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Are Humans Bad Drivers?
in CultureWhenever self-driving are discussed, almost everyone — the media, tech podcasts, twitter, your uncle — universally asserts that “humans are bad drivers,” usually adding something to the affect of “we need machines to save us from ourselves.” As a contrarian through and through, foregone conclusions like that immediately trigger my gag reflex. I don’t think […] Continue Reading
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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 […] Continue Reading
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Hei Opera!
Opera was the first web browser I truly loved. In the early days of the modern web, when we had 4 or 5 real legit competitors in the browser space, Opera was truly innovative. In the year 2000 it was the first browser to support tabbed browsing (2 years before Mozilla, 3 years before Safari […] Continue Reading
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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 […] Continue Reading
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The Role of Developers in the WordPress Community
in WordPressEarlier this week, influential British designer Sazzy wrote a blog post entitled The Elephant In The Room about the depressing state of freelance web design. While not directly related, her post got me thinking about the current plight of the back-end developer inside the WordPress universe. Over the past 3 or 4 years I’ve focused […] Continue Reading