The skinny: We fixed missed-schedule posts by reducing the site’s code landscape, examining the hosting environment, and implemented a three-prong, bulletproof approach to ensuring posts publish on time. In the process we also trimmed megabytes of render-blocking CSS and JavaScript, changing the site’s performance measured by Google Lighthouse from 17 to 75. So, that’s nice….
So, you’re doing some WordPress AJAX. And maybe you’re serializing your form data into an array of objects. JSON.stringify() and fire that into wp-ajax.php. And maybe you console.log‘d it to verify it’s an array of objects… Cool. Maybe it looked like this (i.e. an array of objects): But then in functions.php, you json_decode() your lovely…
Did ya see Flickr’s new UI? Some users rejoice, some blogs tout its updated design merits, and designer/developers like me run to see what they’ve done to bring it up to date. At first glance… It’s pretty. It’s full-screen, image-centric, responsive, and their catchy homepage incorporates some nice parallax movement (since I can never remember…
Ok, SEO is not completely dead. But it’s growing old, and it’s increasingly covered in cobwebs. Troves of snake-oil salesmen vying to sell you an SEO package would like you to believe otherwise. Here’s my take: I have sat in countless meetings with clients – prospective and current, large and small – to discuss Search…
Yeah, just kidding. It’s only the iPhone 4, alas. But here’s my relatively informal review, 24 hours in. While standing in the “reservations” line yesterday morning for 3.5 hours, seeing many happy customers coming out sporting the new fancy gizmo, I looked at it and wondered if I was going to have buyer’s remorse. I…