Passing flags and arguments to Gulp
There are times when we want to do different things based on whether we're creating code for production or development. This is based on the example from the Gulp documentation. We'll use this as the...
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Automating WordPress Translations
One of the strong points of WordPress is that it's easy to translate the tool itself. As discussed in Translating WordPress Themes the process for translating WordPress elements is as follows: Add a...
Google fonts way of serving variable fonts
One of the biggest pain points of variable fonts was that they were not available in font CDNs like Google Fonts. In October 2019, Google released the new version of its API that supported variable...
Updating a service worker using Workbox
In my layouts site I use Workbox as an abstraction to create a service worker. I created the service worker with version 3 of the library and it was good. The problem is that the longer it passes the...
Formating numbers with Javascript
When working with numbers on Javascript I've most frequently seen toLocaleString as the solution to format numbers. The following example uses US Dollars as the currency and accounting as the currency...
What replaces Flash?
We have four months or so before Flash goes away and the biggest question after why is it going away? Is what replaces Flash? This is an important issue and not just for those people who are worried...
Git: Adding a remote parent to a forked repository
Git allows developers to fork and clone repositories. The main difference between the two commands is that when you clone a repository you create an exact copy of the "main" repository, to...
Javascript Dynamic Imports
There is a function-like, dynamic form of import that will allow us to play with imports inside modules and classes and will let us work with them together with async functions and awaiting for async...
Exploring Typescript: Notes about the language as I learn it
Typescript is good to usee but at times it can be really infuriating to learn how to use it and to use it properly. When you bring in Javascript files to convert to Typescript it will give you many...
Exploring Typescript: Setting up the tools
Typescript is an interesting language. It's a typed superset of Javascript that you can compile to usable Javascript, either ES5 or later yearly versions of the language. Because it's not straight...