Creating a technology glossary
As part of creating a writing guide for my content, I've been thinking about how to create a glossary of technical terms that we can expand as we go along. Yahoo! Style Guide provided such a glossary...
Import maps: What they are and why they are important
Most current browsers support ESModules. This is the way the ECMAScript standard defines import modules. However, because it's come late to the party after UMD and CommonJS modules, they are not...
Github Actions for Process Automation
A lot of times we need to build a project every time we make changes. I picked my Gulp publishing process to test if Github actions work with this. The idea is that every time we push a commit or we...
Annotating a WordPress site with Hypothesis
I've always been interested in web annotations as a means to increase interaction between users and content and between users. Over the time I've been researching the annotation landscape I've found...
CSS Modules and Constructable Stylesheets
If you work with web components, one of the pain points is how to add styles to multiple copies of the same component. None of the existing solutions work well and all have one or more rough edges....
Baseline for Javascript development: modules in the browser without transpilation
Last April, I wrote Evergreen browsers and looking for a sane JS baseline looking for a sane Javascript baseline where I could write scripts without having to worry about transpilation for those...
Another look at my Gulp build system
Every so often I like to look at my build process and see where I can make improvements or changes that are necessary because the code has changed. For this iteration the changes are: Finally...
A New Way to Create Block Plugins
As the Gutenberg ecosystem matures, we get new tools and features to support the creating plugins. One of the newest tools to create block plugins leverages npx command to scaffold a new block...
@wordpress/env development environment
@wordpress/env allows you to create a development environment for your WordPress plugin or theme. It addresses the following use case: You want to test your theme or plugin without installing it on a...
Building XML programmatically
XML still hunts us. There are still XML vocabularies that are necessary for the web to work well. One of these vocabularies is SVG, a means to create vector and mixed vector/raster graphics for the...