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Illustration: Jim Cooke We are, right now, in the midst of a digital media upheaval. What was previously conventional wisdom—that a media company with hopes of turning a profit needs, above all, to achieve scale—is being proven false. The new conventional wisdom is that video will be digital media’s savior, but it is only a…
/ Photography / Programming / Science / Travel / Follow @AndrewCarterUK 95% of PHPixie Installs on Packagist are Fraudulent May 9, 2016 95% of PHPixie Installs on Packagist are Fraudulent Background To be transparent, I have already had a run-in with Roman Tsjupa (the author of PHPixie, aka dracony) after I exposed his use…
At The Washington Post, we constantly strive to provide our readers with the best possible site and reading experience. One way we do this is through PageBuilder, an in-house product for our news editors to easily tweak, enhance or add content live on the site. We can take this a step further and add the ability for…
A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code. By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers. Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts…
Live Video Upload with the Graph API The Live API allows you to create stories on Facebook using live video content from a variety of sources. This allows you to go beyond mobile device cameras and bring in video from professional cameras, multi-camera setups and programmatic sources such as games or screencasts. If you would…
We know that being a developer is hard, and building on a platform is not a decision to be made lightly. Many platforms have burned developers and we frequently see that risk highlighted. This is our response. An ecosystem, a real platform, is shared. We are growing fast, but no one company alone could grow…
Looking for job security in the knowledge economy? Just learn to code. At least, that’s what we’ve been telling young professionals and mid-career workers alike who want to hack it in the modern workforce—in fact, it’s advice I’ve given myself. And judging by the proliferation of coding schools and bootcamps we’ve seen over the…
The reasoning behind the new open source WordPress.com interface, named “Calypso,” is simple. The existing PHP codebase served the company and the WordPress community well since the company’s founding in 2003, and made a lot of sense three, five, and certainly ten years ago. But in the super-fast, mobile-first era, it had become a hindrance….
For those of us who care about democracy and the importance of a healthy political discourse, a story published by Bloomberg this week, “How to Hack an Election,” was incredibly distressing. In it, Colombian hacker Andrés Sepúlveda comes clean about eight years he spent allegedly using dark, and often illegal, computer skills to help conservative…
How to avoid common mistakes when publishing Accelerated Mobile Pages As Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are building up we’ve noticed the same mistakes happening over and over again when someone starts publishing AMPs. Here is a list of steps you should take to avoid these when publishing AMPs and to ensure a great AMP experience…