Constructable style sheets
One of the outstanding issues about web components is CSS reuse. Right now we either have to use ::part to create an external stylesheet to match the specified parts of the document or encapsulate...
Web Components: what they are and where are they?
Web Components are a set of specifications that address one of the biggest shortcomings of HTML. We're stuck with what the spec says we have and the browser implementors decide to give us... At least...
Writing Markdown extensions (2): Thoughts and ideas (so far)
Before jumping into writing our own Markdown elements and all the complexity that goes with them, let's stop and see where we are. Markdown rule customization gives you a lot of flexibility regarding...
Writing Markdown extensions (1): Customizing renderer behavior
Markdown gives you two options to work with specialized content: You can write it as HTML directly or you can use plugins for your Markdown tools that will produce the same result from some specific...
Working with dates in Javascript: The Temporal proposal
Note: The Temporal code is not ready for production, it is still possible (but not likely) that it'll change in incompatible ways before the final version is added to the ECMAScript specification,...
Markdown to HTML standalone converter tool
Ever since I started to work with Markdown as my authoring language, I've used Gulp as a conversion tool, when needed. The problem is that gulp-remarkable is poorly documented and has poor support for...
Font licensing: What do you get and is it worth it?
Foundries have this insane idea that people creating ebooks can afford the fees that they charge for use in a single format, much less for multiple delivery methods. I have an opinion about font...
Tagging and preparing a Github release
I don't normally do releases of my code. Whatever is on Github is what works and what I use to work with the code. There are times when a release of code at specific development milestones is...
Installing plugins and themes using github-updater
As far as I know, unless you put your themes and plugins in the directories, you can't update themes and plugins through the admin interface, you'll have to delete them and upload them...
Linting WordPress PHP code
One thing I've always tried to do is lint my PHP code as I go when working with WordPress so it won't bite me later if I try to submit the theme or plugin to the WordPress repositories. The best, and...