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Want to know all about privacy with Firefox? This guide from Sven Taylor is incredibly comprehensive and gets deep into the browser's preferences and settings. I've been enjoying using Firefox as my primary browser for about a month. 🦊

The 10th Yoastcon is happening on…

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Dan Knauss

The 10th Yoastcon is happening on April 24, 2020, in the Netherlands. It appears this SEO conference led by Yoast will be free. (Ticket information is forthcoming.) 🎟️ In the past, this event has been recorded and live-streamed, but that…

This week is “Digital Citizenship Week,”…

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This week is "Digital Citizenship Week," and Yvette Sonneveld has written a quality post on the role of open source in "good citizenship." 🏛️ As bloggers, we should consider what it means to write responsibly. As designers and developers, we…

Sally Simms says the barrier to…

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Sally Simms says the barrier to building things on the web is getting lower, which explains the popularity of the no-coding movement. 🚫👨‍💻 Sally is excited by the trends she describes, but she is quick to point out that no-code…

Bradley Taunt shows how to make…

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Bradley Taunt shows how to make tables responsive with minimal CSS. He also recommends this updated CSS Tricks post and this article on Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA.

This week Meetup.com announced that it…

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This week Meetup.com announced that it is going to charge event attendees a mandatory $2 fee to attend events, even if those events are free. Meetup.com is commonly used for local gatherings in the tech industry, including the WordPress community.…

Paul Calvano notes that the Chrome…

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Paul Calvano notes that the Chrome UX Report (CrUX) shows that about 5% of global traffic has a 3G connection type, and he shows where its coming from. 🌍

Want to strengthen your JavaScript skills?…

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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.…

Manuel Matuzovic takes on accessibility and…

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Manuel Matuzovic takes on accessibility and shares six things he checks on every website he builds. These include automatic tests, image descriptions, and keyboard navigation.

Daryl Koopersmith and Wilson Miner go…

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Daryl Koopersmith and Wilson Miner go into detail about designing accessible color systems. Using a "perceptually uniform color model" is vital to accessibility because color is subjective and very "hard to reason about." 🎨

Quite a bit of developer information…

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Quite a bit of developer information has been published on the upcoming WordPress 5.3 release this past week: 👉🏻 In WordPress 5.3, the version of Backbone bundled with WordPress will be updated from version 1.3.3 to 1.4.0 with a few…

Jonathan Desrosiers has a breakdown of…

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Jonathan Desrosiers has a breakdown of the changes in PHP 7.4 "that plugin and theme developers need to be aware of and should accommodate in their code." ⚠️

Dave Whitley outlines a proposal to…

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Dave Whitley outlines a proposal to standardize a type scale for WordPress: "By including other attributes like font weight and line height, we can create a reusable set of predefined styles for design and development."

Eric Mann notes that “WordPress nonces…

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Eric Mann notes that "WordPress nonces are, admittedly, not numbers and not used once." Since they're not "true nonces," WordPress nonces "fall down horribly" and constitute a "fatal flaw" when developers use them to secure the admin. 🔓 Eric says…

According to a recent post on…

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According to a recent post on Google's official security blog, Chrome is being prepared to start blocking all mixed content. As of Chrome 79, the browser "will gradually move to block all mixed content by default." It will auto-upgrade mixed…

Chris Aniszczyk talks about open source…

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Chris Aniszczyk talks about open source gerrymandering by looking at a variety of different open-source and similar platforms to see how they are governed. 🎩 It’s really important to note that there is a difference between open source and open…

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