Library’s to play with
I’ve starred a bunch of libraries on Github lately and look forward to giving them a spin when I get a chance. Anyone played with any of these yet? Stately Stately is a symbol font that makes is easy...
View ArticleIntroducing Punchcard.py
If you haven’t noticed, I like punchcard graphs. I like them so much, I have a script that to generate them. I’ve now released this script for everyone to use. Punchcard.py is simple to use and I...
View ArticleSpeaking at AccessU on Open Source and Accessibility
Next month I’ll be speaking at AccessU on Open Source Tools for Building Accessible Websites. I’m excited to share my love of two things: Open Source Software and Accessibility. Accessibility to me is...
View ArticleAaron’s Rules for Better Meetings
Meetings are Toxic. One of the most shared links among tech teams. In general, developers realize that meetings are not the place to get work done. In order to make meeting suck less, I’ve come up with...
View ArticleA Crazy Idea…
I just submitted a proposal to a WordCamp for a talk I’m calling “Aaron Struck by Lightning”. It is an experiment in challenging myself and in giving real time choice to the audience as to what they...
View ArticleProfiling WordPress made easy with Varying Vagrant Vagrants
Varying Vagrant Vagrants provides a setup of WordPress that is ripe for you to start profiling the PHP WordPress and your themes and plugins runs. The combination of xdebug, Webgrind, and a simple...
View ArticleAccessability Camp Bay Area 2014
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be a part of the inaugural Accessibility Camp Bay Area 2014. I’ll be leading a session entitled “Web Accessibility on a Time Budget”. We will be discussing how to...
View ArticleChanges should happen in Code, not in UI
If you are deploying your WordPress site, it generally doesn’t make much sense to have to go in and setup changes when you push the newest version live. When you push to production, production should...
View ArticleAggregate Multiple Log Files From Multiple Servers
The majority of the time I need to analyze logs across multiple servers, I use logstash. Sometimes though I want to aggregate the actual files on the server and go through them myself with awk and...
View ArticleTesting for Web Accessibility in 60 Seconds
You want to make your website more accessible, but you don’t know where to start. If you have 60 seconds, I can help. via David A. Kennedy. Some great tips on how to do super simple, yet super valuable...
View ArticleColor Is Based on Surrounding Color
“The redness isn’t a property of the apple. It’s a property of the apple in combination with a particular lighting that’s on it and a particular observer looking at it.” via These X’s Are The Same...
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