Category: Web
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Switched to a VPS, again
During the years, my blog hosting has gone back and forth between a self-configured VPS and shared hosting. Thanks to a special WordCamp Europe 2015 offer, for the past couple of years I’ve been on Siteground shared hosting, which has worked fine. I certainly have no complaints: the site has been fast, setup was easy…
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Rachel Andrew’s List on Developments in CSS
If you’re at all interested in new CSS features and their implementations in browsers, bookmark this: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/05/01/whats-happening-in-css/
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CSS Grid Layout and Accessibility
CSS Grid is the future. However just like with many other layout techniques, it’s very easy to go crazy with it and cause an accessibility nightmare. There’s an excellent article on MDN on potential pitfalls: If at any time in the design process you find yourself using grid to relocate the position of an element,…
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10up’s NodeifyWP Marries WordPress and Node.js
Looks like 10up just released something I was waiting for but didn’t know it: NodeifyWP. With NodeifyWP, we can serve a true isomorphic application from within PHP: we get the benefits of WordPress and the benefits of isomorphic Node.js technologies. No separate Node.js/Express server is necessary. Sounds crazy. Can’t wait to try it out! Read…
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Jeremy Keith nails it again, on progressive web apps
There seems to be an inherent assumption that native is intrinsically “better” than the web, and that the only way that the web can “win” is to match native apps note for note. But that misses out on all the things that only the web can do—instant distribution, low-friction sharing, and the ability to link…