A recent analysis has shown how problematic jQuery usage can be for performance, especially in WordPress themes, which often have little JavaScript overall. If you are developing or maintaining a WordPress theme, consider switching to vanilla JS instead: make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/1…

Since today seems to be a day of major outages, I wrote up a playbook for tech managers on deal with them when they happen to you:

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200: here
300: uuhh
301: go away forever
302: go away for a while
304: you got this
400: wtf
403: you dont even go here
404: felt cute, deleted later
409: i will fight you
414: tldr
417: not mad just disappointed
418: im gonna get hacked lol
500: everyone over here is dead lmfao

October 4th is BGP awareness month

“Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Well it can, and here’s how. cfl.re/3l7WBQs

more like The Social Notwork

~42% of the web runs with @WordPress

Honestly, I love to see some outages that remind us what does “Democratize Publishing” means…

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Someone on the Facebook recovery effort has explained that a routine BGP update went wrong, which in turn locked out those with remote access who could reverse the mistake. Those who do have physical access do not have authorization on the servers. Catch-22.

Retweet if you believe Election Day should be a federal holiday.

“perhaps if more developers dared to go framework-free (when appropriate!) discussions around best practices would be more productive.” – @elisehein
#webdev #javascript
elisehe.in/2021/08/22/using-the-…

A website where all external links open in a new tab is like a TV that can only switch channels as picture-in-picture

You probably don’t need to use `height` very often in CSS

Cancelling performance.now() 2021 was the right decision, except financially.

I’m looking for donations and/or new jobs. Has QuirksMode.org ever helped you? Need a CSS coach? Or a technical documentation writer? Let me know.

RT = sweet

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Are you a WordPress developer that writes code, as part of developing client sites? Are you annoyed with the complications of modern WordPress development or anything else?

Would you be open to talking about that for thirty minutes or so?

DM me or email [email protected]

Product-led growth.

It’s just a fucking free trial. Calm it down.

Big shout out to the junior devs learning to code. You’re doing better than you think, just remember how far you’ve come! 😊

Fact: you could easily develop a multi-million-dollar web business right now, in 2021, using PHP, MySQL, custom CSS, and a small amount of Vanilla JS. Just like you could in 2006. Users don’t care about your tech stack – they care about the service your website performs.

Doing a spicy @syntaxfm where we talk about how many the modern web dev trends, frameworks and ideas are things PHP has had for years.

* Logic/Templating mix
* URL based routing
* request scope
* Server rendered
* large standard lib

Any more?

it only took seven and a half years, but you can now set the tab width on github.com. pretty sure this means the last semi-defensible reason for using spaces is gone, and we can all finally recognise the inherent superiority of tabs t.co/z73EUkCfw2

Developers: Instead of joining a big company, waiting for weeks to deploy code into production which breaks the site, you should join a startup and break shit every day. 🧠