Category: Web Development
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How to Keep Your New WordPress Site Running Smoothly
So you just launched a WordPress site for your business, everything is up and running. Pages load quickly, SEO is better than ever, you paid your development team. Now you’re all set for the next few year, right? In an ideal world, this would be true. Unfortunately, the Internet is a dangerous place and software…
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The Problem with NPM
Whenever you run `npm install` it generates a local, project specific /node_modules/ directory with literally 10s of thousands of files and folders. Why?! WHY?! I understand that javascript is a simple scripting language, missing many features that are baked in to more traditional languages like PHP and friends. I understand that many node modules are…
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TIL Netflix Packets Never Leave Town!
I got a message from my ISP’s (Shaw) Bandwidth Team today. I wasn’t able to return the call, but I suspect they were calling to scold me about my bandwidth usage. Some History Bandwidth cap policies were a knee jerk reaction from ISPs ill-prepared for the era file-sharing on Napster and later voracious bittorrent usage. An era when…
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Do we need an IMDB for websites?
Do we need an IMDB for websites? Over the course of my 15 year career as a web developer, I’ve had a hand in dozens (maybe hundreds) of websites. A handful of the top sites I’ve worked on are seen by millions of people; and much like the clapper loader, child wrangler or caterer on…
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Dear WordPress Get Your 💩 Together
Dear WordPress.org, Get your shit together! It is 2016, there is no excuse for allowing any plugins with insecure code to make their way into the plugin directory. Full stop. The story about Custom Content Type Management stealing admin credentials and other shenanigans, is utterly pathetic. I’d bet this incident is just the tip of the…