So you want to be one of Trump’s lawyers?

Do you have a suit? Yes.
Fancy looking glasses? Sure thing.
Are you white? You betcha!

You’re hired!

10 hours left to apply to speak at WordCamp DC! And you wouldn’t be the only one to apply at the end – we’ve gotten a bunch of submissions over the last 24 hours! 2020.dc.wordcamp.org/2019/12/17/…

Good interfaces do work so you don’t have to

“Surely the user would need some help from the Block navigation to navigate the Navigation block. Yes, I’m serious”

Coming up with clear, understandable words for a UI is hard.

markuraine.com/tools-templates-a…

I’m kingkool68 on @byte_app

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: [email protected]