A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
wp-cli is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs, create posts and much more. Once installed, you can run commands such as: wp plugin install hello-dolly which will output: Installing Hello Dolly (1.5) Downloading install package from http://downloads.WordPress.org/plugin/hello-dolly.1.5.zip … Unpacking the package … Installing the …
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Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality to web and mobile apps It’s as easy as subscribing to a channel: var channel = pusher.subscribe(‘my-channel’); channel.bind(‘my-event’, function(data) { alert(‘Received my-event with message: ‘ + data.message); }); and pushing messages to it: pusher.trigger(‘my-channel’, ‘my-event’, { "message": "hello world" } ); …
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A lot of editors are scriptable in Python. And Firefox has remote capabilities. So we are building a python library that can be used by editors to interact with Firefox (desktop or mobile). We could for example add JS breakpoints from Vim, or edit the code of the current page from SublimeText. Note that the …
Starting + Sustaining will help you plan, launch, and run your own web application with less pain and fewer mistakes. By Garret Dimon of Sifter. If you like the aforementioned Bootstrapping a Software Product presentation you’ll love the book. Starting + Sustaining: A book and spreadsheet to help you launch and maintain a web application …
This is really cool: take the whole oevre of one author and build a sentence using Markov Chains based on two starting words. The picture above is a visualisation of the choices made. The whole forest had been anesthetised, her temples wired, her senses stimulated, her eyes were not on Eva, not on Eva, not …
For those who often enquire about my responsive grid “solution” — it’s about 10 lines of code. Not a problem that keeps me up at night Tried a grid-based approach in a site that’s about to launch any time soon but found it conflicting with the mobile first idea: I’d be undoing the grid’s CSS …
A couple of weeks ago, I was using the latest version of the Rdio app and realized that I had no idea how to put a song into a playlist. After hopelessly tapping around, I got a bit annoyed and posted a tweet asking if anyone had figured it out. But then I thought about …