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Exercising Care and Giving Users Control

Aaron Gustafson makes a great point about the responsibility that developers have to respect the users of their applications.

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Posted on August 7, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in Ethics and Values, JavaScript, User Experience | Tagged Aaron Gustafson, PWA, React Round Up | Leave a comment

Fully Trusted Self-Signed SSL Certificates for Local Development

Getting fully-trusted self-signed certificates in Firefox requires setting up a self-signed certificate authority.

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Posted on June 13, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in Miscellaneous | Leave a comment

Programmatically Adding Comment Metadata from JavaScript

Creating comment meta from a client side script isn't as easy as it is on the PHP side, but it can be done.

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Posted on June 1, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in JavaScript, WordPress | Tagged Comment Meta | Leave a comment

Prevent Manual Admin Notices From Being Moved to the Top

WordPress normally moves all elements with a notice style to the top of the page, but that can be prevented with the inline CSS class.

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Posted on June 1, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in WordPress | Tagged Admin Notices | Leave a comment

Death to Bullshit

Death to Bullshit.com has been around for a long, long time (in Internet years), but it’s still just as relevant as ever.

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in Design, Ethics and Values | Leave a comment

Replacing Exclusionary Terms in Tech Jargon

There are a lot of cringe-worthy terms in technical jargon, but in addition to being exclusionary, they're also often bad metaphors, and more descriptive alternatives exist.

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Posted on May 10, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in Ethics and Values, MySQL, Version Control | Tagged Erin McKean, Git, inclusion, master | Leave a comment

Gutenberg and WordCamp.org’s Shortcodes

Corey McKrill presented a case study at WordCamp Portland about the process we went through to build Gutenberg blocks for WordCamp.org.

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Posted on May 6, 2019 by Ian Dunn. Posted in JavaScript, WordPress | Tagged Corey McKrill, Gutenberg | Leave a comment

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