Reading List #91

Hi

This week I took a day off to visit a circus lesson of my son and then spent the afternoon looking at dinosaur bones, which was awesome!

Other than that, I didn’t feel all too productive, but we made some good progress on our upcoming e-commerce feature in picu and I managed to finally get some long, long overdue bookkeeping stuff sorted.


Design / Development

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Pride Versioning

As someone who always (always!) struggles to remember the details of Semantic Versioning, this Pride Versioning seems so much more intuitive and closer to reality.

Pride Versioning

๐Ÿซฅ :empty pseudo-class

Chris Ferdinandi writes about the :empty pseudo-class in CSS and how it can replace stuff you would often use JS for.

Go Make Things โ€“ The :empty pseudo-class in CSS

๐Ÿ”„ CSS Loaders

A huge collection of loading indicators written in pure CSS to copy/paste and learn from.

CSS Loaders


WordPress

๐Ÿค” Make pages searchable by IDs in the backend

The default search in WP doesn’t allow to search for IDs. This snippet adds this capability to the search. Nice.

WordPress Menus Search by Post-ID

๐Ÿฆฃ Mastodon to be owned by a non-profit organization

Eugen Rochko and the Mastodon team announced that they will transfer Mastodon to it’s own non-profit organization. He also took the opportunity to take a shot at “other Open Source projects” that had “similar ego- and trademark-related issues”, without naming any projects directly.

Mastodon โ€“ The people should own the town square


Other / Random

๐Ÿฏ Honey Influencer Scam

We all learned by now that if you’re not paying for a product, you are the product, right? But this huge scam that the Honey Browser extension had going for a while was on another level.

If you โ€“ like me โ€“ never heard of the Honey browser extension before, good for you. But if you have, and especially if you installed it: Watch this video and then remove it from all your browsers.

YouTube MegaLag โ€“ Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam


Cheers to you all ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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