• WordPress Features: What’s Worth Stealing?

    WordPress Capabilities that JAMstack Really Should Steal The precursor of WordPress was called Cafelog, and there’s a sort of architectural fragment left from it that carbon dates its demise occurring sometime in 2004. That fossil page makes clear what the defining idea of b2 (as Cafelog’s underlying software was called) was all about: “pages are generated…

  • FireEye Hack: Maybe All Security News Can Be Good News

    When FireEye announced yesterday that “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities” had used “novel techniques” to steal an inhouse red-team tool, the security community found itself wondering what their reaction should be. It’s a community that, in the past, has struggled not to eat its own children when embarrassing things happened. This time around, there…

  • Basecamp HEY: Why’d You Have to Change Everything?

    Hey is a mail service you may have heard of. It’s been one of the trendy new things on the internet this year and it’s intriguing because it so solidly comes from a “you’re doing it wrong” sort of mentality. There’s just the tiniest hint of religious zeal about it. To be sure, though: there…

  • Cybersecurity Content Marketing SEO for Vendors

    Summary: Here are the on-page SEO basic steps that will get you more results per ounce of cybersecurity content marketing effort than anything else you might do. If you are a security vendor that hasn’t built basic SEO into your workflow, I’m going to share with you the easiest approach to tuning up a blog…

  • Cybersecurity: Still Not a Profit Center in 2021

    What I haven’t seen yet in the inevitable year-end blog predictions of what will happen in the coming year–and it struck me as odd because it seems like someone always has to have it as a bullet point–is that brands can start using their better-than-average security postures as a way to build a tighter bond…

  • will there be any christmas cheer?

    [et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.7.4" _module_preset="default"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.7.4" _module_preset="default"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.7.4" _module_preset="default"][et_pb_testimonial author="Everyone, all through 2020" portrait_url="https://peakzebra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/woman-with-facemask-1.png" _builder_version="4.7.4" _module_preset="default"] Well, that was weird. [/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.4″ _module_preset=”default”] Now December is here and the question for some of us is, well,  How Do Tech Companies Market in 2021?  The simple answer is more content marketing. And yes, you might consider…

  • kebab case

    It’s a minor thing, but somehow I never until just today knew that when you name variables using hyphens between words, like some-variable or count-of-chickens, it’s called kebab case. And, duh, of course it is. I did already know, just so the record is clear, about camel case and snake case. It sounds like a…

  • embedding javascript in wordpress posts

    One thing I recently heard for the first time (because I’m not really all that immersed in the current world of WordPress development) is that the Gutenberg block system that new versions of WordPress use is implemented in JavaScript. And it would appear that all the client-side work on WordPress is in JavaScript where possible.…

  • What is json, we begin

    What is json, we begin

    In the first epoch of my professional life, we scraped along without JSON files. So, while I knew that package.json was a file that kept cropping up in node.js, I wasn’t really clear on “what is JSON?” thing was all about, or even what the acronym stood for. So, OK, it stands for JavaScript Object…

  • A play.js detour

    Even in this age of contagion, I had a situation where it really made sense to fly out on a morning and back that evening. I decided to take the iPad instead of the notebook, and while I was at it, I decided to take a look at what the possibilities for coding on iPad…