As a senior developer, please remember where you came from. We all started out as junior developers. If you see your colleague struggling, offer to help or mentor them. And if you’re struggling as a junior developer, don’t be afraid to ask for help 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻

Strattic is hiring – come join us!

We have a number of open positions (and we’ll be adding more so stay tuned):

* Senior WordPress Engineer
* Full Stack/Backend Developer
* Senior QA Engineer
* Office & Operations Manager

More info on our Careers page.

strattic.com/careers/

Holy bananas! @lynnandtonic in for the kill with what must be the world’s coolest personal site.

lynnandtonic.com/

I hear dogs show up at some screensize too! (h’t @EliFitch)

alt: a site that reveals more an more heads as it shifts for larger viewports t.co/Kpq4bIJtFi

A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn’t make anything that anyone wanted to buy anymore. So they had a lot of strange ideas about how they’d make their comeback.

I’m making VR games, for a living, right now. That’s another tech that might turn out to be a white elephant nobody wants. The approach I’m taking, with my current game and the one I want to make after it, is *don’t make a game for VR unless that game could ONLY exist in VR*.

life as a opensource maintainer

As requested, here is a “little” case study of my portfolio.
I hope some of you will learn a thing or two.

medium.com/@bruno_simon/bruno-si… t.co/V0rCUWIKC8

@WordPressDC @nacin @anthonydpaul @kingkool68 @lelandf @taupecat @courtneydawn @bethsoderberg We’re hiring a FT web designer for our wordpress site @WeRecyclePaint. Can you help us spread the word? paintcare.org/about/#/jobs-rfps

github being down is the closest thing you get to a snow day at school as an adult

For all the end-of-year lists coming… before you give up and do:

<p>10. </p>
<p>9. </p>

Remember you can do:

<ol reversed>
<li>Highest number in list</li>
<li>Second highest</li>
<li>etc… t.co/4aeIBQkfsb

New blog post – Very Basic Form Styling

uglyduck.ca/basic-form-styling/

#forms #html #css

WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” is available for download! With over 150 new enhancements, Kirk is more intuitive than previous releases, focuses on accessibility, and includes a fresh new default theme. wordpress.org/news/2019/11/kirk/ t.co/UfQJObA12D

Seeing how many sites are using React but then failing time-to-interactive metrics is making my soul shrivel up.

They are throwing away SEO and user experience for… why?!…

#ChromeDevSummit t.co/U6vZEzYdw9

Since having kids I just haven’t had time to wallow in despair like I used to.

If I was a computer programmer I would simply tell the computer what to do

Interesting: #WordPress plugin from @methnen that manages data sets via a spreadsheet interface and presents data in chart form.

github.com/methnen/m-chart t.co/NwljEty7E8

Hot take: it’s time to retire the terms “HTML5” and “CSS3”. They are both current standards, so it should be simply HTML and CSS.

Wrote a blog post about truncating text at more than one line, with *just* CSS: chipcullen.com/truncating-type-a…

Adding social media icons to client websites.
The single biggest waste of everyones time.

The most valuable investment in user experience you can ever make is lowering latency. twitter.com/lukestein/status/119…