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WordCamp Europe 2023
WCEU is just a few weeks away, this time coming from the beautiful city of Athens. And, assuming it doesn’t put you off, I’ll be one of the speakers. My talk has the title of “10 Things WordPress Plugin Developers Should Avoid”. I promise it’s less click-baity than the title suggests. Tickets are still available.
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Review: Dove Pro Age Hand Cream
After loosing a lot of weight a few years back and, thanks to my advancing years too, my hands became more visibility aged – loose skin and age spots appearing. This is on top of the fact that I already suffer from dry skin. As a result, for a number of years, I’ve been using…
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Vienna: Wien the team gets together
Just a few weeks since my last meetup, I’m on the move again. This time it’s my team’s meetup and we’re heading to Vienna in Austria. We’ve split the team between a hotel and a nearby Airbnb, the latter of which will be where we all meet up during the day. This not only gives…
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CSS compression script: now open source
Back in 2008 I released an online tool (which was a simple page on this site) for CSS compression. You pasted in your CSS, pressed a button and it compressed it. However, I never really did much else with it – either improving what it did and what functions it provided, but also promoting it.…
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CSS compression: reducing colour values
In the upcoming month I’m going to share a number of ways of compressing CSS. And one of the most basic is to reduce the various colour values down. Usually, hex values are used and, sometimes, the colour names. And choosing the right one can save up to 13 characters per reference. Let’s explore how…