April 24, 2018JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, but thanks to the rise of many tools and services which simplify running a build and deploying to static hosting infrastru...
July 19, 2017We get a decent amount of comments on blog posts right here on CSS-Tricks (thanks!), but I’d also say the hay day for that is over. These days, if someone writes some sort of reaction to a blog post, it could be on their own blog, or more likely, on some social media site. It makes sense. That’s their home ...
December 7, 2016Lately, I’ve been obsessed with optimizing performance through lazy-loading. Recently, I’ve written on how to lazy-load Google Maps and on how to lazy-load responsive Google Adsense. Now it’s time for Disqus, a service for embedding comments on your website. It’s a great service. It eliminates t...
December 1, 2016Read Christie Aschwanden’s first paragraph. If you’ve written anything that elicits comments, I’m sure you can relate.
There is plenty of data here to digest, and also further speculation:I had a hypothesis: Maybe this commenting-without-reading phenomenon represents a variation of the backfire effe...
June 20, 2016In this article, we are going to look at how we can create and use our own custom annotations in a Symfony 3 application. You know annotations right? They are the docblock metadata/configuration we see above classes, methods and properties. You’ve most likely seen them used to declare Controller routes (@Route())...
April 14, 2016
As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black. Hear from three of those writers, explore the data and help us hos...
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April 24, 2018JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, but thanks to the rise of many tools and services which simplify running a build and deploying to static hosting infrastru...