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"Discover new ways to analyze how your page loads in this comprehensive reference of Chrome DevTools network analysis features. By default, DevTools records all network requests in the Network panel, so long as DevTools is open."

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June 6, 2018

Unfinished network requests

"You can use the Is:running Advanced Network Filter to see unfinished network requests (e.g. running requests). Some other filters you can try are: status-code, method, domain and more! Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3."

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June 6, 2018

Local JSON

"Local JSON is a new feature added in version 5 which saves field group and field settings to files within your theme. The idea is similar to caching and both dramatically speeds up ACF and allows for version control over your field settings!"

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June 5, 2018

YouTube Player API Reference for iframe Embeds

"The IFrame player API lets you embed a YouTube video player on your website and control the player using JavaScript."

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June 5, 2018

How to Disable Custom Colors in the Gutenberg Block Editor

"Gutenberg, the soon-to-be block editor for WordPress, has a nifty color palette used throughout many blocks which allow users to set custom colors. While this sort of empowerment is quite useful, I can think of a few reasons why folks would want to limit the styling capabilities of Gutenberg."

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June 4, 2018

Simple Made Easy

"Summary Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path."

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June 4, 2018

You Shouldn't Host Wordpress on AWS (Except when you should)

"A number of past client’s ask me to automate and configure WordPress on AWS and even more potential client’s ask the same. After architecting a number of AWS WordPress solutions, I feel pretty comfortable going over why I advise against their union in the vast majority of cases."

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June 2, 2018

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June 1, 2018

Simplify Web Worker code with Comlink

"It’s not a fantasy, we can make it a reality with Comlink. Comlink is a small (1.6k) RPC library for workers. This guy made it. His name is Surma, he's a Google colleague of mine. Comlink provides an RPC layer to call methods from a worker on the main thread."

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May 30, 2018

Positions fixed doesn't work when using -webkit-transform

"I am using -webkit-transform (and -moz-transform / -o-transform) to rotate a div. Also have position fixed added so the div scrols down with the user. In Firefox it works fine, but in webkit based browsers it's broken."

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May 30, 2018

Fixed-position element uses transformed ancestor as the container

"Note: Color blocks (like █ or █) mean that a user may not be available. Tooltip shows the reason."

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May 30, 2018

Introduction

"The Service Worker Cookbook is a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web sites. Tip: Open your Developer Tools console to view fetch events and informative messages about what each recipe's service worker is doing!"

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May 29, 2018

The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years

"Thirteen thousand years ago, as the last ice age ended, entire stretches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef perished. Rising sea levels blanketed the world’s largest collection of corals with sediment coming off the newly inundated land, blocking the sunlight corals need to grow."

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May 27, 2018

I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned.

"Summary: Turning a web app into a Progressive Web App (PWA) and submitting it to 3 app stores requires about a month of work, a few hundred dollars, and lots of red tape. The process was both painful and enlightening. Here’s what I learned."

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May 26, 2018

21 - How to run a security audit with npm audit

"A security audit is an assessment of package dependencies for security vulnerabilities."

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May 25, 2018

My Struggle with Testing Code

"Brad Frost recently shared a post called “My Struggle to Learn React”. Inspired by that, I thought I’d share something I’m bad at: Testing Code. This has been on my “List of Shame” for a long time."

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May 22, 2018

Tips for Getting Started Developing for Web Accessibility

"This page introduces some basic considerations to help you get started developing web content that is more accessible to people with disabilities. These tips are good practice to help you meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements."

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May 16, 2018

What Are The Best WordPress Multi-Purpose Themes In 2018 ?

"Looking for some WordPress Themes for Business/Agency/Corporate Websites. That helps in building homepage mockups fairly quickly. Why avoid Avada and Divi? I’ve heard that packaged in page builders are bad, but I don’t understand why."

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May 16, 2018

iOS 8 removed "minimal-ui" viewport property, are there other "soft fullscreen" solutions?

"We are currently building a responsive web app (news reader) that allow users to swipe between tabbed content, as well as scroll vertically inside each tabbed content."

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