Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Wikimedia CommonsRichard Stallman, software freedom fighterThe apps and games you use every day don’t exist in a vacuum — someone, somewhere, wrote the code. That also goes for the underlying platforms and hardware that those apps run on. And the web. And the entire Internet itself. Even the programming languages that people use to build…
Entry Text The conventional wisdom is that Internet users have the attention span of a goldfish — the shorter, the better. That’s what makes the runaway success of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “What Is Code?” — a 38,000-word opus on software engineering that took up an entire double issue of the magazine — all the more surprising….
photo credit: Luis Llerena BuiltWith, the popular service dedicated to monitoring internet technology trends and providing platform usage analytics, released its bi-annual internet coverage report for CMS usage from January – July 2015. The report shows that WordPress, which accounts for 48% of total CMS’s tracked, added 1.1 million domains since January. WordPress has been…
Safari Content Blocker, Before and After Wednesday, 8 July 2015 Dean Murphy wrote an iOS 9 Safari Content Blocker, and tested it against iMore: With no content blocked, there are 38 third party scripts (scripts not hosted on the host domain) running when the homepage is opened, which takes a total of 11 seconds. Some of…
Oh lord, Seamless. Do you want me to starve to death? That’s what a lot of people have been asking themselves since the popular food delivery service rolled out a dramatic redesign a few weeks ago. Nothing is where it was before. The new interface’s huge elements feels like a prison of clutter compared to…
Facebook has recently presented a new way to compose applications, an application architecture they named Flux. They reported that as modern web applications grow in complexity, this model eases the maintenance and the cognitive load required to develop them. I jumped in excitement (it’s true!) as I immediately saw the beauty of the model. But…
React.js is a fantastic library. Sometimes it seems like the best thing since sliced Python. React is only one part of a front-end application stack, however. It doesn’t have much to offer when it comes to managing data and state. Facebook, the makers of React, have offered some guidance there in the form of Flux….
Yea, this is the one terrible thing I hate about the internet in general, when it comes to learning. It breeds this kind of arrogance where, if choosing to speak, one must know exactly what they are doing, otherwise they must commit seppuku. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve deleted comments because of…
photo credit: #2 Pencils – (license) Anti-customizer vitriol reached its zenith last week when the Menu Customizer plugin was officially approved for merge into WordPress 4.3. Opponents of the feature voiced concerns about the readiness of the UI for all screen sizes, particularly for the desktop where many find the experience of managing menus to…
This weekend at WordCamp Denver, Kevin Conboy announced that Automattic’s long-awaited O2 project is now publicly available on GitHub. In a recent interview with WP Tavern, Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the o2 development team is shifting its focus to WordPress.com’s core products but that the o2 code would be public for anyone to use. o2…