Free idea for you: A WordPress recipe blog theme that takes whatever recipe you publish and automatically replaces non-gluten-free ingredients with gluten-free ones. It’s called Glutenberg.

Client: We want to search a bunch of post meta values but we don’t want to actually invest in search

Me: Ok I guess I’ll save them to the post_content field as an HTML comment on save and strip them away whenever we’re going to show the post_content on the frontend.

Works well

This Far Side comic gets me… thefarside.com/2020/01/22/0

Except I don’t like torture or coffee…

So happy to announce my advanced Skillshare course about front-end performance! Watch it here:

#CSS4 is here, says @ppk. It’s not true, but it COULD be, and that’d be a really great thing. My take: danq.me/2020/01/23/css4/

Folks! I’m happy to share what we’ve been working on:

📣 github.com/microsoft/playwright

Playwright is like Puppeteer, but cross-browser. t.co/PiMjqwr7uF

HeimlichCon! Where every participant will walk away with $20 and solid knowledge of how to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

I hope I don’t choke. twitter.com/Seattlejo/status/121…

Holy shit, @Robb0wen’s new website is absolutely _stunning_

The attention to detail and motion is out of this world. Extreme website envy here.

robbowen.digital/

My most popular tweet yesterday was all of two words… twitter.com/kingkool68/status/12…

Our 10th birthday cake was very delicious!

a roast of the 50 state flags

Context for people who don’t know what leaving the house with children is like youtube.com/watch?v=uFQfylQ2Jgg

One of the joys of being a parent who works at home is you occasionally get to taste the sweet joy that is leaving the house in winter in under 2 minutes.

january is a dry month for a lot of freelancers and i’ve unfortunately had a couple of projects fall through. general reminder that i am a freelance fact-checker looking to work with authors, journalists and publishers on projects of any length! email me: lucyuprichard@gmail.com

you: his name is Rube Goldberg
me: that name rings a bell, which sets off a trap that undoes a buckle and releases a ball that rolls down a pipe and

I sort of hate to say it, because I know about all the hard work being done by many talented people, but I’m increasingly convinced that Gutenberg is the wrong solution for most enterprises using WordPress.

I tweeted this about a year ago, but I didn’t take my own advice, so here’s a reminder for you and me:

💡Change your macOS settings to always show scroll bars. This will help you spot overflow bugs, e.g. caused by width: 100vw. 🙂

matuzo.at/blog/css-pro-tip-for-m…

This might make a lot of older devs mad but I don’t think younger devs know who MacGuyver is twitter.com/bphogan/status/12185…

anyone who thinks that no-code tools will replace developers obviously wasn’t around for dreamweaver