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Train Track Veggie Market

Wow! Is this thing up to code?

Starry Station – a smart wi-fi device

Starry Station is a “smart wi-fi” device. It helps you keep track of the devices connected to your network and monitors the health of your broadband connection. Starry…

Old School Shaving – #lifehack

I’ve gone old school when it comes to shaving. Through the years I’ve dabbled with the latest multi-blade disposables and electric razors. However, back in 2014 the Rockwell…

Ask a #webdev: Can I build a multilingual site with WordPress?

A teacher friend of mine sent me the following question: One of my students wanted me to ask you a question – He wondered if you could make…

Contentful: a developer-friendly, API-first CMS

Contentful is a “headless” CMS. In other words, it’s a content management system with no display layer. They worry about building a backend that your content creators can…

Dropbox Uploader #bashscript with DB backup, Dropbox Upload, and Old File Deletion

I’ve got a couple of databases that I like to backup nightly and upload to my Dropbox. Key to this process is Andrea Fabrizi’s excellent Dropbox Uploader script….

restdb.io – The Plug And Play Database Service

restdb.io is a “plug-and-play” database service. Use their service to build your database, add your data via their system’s GUI or API, and query your data for use…

Board 2 by Oree

The price is a bit steep for me, but I love the look of this all-wood keyboard by Oree. Portable wireless keyboard handcrafted from single piece of solid premium…

Drone in the snow! – Depth of Field Productions

If you’ve watched the NBC Nightly News this week, you may have noticed that they used footage from the Knoxville area during the past two evenings. On Wednesday night,…

CMS.js – Javascript CMS

CMS.js is a light-weight Javascript site generator that is super-easy to setup. I can see it being great for a one page website or a simple blog. CMS.js…

WP Live.php – “livereload for WordPress”

I’m very used to using grunt-contrib-watch to “livereload” my browser while I’m developing a site. Today it occured to me the same feature would be nice to have when I’m…

Links of Interest: Serving WordPress

I’ve been developing WordPress-powered websites since 2008. When I started, I was dependent on my web host for my server builds. Over the years, I’ve become proficient in building…

SkyDeck

This airline seat concept looks like it would make for an amazing view. The website comments that the design is currently “patent and trademark pending”. How long until…

Theme cards, for the love of free themes and templates

Handy reference next time you’re hunting for a nice looking free theme: Theme.cards. Explore the best free themes. VOTE UP & COLLECT YOUR FAVORITES. THEME.CARDS IS A CURATION…

Aseprite – Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Next time you’re looking to build a retro, 2D platformer, Aseprite might be a great tool for creating all your graphics.

Links of Interest: Hard Sci-Fi Reading List, Taco Bell Programming, and more

Here are several great links that have been collecting in my queue: Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics – Like sci-fi? Looking for something to read?…

Minimal WordPress Themes

You’ve got a ton of ideas for some great blog posts, and you don’t want your site’s theme getting in the way of all your great content? Check out…

Make Your Site Faster with Async and Deferred JavaScript: Introducing script_loader_tag – WPShout

Learn how to speed up your WordPress page loads by using the script_loader_tag filter. WPShout explains how. Today I’m going to discuss a new, and very nice, site…

EasyEngine – WordPress On Nginx Made Easy!

EasyEngine makes it easy to set up and manage your own VPS with WordPress sites running on Nginx. EasyEngine (ee) is python based command line control panel to…

Snowball – A powerful WordPress plugin for creating immersive longform articles for the web

Snowball is a WordPress plugin that serves as an additional editor inside your admin. Inside Snowball you can build longform articles that sit alongside the rest of the…