Articles tagged with “software”
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Don’t use stale bots
It’s okay for a software project to have a lot of open issues. It’s okay if you’re not able to triage issues, let alone close them. It’s not okay to use stale bots.
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Designing calculator apps
Looking at different calculator apps, we reflect on the imitative nature of all software and the dreaded concept of skeuomorphism.
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RAW Power 3: an affordable digital photo development app for macOS
My personal review of RAW Power, a photo editing app for macOS and iOS that is shaping up to be an alternative to Lightroom or Aperture.
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A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites
Looking for tools that are privacy-conscious, tell me which pages are the most visited, and are cheap enough.
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PHP code typing with Kirby CMS
Kirby 3 is built with PHP 7 and uses type annotations extensively, but this often won’t be reflected in an IDE. This post explores why, and what workarounds you can use.
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Where should you put logic code in Kirby CMS?
Kirby CMS has a few options for where to put your PHP logic: in templates, controllers, page models or page methods. My favorite is page models, and we can work around their main limitation easily.
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Static site generators
I’ve been looking for a decent static site generator to build a simple, 10-page-or-so documentation site, and I’m failing. Here are some notes on my journey, to serve as a warning sign to future travellers, and thoughts on what static site generators could do better.
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Command line tips
Semi-random tips I’ve learned that help working with the command line.
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A few wishes for privacy settings in Firefox
Firefox could do more to limit online tracking. Recently with the Quantum effort, Mozilla rebranded Firefox along three attributes: speed, customization and privacy. Yet the browser’s defaults allow most tracking techniques by default, for the sake of compatibility with existing websites.
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Last.fm scrobbling
I removed last.fm scrobbling from all the music players I was using on my computers and on my phone. I closed my last.fm account, whose pages now show a “User not found” message along with a cute sad mixtape icon. Here’s why.
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Music tagging done right
Call me a computer freak or a music nerd if you will, but I like to tag my music with more than the dead simple artist/title combo. Only problem is, music players just don’t care.