While I was on the train ride home today I was writing an article on my local copy of WordPress when I thought to myself “This is actually slower than working with the patchy wifi and GPRS”. The best thing about running your site locally is that you do not require an internet connection to… Continue reading My local WordPress MAMP site slow
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Accessibility Dashboard – Pa11y Dashboard
Today I came across a wonderful article by Una Kravitz, a UI Engineer over at Digital Ocean, about how to set up an accessibility dashboard for your site/s in just 15 minutes. Usually these kinds of articles say “it’s easy! All you need to do is after you set up NPM, Gulp, Grunt, Node, Ruby,… Continue reading Accessibility Dashboard – Pa11y Dashboard
Min | A smarter faster web browser
This is a pretty fast little browser that I can see myself using more and more. It’s light weight and at the moment not the hog that some of the others are (looking at you Chrome on Mac). It doesn’t have anything in the way of dev tools so it’s not practical for work, but… Continue reading Min | A smarter faster web browser
GoldenLayout
Golden layout is a multi-window javascript layout manager for webapps Visit Link
XKCD Garden
This is a strange XKCD, but also a little bit of fun. The page loads blank with the ability to add up to three grow lights. You can position them on the screen, change the angle of the light, change the light focus (wider and lighter or narrow and brighter). Apparently you can also change… Continue reading XKCD Garden
tmux
A program that sits on top of iTerm. It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more. Visit Link
Analytics Academy
Subscribe to get your free email course! You’ll learn the basics of how to think about analytics and level-up to implementation strategies for what data to collect—each as one lesson per week. Visit Link
OneSignal
High volume, cross platform push notification delivery. Visit Link
wp-admin redirect loop on https
Running your website on HTTPS has many benefits which doesn’t stop at being safer, it also allows you to run on http2/SPDY and offers things like Service Workers. I use CloudFlare and their Flexible SSL to secure most of my sites. It’s easy to set up and it costs nothing which is just amazing as… Continue reading wp-admin redirect loop on https
Plain White vs Full Bleed Images
I’ve recently added HotJar to the Back Pocket Notebooks site to see how people are using the site. I was interested in where people were dropping off, how they were getting from the home page to the product page and where they might be getting distracted. The more I looked into it the more I… Continue reading Plain White vs Full Bleed Images