Hi
Before diving into what I’ve read this week, here’s a lovely quote I just read:
Serve markup. Not too much. Progressively Enhanced.
Alex Russell @slightlyoff@toot.cafe
It’s an adaptation of this famous quote by Michael Pollan about food, and I love it about as much as the original.
Frontend Development
🤬 A Rant about Front-end Development
Frank M Taylor rants about front-end development, and I agree with a lot of what he says. Especially everything about how wrong an idea it is to be using React (or any framework) for anything else than an interactive experience and that you should always be thinking about content and your users first, HTML first.
Frank M Taylor – A Rant about Front-end Development
WordPress
🔌 What to do after your plugin is in the WordPress.org repository?
David Artiss – Customer Success Support Lead at WordPress VIP – wrote this article on what you should do, when you have your plugin in the WP.org repository.
Artiss – Added a plugin to the WordPress directory? Here’s what to do next
⚡️ WP Mega Menu with Blocks
My friend Silvan wrote a tutorial on how he created a Mega Menu using Blocks for his latest WP project for the Kofi Annan Foundation. Instead of the native Navigation Block, he used the Accordion Block from GenerateBlocks Pro, which I found an interesting choice.
Silvan Hagen – WordPress Mega Menu with Blocks
🕵️♂️ UTM Tracking links in a WP Plugin
I wrote a little post to document how we restructured and set up the UTM tracking parameters for our own plugin. Even though related to a WordPress plugin in this case, it’s relevant basically for any distributed software where you have links to your website and want to know what works and what doesn’t.
picu Dev Log – UTM Tracking Parameters
Other
🌕 “The moon has moved”
Suddenly calling your very own clean energy goals “moonshot” targets feels a lot like we’re only one press release away from completely admitting defeat. Also, “The moon has moved” is such a nice way to say “we don’t care”.
Guardian – Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
Enjoy your weekend!