From the FSF site: CiviCRM was this year’s winner of the Award for Project of Social Benefit, given to a group or association that has carried the free software principles and have applied them to other areas. CiviCRM is a free program that nonprofit organizations around the world used to manage their mailings and contact databases, including… Continue reading CiviCRM received Award for Project of Social Benefit from Free Software Foundation
Block Test for Themes
At our agency, Pauli Systems, we work with many websites that are not yet Gutenberg-ready. Slowly clients are moving towards the block editor. To find out how many changes on their themes would be necessary we use this Gist from GitHub for a first review. Updated the Gist on June 9th, 2021 Added a Cover… Continue reading Block Test for Themes
Adventure: Second Brain with RoamResearch
New Year’s Eve morning, I decided to start the new year with Roam. A few days ago, I noticed, I passed the threshold of 5,000 notes in Evernote. The last two years, my daily-not-so-daily Logs are missing a piece of organization, that I might find in Roam. That’s how Travis Daily started his post on… Continue reading Adventure: Second Brain with RoamResearch
Tracking PHP 8 issues around WordPress
This site runs on PHP 8rc1, WordPress trunk and Gutenberg from Master. On this page, I track the issues, I had seen on this site. If you want a big picture kind of report, I recommend reading Yoast’s The 2020 WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report. WordPress Core team also posted a Call for testing:… Continue reading Tracking PHP 8 issues around WordPress
20 WordPress Plugins, drafted at the Mega Meetup
Last month, I participate in the Mega Meetup Plugin Draft. David Bisset invented the format. He invited five people on a panel, Elisabeth Reiner, David Yarde, Topher DeRosia, Brad Morrison and yours truly. Then we did 4 rounds of first picks on WordPress plugins. There were quite a few plugins I didn’t know about and… Continue reading 20 WordPress Plugins, drafted at the Mega Meetup
A #nocode Contributor Journey on the WordPress Gutenberg GitHub Repo
I have been a contributor to WordPress since 2014. I serve as Deputy on the Community team, and as team rep for Bock-Editor Enduser documentation team. I am also a roockie contributor on the Gutenberg GitHub repo for WordPress’ block editor. Earlier this week, Mark Uriane asked me to review a PR, that fixed an… Continue reading A #nocode Contributor Journey on the WordPress Gutenberg GitHub Repo
Difference between npm and npx
The npm stands for Node Package Manager and itis the default package manager for Node.js. It is written entirely in JavaScript, developed by Isaac Z. Schlueter, it was initially released on January 12, 2010. The npm manages all the packages and modules for node.js and consists of command–line client npm. It gets installed into the system with the installation of node.js. The required packages and modules in… Continue reading Difference between npm and npx
Testing Twenty-Twenty One
Twenty-Twenty Theme has been released with WordPress 5.6 Beta 1. And I started this site, so it’s a good occasion as any to help with testing this beautiful new default theme for WordPress. There are many things I like and I will write about them. For now, my brain seems to pickup a few inconsistencies.… Continue reading Testing Twenty-Twenty One
Give Serendipity a chance
Earlier this week, Bluehost posted on Twitter the question: I liked the idea to build a site about coding and share more technical details about my work with nonprofits. I never had a place to organize my development notes online. Could be the occasional imposter syndrome creeping in holding me back… This site purpose is… Continue reading Give Serendipity a chance
JSX: Ignoring Case-Sensitivity Sends Browser Into Endless Loop
This post is a copy of a post on our family blog. It’s so much better housed here…. I am about half-way through Zac Gordon’s book React Explained. I read most of it on the plane back from Europe and didn’t do the exercises. A couple of weeks ago I finally circled back to them.… Continue reading JSX: Ignoring Case-Sensitivity Sends Browser Into Endless Loop