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An ExpressionEngine plugin to access content entries further than a single relationship away.
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"State of CSS 2019":https://2019.stateofcss.com/.
"Naval's How to Get Rich: Every Episode":https://nav.al/how-to-get-rich. His bifurcation between wealth and status is particularly bracing.
The Beta for Strapi v3 is out, with such major internal changes that it might well have been Strapi 4. Strapi is the Node-based self-hosted content management system / API generator that I use (though not yet for this site). The "migration":https://strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-beta.x/migration-guide/migration-guide-alpha.26-to-beta.html is quite involved, but for the first time I can remember, a migration like this went off without a hitch and worked first time! I'm very pleased with my choice of Strapi, even wearing the t-shirt. Bravo the Parisians!
Interesting /r/webdev thread: "Does real web dev exist? Like the stuff they write all those articles about?":https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/bu7lii/does_real_web_dev_exist_like_the_stuff_they_write/ The consensus seems to be that the further along the spectrum from web site to web app, the more testing and whatnot becomes worthwhile.
Nice frank piece by Monica Lent, a software engineer in Berlin, about "mistakenly believing one is a senior developer":https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/.
Well this is handy: an article on "all James Bond's watches":https://www.watchtime.com/featured/watches-james-bond/.
We must be facing this: David Gelertner on "giving up Darwin":https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/giving-up-darwin/. Like Smith's invisible hand and even Newton's laws of physics, these glorious, newly-algorithmic cosmologies — the precursors to our wonder-world of bitty digitalism — aren't the full explanation.
First episode of "Views on Vue":https://overcast.fm/+Meco779Jw that I've found worthwhile, on things people _don't_ like about Vue, including a discussion on language and translation.
This detailed account of "how The Guardian changed its tech stack":https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres provides an excellent peek into the workings of a large digital media outfit.
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ext coming soon (which to be honest is about three words longer than our usual set of documentation; clients get training and we usually leave it up to them to spread the skills among their staff).
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