Marketing

Headless CMS Options: ContentStack

by | March 4, 2021 | Business, Web Stack | 0 Comments

I got a chance to look at another one of the major headless CMS (hCMS—the ‘h’ is decapitated) contenders, namely ContentStack. In a world where it’s hard to tell one hCMS from another, a couple of ContentStack’s differentiators are what it calls ‘modular blocks,’ an...
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Basecamp HEY: Why’d You Have to Change Everything?

by | December 10, 2020 | Business | 0 Comments

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...
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Cybersecurity: Still Not a Profit Center in 2021

by | December 7, 2020 | Business | 0 Comments

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...
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An early agenda

by | October 28, 2020 | Business | 0 Comments

The past two years I’ve operated from the web site over at EmergingTechInsight.com. That was the web domain I hastily grabbed as I was exiting an editorial job I'd for a few years. Basically I needed a work address for future email to go to. When I worked with clients...
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Programming

Over-And-Under Static WordPress

by | July 2, 2021 | Programming, PZP | 0 Comments

Proponents of GraphQL interfaces are quick to point out that this approach allows you to easily use WordPress as a headless Content Management System (CMS) with a static site serving as your front end. They’re not wrong. And as a developer, using the WPGraphQL...
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what is a static site generator?

by | June 16, 2021 | Programming, Web Stack | 0 Comments

There are lots of static site generators (SSGs) out there these days, coupled to a lot of different headless content management systems (CMSs), using various development frameworks, running with various templating languages, and making life seem a lot more complicated...
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On WordPress and Static Site GENERATOR THEMES

by | June 10, 2021 | Programming, Web Stack | 0 Comments

In WordPress, you can get lots of potential looks and (to some extent) behaviors just by installing a “WordPress Theme” and activating it within the admin panel of your WordPress instance. This site, PeakZebra, for instance, is running the Extra theme, made by...
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Gatsby rolls out functions, “shifts left”

by | June 8, 2021 | JavaScript, Web Stack | 0 Comments

Gatsby (the company) held a “summer camp” online earlier today and used the occasion to push the new “functions” capability into general availability. Functions is interesting in and of itself, but equally interesting was the way that Gatsby, and product director...
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GatsbyConf 2021 brings new 3.0 version and new images

by | March 3, 2021 | JavaScript, Web Stack | 0 Comments

Latest revision: March 4, 2021 The online virtual GatsbyConf, which kicked off today, announced at least six significant updates, including a 3.0 release of Gatsby itself; a new component that goes beyond the already savvy Gatsby-sharp handling images used within...
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The Core Web Vitals Report

by | February 9, 2021 | JavaScript, Programming, Web Stack | 0 Comments

Nobody loves a report more than I do.

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TheJam.dev Day Two: Looks at Angular+Jamstack, Github Founder’s Take

by | January 29, 2021 | JavaScript, Web Stack | 0 Comments

Key among the events at the second day of the Jam.Dev online event was the concluding “fireside chat” with RedwoodJS creator and Github founder Tom Preston-Warner, in which Preston-Warner imagined a more full-stack edge architecture, something he is working on...
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TheJam.dev 2021 kicks off with azure and ecommerce

by | January 28, 2021 | JavaScript, Programming, Web Stack | 0 Comments

Today was the first day of a two-day Jam.Dev event online. The event had a lot to offer people who are presently trying to sort out the lay of the land in the static site generator ecosystem. The Azure Take on Static Shmuela Jacobs, cloud developer advocate at...
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WordPress Features: What’s Worth Stealing?

by | December 22, 2020 | Programming | 0 Comments

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...
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kebab case

by | November 10, 2020 | Programming | 0 Comments

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...
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