ByDan Knauss
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Craig Buckler shared a number of JavaScript developer tool “secrets.”
One tip I picked up: Chrome’s Coverage panel allows you to quickly locate JavaScript (and CSS) code that has — and has not — been used. 👨💻
Chrome now has native lazy-loading for images and IFrames. There are already several good explanations of how this works and how to adjust your markup. An initial Trac ticket for lazy loading in WordPress core exists, and it was mentioned in a recent WordPress core JavaScript developer meeting. 💤
Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are new to me — apparently, you can get one on a Windows machine as a malware payload from fake CloudFlare DDoS alert pages on hacked WordPress sites. Ben Martin at Sucuri explains “a recent surge in JavaScript injections targeting WordPress sites has resulted in fake DDoS prevent prompts which lead…
Want to strengthen your JavaScript skills? Read this post by Tania Rascia on “Understanding This, Bind, Call, and Apply in JavaScript.” 💪 Simon Holdorf also has some ideas for helping you boost your skills as a front-end developer in 2020. Chris Coyier responded to Simon’s post with additional learning projects that focus a lot less…
Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that’s worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It’s used by Drupal‘s Drush, that project’s equivalent of WP-CLI.
📺 I only found one video worth watching this past week, but it’s a big one: “The Economics of Open Source” was an outstanding talk given by C J Silverio at the recent JSConf EU 2019. Who really owns open source and how organizations aren’t acting in your best interest are subjects that touch all…
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.
