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What is going on with WordPress?!

Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic

WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction

Raycast

Stream Deck

Auto Hotkey

Keyboard Maestro

Whisper Flow

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Mike and Amanda discuss the current WordPress controversy and how it affects how it affects developers and website owners.

• What is WordPress
  • Original WordPress.org
  • Wordpress.com hosting
• Broad overview of the issue
• Trademark Lawsuit
• Advanced Custom Fields vs Secure Custom Fields
• Matt's conflict of interest
• Summary
• Advice for the future
• Cautionary tale

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WordPress

WordPress.com (hosting)

Automattic

WP Engine

Advanced Custom fields

Secure Custom Fields

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In this episode we discuss strategies for keeping up with technology trends and how to choose what to learn.

• Welcome to season 8
• CMS - how do you choose a new CMS?
• Maintenance contracts and security updates
• Front end frameworks - CSS, Javascript, etc..
• Laravel Mix and Vite
• Friends and colleagues influencing
• Code Editors (VsCode, Cursor and more)
• AI and Copilot
• upcoming topics in season 8

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Lunch Bytes (November 20, 2024)

Imposter Syndrome (S07 E04)

SyntaxFM

Visual Studio Code

Cursor

Claude AI

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Hear Sean share his 20-year journey as a coder, his love for problem solving, building, and the evolution of his career in Expression Engine and Craft CMS.

Sean was interviewed on the Craft Entries podcast. Listen to a snippet of the episode here. You can listen to the full episode at Craft Entries

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The Joy of Self Taught Coding

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The season finale is a raw and unedited episode. In this episode we express our gratitude towards our clients.

• Lunch Bytes - our live stream every 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 11:30am EST.
• Cool Projects
• Testimonials
• Referrals
• Gifts

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Lunch Bytes

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Rebroadcast of a season 5 episode - 11 Things to avoid doing on your website - We discuss various things to avoid doing with your website and why they are not a good idea.

• Disabling copy/paste
• Open in new tab
• Click here
• Using placeholder text and not using labels
• Low contrast text
• Not enough white space / breathing room
• No comments in your code or unformatted code
• For clients: Identify problems, don't suggest solutions.
• Dates on blogs that are infrequently updated
  
• Carousels / sliders
• Popups, modals, lightboxes
• Full size images on mobile

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stop disabling copy/paste in form fields (tweet)

Should external links open in a new tab or not?

Why you shouldnt say click here

Season 4 Episode 1 - Click Here

Should I use a Carousel

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Chris discusses how ADHD has impacted his career as a web developer and provides resources to other developers.

• What is ADHD?
• Chris's history and experience with ADHD
• Challenges for women getting diagnosed
• How does ADHD impact Chris's career in web develop
• Things an employer can do for an employee with ADHD
• Time awareness / blindness
• Reactions Chris receives when people learn he has ADHD
• What teachers can do to support students with ADHD
• See all the resources and links Chris has prepared for people with ADHD here: https://adhdftw.com/website-101/

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ADHD-Autism-OCD

Jonathon Stark

ADHD ftw!

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In this episode we talk with Online educator Ryan Irelan about online learning and keeping up with technology in web development.

• Ryans path to online teacher
• First course was with Pragmatic Programmers
• The switch from a la cart to subscription modal
• Udemy and course platforms
• Communication with Pixel and Tonic about upcoming features and changes
• Advantages/disadvantages of discord servers
• Chat GPT
• CraftQuest is launching a discord server!
• How Ryan learns new technologies
• Ryan's approach to teaching explained
• Ryan has strong opinions about Craft CMS
• What makes a good topic for a course, a lesson, or a livestream
• What Ryan does use for screen recording and editing

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CraftQuest

Pragmatic Bookshelf (formally programmer)

Udemy

Craft Quest community & discord

Obsidian

CraftQuest RSS feed

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In this episode we talk to returning guest Ben Croker about how to write a good support request.

• Turn it off and on
• Our experiences providing technical support
• How to troubleshoot before submitting a support request
• Rubber ducking
• Use the correct support channel: not DMs on social media
• When providing support a public, discoverable approach, such as github issues, is recommended
• RTFM - read the docs
• What to include in a support request
• What to exclude in a support request
• Sean's mistake asking Ben for support a few months ago
• Security issues
• Closing the issue

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The Dangers of Over Reliance on Plugins in Website Builds

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In this episode we reminisce about how things used to be done and how much web development has changed in the last 25 years. From under construction gifs to the rise and fall of jQuery we cover it all.

• Geocities
• Table based layouts
• Float based layouts

• Clearfix

  .clearfix::after {

content: "";

clear: both;

display: table;

}

 Equal Height columns 

• Matchmedia.js

Conditional comments

star selector hack ('star plus html) css hack.

Microsoft Kicks Off Campaign to Kill Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft anti-trust lawsuit

Image Ready - slicing design

WYSISWYG (drag and drop) html editors

• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Front Page
• Adobe Go Live

Adaptive Design (not responsive design)

Fluid Layout (CSS tricks article)

Rounded corners with sliding doors

Image Sprites

Cufon Fonts

Navigation tabs

CSS Zen Garden

Blink, Marquee (blink no longer works despite what Sean said in the show. However, the marquee tag does work)

Sean's Boilerplate (Season 7 Episode 5)

Animated gifs

• Under construction animated gif

1TB archive of Geocities (article) 

Web rings

Javascript 

• jQuery 
• Mootools

 

 

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