Category: commenting

The Art of Comments

I believe commenting code is important. Most of all, I believe commenting is misunderstood. I’m tentative to write this article at all. I am not a commenting expert (if there is such a thing) and have definitely written code that was poorly commented, not commented at all, and have written comments that are super...

Improving Conversations using the Perspective API

I recently came across an article by Rory Cellan-Jones about a new technology from Jigsaw, a development group at Google focused on making people safer online through technology. At the time they’d just released the first alpha version of what they call The Perspective API. It’s a machine learning tool that...

Building a Jekyll Site – Part 3 of 3: Creating a Firebase-Backed Commenting System

The following is a guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. This final post is about adding some functionality to a Jekyll site that isn’t possible: comments. That’s because Jekyll has no backend component in which to save comments. But, we don’t even need that if we do it entirely front-end with...