Software Architect, Accessibility & Sustainability evangelist, Human.
21 September 2019
Today I want to bring to your attention a hidden gen in WordPress. And I say “hidden” because in all my years in WordPress I’ve seen fery few developers use it - most likely because not everyone knows about it.
16 September 2019
A typography scape makes all our typography sizes relative to one another. These 2 quotes from the IBM Design Language site pretty much convey why a typography scale is useful:
16 September 2019
Links are a part of any page. They have been a part of the web from its conception, and are the main way we navigate on our everyday lives. They’re everywhere! So it stands to reason you should style them appropriately.
16 September 2019
By “Fluid Typography” in this article I’m referring to typography that scales depending on the screen size.
Traditionally sites have a fixed font-size, like for example 14px. The problem with that approach is that devices nowadays vary a lot. There are 4-inch smartphones, 40-inch Smart-TVs and everything in between.
15 September 2019
I love WordPress, but I strongly believe there’s a right tool for every job. This site is not a WordPress site. It’s built on Jekyll and hosted on Github Pages for free.
I write my posts using simple Markdown and it’s just fast and convenient.
However, what I always found annoying is the lack of a comment system. Until now I was using disqus for comments on this site, but I never really liked it. It was a last-resort solution. One I hated because Disqus loads a lot of assets and a lot of trackers.
14 September 2019
jQuery has been an easy way to get things done in JavaScript for years. It cuts down development time and allows us to prototype websites a lot faster. It’s been around for years, and as a WordPress developer I’ve been using it for a long, long time.