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Building on yesterday’s work, I went ahead and setup some code to better display post responses. This website now supports facepiles! There’s a bit of work left in terms of design and visual appeal but I guess most part of the job is done!

Spent sometime today troubleshooting two pesky issues. Having switched to a new theme I realized my publishing workflow wasn’t fetching comments from Instagram posts. The Dsgnwrks plugin was fetching the images fine. But since I’d missed adding the syndication link for brid.gy to work its magic, the comments were not being back fed. This should be an easy fix. Probably I’ll use the custom fields that dsgnwrks creates and update syndication links field using a quick custom function. ...

Stained glass 101!

Web design is 95% typography, Oliver Reichenstein famously claimed. So web designers and front-end developers should all have typography skills. Skills that go beyond merely choosing fonts but actually contribute to producing readable, legible and inviting content online. Source: Better Web Type is an easy-to-follow web typography email course for web designers & web developers

Early morning walk by the Charles Esplanade / lagoon. Been wanting to come over to this side for quite sometime now and today happened to be just the right day! Crisp air, early morning spring chill and a good hour long run/walk! Need to do this more regularly. Also time to get into a kayak/sail boat this summer.

About a year ago, the Crown Prince of Dubai announced a plan to secure government documents on the blockchain by 2020, making it the first blockchain-powered city, ever. Dubai’s blockchain strategy is built on three pillars: government efficiency, industry creation, and international leadership. Just read: When a Smart City Is Run on the Blockchain like reply repost

Between Sex change and cleft lip procedures, two tales of doing the right thing and running on the fine line… Listen: Ep. 71: The Fox and the Hedgehog

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Yet another brilliant podcast from Radiolab. The first time I heard about the jury system here in the US, I was pleasantly surprised. This was a concept I never knew existed and while weighing the pros and cons of the system, I could never really decide which side weighed more. This talk runs along that fine ridge and broaches - jury nullification, yet another mighty ’toolset’ the jury holds. Source: Null and Void ...

LetsEncrypt makes you feel you’re doing highly technical stuff, yet makes it so simple to install certificates. I’d defer auto-renewals just to get to the meat every 90 days!