Screencast videos are a really powerful way of demonstrating web development issues to clients. Whether showing the impact of changes from back-end to front-end or from third party tools like Pingdom, clients love to see behind the curtain – but ideally in an explainer video lasting no more than 10 minutes.
TLDR: Cheltenham Festival 2019 Tips
Okay, so there’s a great big huge (tautology, yum) Cheltenham Festival 2019 Tips item online at LBP…
But for those of you with normal human attention spans, maybe you just want a tip for each race at Chelters? Read on below.
No more waffle. Just free tips!
Gold Standard: Horse Racing on the Web
For those in the know, it’s Gold Cup week and the internet is a-flurry with coverage of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival meet where the cream of the horse racing world gather for top-class Group 1 racing.
Video: Giggs “Fire in the Booth” (Part 4)
This is entirely Not Safe For Work. If you are offended by the C-bomb, don’t play the video. If the F-bomb bothers you, then likewise, move it along. If the N-Bomb grinds your gears, again, don’t play this.
Easy Invoicing & Accounts for Freelancers and Agencies
UPDATED July 2022
I’m regularly in touch with a coterie of around 250 specialist developers over at Codeable and a common pinch-point for their freelancing activities outside the platform is finding an easy way to invoice clients and keep track of payments. Indeed, it’s why Codeable is preferable for many.
With recent Making Tax Digital requirements for Limited companies (and others) who have registered for UK VAT, you may find HMRC is insisting on you using “third party software” to report your VAT. A key advantage of FreeAgent is that it can track and submit your VAT (and company, and personal) accounts, directly, into HMRC, having reconciled the original payment directly from your bank.
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Google Search Console Error: Either “offers”, “review”, or “aggregateRating” should be specified
Here’s an error which has started showing up for a lot of stores’ product category pages – WooCommerce stores in particular – in Google Search Console:
New Google AMP Warning “Image size smaller than recommended size”
If you’re running AMP for fast loading pages on the mobile web (and, if you’re not, you should give it a try, it’s awesome!), you maybe got a notification in Search Console (AKA Google Webmaster Tools) that “Image size smaller than recommended size” for some or all of your AMP content.
WordPress 5.0.3 is Live
The latest version of WordPress – WP 5.0.3 – went live on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and it’s working fine and as expected on my site here, and several clients who have minor version updates turned on.
Backward Compatibility Vs Technical Debt
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.