The Filament Group continues to do great work: Font Loading Revisited with Font Events
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One click indieweb for WordPress
I was discussing one click indieweb for WordPress with David Shanske on the IRC channel. The aim is to make it as easy as possible for a WordPress user – not a developer – to implement an indieweb site.
I’ve decided to put it up as a brain dump.
There are two aspects to consider: features and data attributes. (more…)
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AIDS.GOV on RWD
On this week’s Responsive Web Design podcast, aids.gov allude to the public health benefits of going responsive.
Listen.
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Media queries and calc
calcisn’t a new feature, but at the time of writing MDN describes it as experimental:this technology’s specification has not stabilized, check the compatibility table for the proper prefixes to use in various browsers. Also note that the syntax and behavior of an experimental technology is subject to change in future versions of browsers
– MDN
According to caniuse.com, it’s a little safer than MDN suggests.
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Web Directions Respond 15
I’m speaking at Web Directions Respond in March, come along.
It features travelling guests Scott Jehl, Yesenia Perez-Cruz and Andrew Clarke, along with a bunch of local designers and developers.
I attended the first Respond in 2014 and it changed the way I work.
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What do mobile users want to do?
A new site asking what do mobile users want to do?
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Git submodule update errors
I run this site using a WordPress Skeleton setup. WordPress runs in a sub-directory as a submodule.
When a WordPress update is released, as it was this-morning, I update my local repo and push it to the site. My understanding is, when I log onto the server I should be able to run the following to update:
git pull git submodule updateEvery time, I get the error
fatal: reference is not a tree:followed by the commit’s hash and have to mess around on the server to get the update working.Answers on Stack Overflow aren’t helping, so any tips? Treat me like an idiot.
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Quoting FU
As Malcolm Turnbull should be well aware, FU is a lying sociopath. It’s a bad look to adopt his catch-cry.
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Tech Freedom vs Feminism
The organisations who are doing internet freedom work are also the ones who are idolising and absolving the various hateful actions of men. It all adds up to build a pattern of anti-women rhetoric and it’s certainly one that makes me feel absolutely unwelcome.