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The best developers

Someone has started the the best developers shit storm on Twitter. Again. The best developers are lucky enough to do work that pushes them to grow. One of my earliest jobs was at Rove Live. I thought I’d hit the big league but, thinking back, my code could have been better. I improved as a dev. I developed corporate […]

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The language of technology

The language of technology is easy. It’s evolving so new terms come in the lexicon gradually and we pick them up as they arrive. At least, that’s how I find it. I’ve grown up with tech – right back to the secondhand Apple IIe given to me as a kid and the World Wide Web […]

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Twenty Seventeen Supports

The new WordPress default theme includes a block of CSS to fix layout of the headers in browsers supporting the object-fit property. The CSS makes use of feature queries. It’s the first time a WordPress default theme has used @supports and I’m really pleased to see it. Despite wide browser support, feature queries are rarely seen in […]

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Debugging

I just spent an hour or so debugging some JavaScript. The code was simple, concatenate a string to form a selector: ‘#in-category-‘ . termId. Undefined. Always undefined. I started dumping all sorts of things in the console to debug. termId was defined. The code was passing through conditional statements correctly. I was just about to send […]

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Armed Guards

I’m not sure what bothers me the most. How quickly I got used to them, or their presence. The them I am referring to are the armed guards at the Nasdaq headquarters in Times Square. They’re armed with assault riffles. This freaked me out when I first passed the building. We have armed guards in Australia, […]

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