoming Links to be practically useless for the past few years, so I’m glad they’re finally killing the widget.
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Preconnect, prefetch, prerender…
Preconnect, prefetch, prerender… – Google SlidesPretty great presentation from Google’s Ilya Grigorik on how you can make pages display even faster for your visitors.
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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 more
A 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.
