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Posts on development — Page 17
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
developmentJul 12, 2015· 3 min
Moving From Sublime to Atom
A comparison of Atom and Sublime Text after switching editors — where Atom shines with active development and HTML/CSS/JS extensibility, and where Sublime…
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developmentJul 10, 2015· 2 min
Moving From WordPress to Ghost to Jekyll
The journey from WordPress to Ghost to Jekyll — why each platform was a step closer to the ideal developer blogging setup, and what finally made a static…
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developmentApr 4, 2015· 1 min
Check Out Hyperpolygot
A recommendation for Hyperpolyglot, a site that puts JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby side-by-side to show how similar languages really are at a syntax…
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developmentApr 1, 2015· 1 min
Why I Decided to Use a Themeforest Theme
Why buying a Themeforest theme beat spending another weekend at 85% on a custom design — freeing up time and energy for writing and building things that…
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developmentMar 28, 2015· 1 min
Easily Retrieve Browser Information
A tip for getting exact browser and OS details from clients using yourbrowser.is — useful for reproducing cross-browser bugs with tools like Browserstack…
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developmentMar 22, 2015· 1 min
What I Miss From WordPress & What Ghost Does Better
An honest comparison list after switching from WordPress to Ghost — the features and familiarity left behind, and the things Ghost genuinely does better for…
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developmentMar 20, 2015· 1 min
How I (Almost...) Setup My Ghost Pro Custom Domain Name
A candid account of attempting to point a custom domain to Ghost Pro — the DNS rabbit hole, what almost worked with CloudFlare and Hover, and why sometimes…
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developmentMar 15, 2015· 7 min
St. Louis WordCamp 2015 Notes
Personal notes and session schedule from St. Louis WordCamp 2015 — highlights include a talk on Atomic Design Principles and a podcasting panel that made…
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developmentMar 12, 2015· 1 min
A minute with a Ghost...
A first look at Ghost CMS after years on WordPress — covering its speed, built-in Markdown support, and writer-focused experience that makes blogging feel…
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