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Registering custom URLs with custom templates in WordPress (without using page templates)
It’s fairly common to find yourself on a situation where you want to use a specific URL to show a custom content (perhaps something an archive page with two different custom post types), and think: “well, that’s easy. I’ll just create a page to register the URL and a custom page template where I’ll query…
Mitigating CVE-2018-6389 WordPress DoS attack with lighttpd
Filtering active menu element class on WordPress
Let’s talk about usernames
In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow
Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts
Ephemera
Fresh stuff from around the web
This performant front-end archicture article it’s an excellent high-level technical overview of the entire process for showing a web page, from downloading resources to rendering and prefetching.
On Twelve Days of Front End Testing, Amy Kapernick shows twelve testing tools that cover several aspects of front end testing, such as visual regressions, accesibility, performance, etc.
React lifecycle diagrams – pretty useful to understand the sequence in which every method is invoked when a React component is created or updated. Check the official docs on React.Component for more details.
Request handlers are a different, simpler way to structure a PHP app leveraging the __invoke() magic method to create truly single-responsibility classes.
A beautiful example about how design choices can have a tangible impact on people’s lives: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes – BBC News