Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A version of this story first appeared in the Oct. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The central media currency is not audience, but trustworthy measurement. The television business was built on wide adoption of such a single standard. Nielsen’s sampling method determined the size…
WP REST API: Merge Proposal Hello everyone! This is the post you’ve all been waiting for. We on the REST API team (myself, @rachelbaker, @joehoyle, @danielbachhuber, and newest member and core committer @pento) would like to propose merging the REST API into WordPress core. We’ve been working a while on this, and think it’s now…
So let’s talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we’re really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage. iOS…
On several occasions at WordCamps or other similar tech events, I’ve been asked (almost always in a thoughtful manner) what my experience has been like as a female web developer in this largely male-dominated field. My answer hasn’t changed much over the 6 or so years I’ve been doing this professionally, aside from the addition of…
What’s This? Associations Now Brand Connection provides opportunities for advertisers to connect with the Associations Now audience. All content is paid for by the advertiser. The Associations Now editorial staff is not involved in creating this content. As websites become increasingly complex and ad-laden, users are starting to rebel against overly “heavy” websites that…
3 Month Internet Reading Stats Internet reading goals vs accomplished stats for the last three months: Stories Read / Stories Queued To Read August: 438 / 536 ( 81% completed ) July: 493 / 544 ( 90% completed ) June: 400 / 546 ( 73% completed ) Notes: not all stories read made it to…
Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for programmers, recently came out with its 2015 developer survey. With responses from more than 26,000 people in 157 countries, Stack Overflow was able to pinpoint some interesting trends in tech and how they vary regionally, painting a picture of the life of a programmer today around the world. US…
Delays, demands for refunds and online feuds are breaking out Chris Roberts needs a vacation. ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## Since Star Citizen was presented on Kickstarter back in 2012, he says he’s been working non-stop. In the last few weeks, Roberts has made a Gamescom appearance, visited his studios around the world, talked to various…
Legions of programmers now stream their work on Livecoding.tv, a site that turns their lonely labor into something more like a party. The camera does not love computer programming. OK, it’s worse: The camera runs screaming in horror from anything resembling programming. Writing code might be the single least cinematic pursuit humankind has yet devised….
WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features. WordPress 4.3 has been four months in the making and is shipping right on time. The release was lead by Konstantin Obenland. 247 people contributed…