One thing I learned at career day is how weird a career in web development is. Every other career has a college track. “How do I start making websites?” is such a hard question to answer in a sentence these days.

What I do: Hunch over a computer and type

What does the K9 person do: I FEED BAD GUYS TO MY DOG ALL DAY AND JUMP OUT OF PLANES! OOHHHH YEEEAAAHHHHH!

This morning I’m at a Baltimore High School talking about being a web developer for career day. Other people here include an entrepreneur, a lawyer, nurses, physical therapist, and even an explosive-detection K9 dog.

Pretty hard to compete with a K9 dog.

And when I have to write complicated YAML I need to do this…

(via reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/com…)

Seems to make sense that JSON prevailed as JavaScript has taken over so much software development. And JSON is native to JavaScript where XML is not.

See twobithistory.org/2017/09/21/the… twitter.com/brunoborges/status/1…

Slides from my talk kingkool68.com/circleci-aws/ twitter.com/thorntech/status/109…

Regarding static vs dynamic typed programming languages:

“The real world is dynamic. It is full of mistakes. Dynamic typing recognizes this, much more so than static typing. It adapts to this much better than the academic purity of static typing.”

smashcompany.com/technology/why-…

It’s so weird when your MacBook Pro trackpad stops working and you realize its not something that physically clicks. Just an aluminum square there with software that tricks you into thinking it is a mechanical piece.

You probably don’t need a single-page application.

journal.plausible.io/you-probabl…

This is like the <font> tag but for grids. twitter.com/rsms/status/10969265…

I have a degree from a school that doesn’t exist anymore. #forProfitCollege twitter.com/lindydonna/status/10…

I got my talk in. All about templating in WordPress. I hope I get picked so I can c̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶o̶p̶i̶e̶ ̶p̶i̶e̶s̶ give a great presentation! twitter.com/WordCampLanc/status/…

Fullstack Flash Developer

🌹 Roses are red
🔀 Retweets are gold
⏳ I’ve been on this website so long
🧙‍♂️ I’m officially old

This screenshot is the source of jQuery UI’s sortable library piwigo.org/dev/browser/trunk/the… twitter.com/mpiccorossi/status/1…

Oh here it is! carlalexander.ca/designing-class…

Also I’m trying to find your article where you mention making a separate PHP template file for rendering markup to separate concerns.

WordPress is looking to ditch an icon font for it’s Dashicons 👏 How should Dashicons work going forward? make.wordpress.org/design/2019/0…

I’m a fan of inlining SVGs gist.github.com/kingkool68/6d729…

Casting music to my TV via YouTube Music is actually pretty nice. I wish Google wasn’t littered with services that duplicate functionality. Can’t import my Liked tracks from music.google.com ? Come on, man!

Displaying Japanese and English text on the web

nobadmemories.com/blog/2017/04/b…