What happened last week - issue #112
This week: Astro, WordPress, security and more
What happened last week
Last week, I was in Vienna—apart from the weather, it was totally amazing. I had a lot of fun, spent hours chatting with friends (old and new), and had the weirdest coffee ever—a watermelon coffee 🤯 If you don’t believe me, you can order it here.
Next week, I’m starting my biggest conference marathon, which will include CyberWiseCon, WebExpo, WordCamp Europe, WordCamp Kraków, and something I can’t share yet.
Also, I have some coupon codes if you would like to join me at some of those:
WebExpo in Prague - MACIEK25 for 15% off
CyberWiseCon in Vilnius - SPEAKERS20 for 20% off
Soon, I will reveal something cool regarding my job. Because I will have one announcement, but sadly, you have to wait a moment.
Interesting links
Content Layer API in Astro - how to create a CMS-agnostic website — Maciek Palmowski
Creating a CMS-agnostic website isn’t as simple as you might think. Luckily, Astro introduced the Content Layer API some time ago. Thanks to Content Layer API, you can change your CMS in a matter of minutes.
Critical SureTriggers Plugin Vulnerability Exploited within 4 hours — Patchstack
Did you ever think about how much time it takes until a vulnerability is exploited? It’s a matter of hours. This is a great example showing that just updating plugins might not be enough.
If you find this newsletter or my blog valuable enough that I deserve a coffee, you can buy me one - I created an account on BuyMeCoffee, and you can keep me caffeinated ☕ Thank you for all the coffee 😻
Smashing Animations Part 1: How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS — Andy Clarke
Amazing article by Andy showing how you implement tricks used in classical cartoons using modern CSS.
Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now: When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas — Paul Conroy
This is one of those “don’t do this at home” articles. Paul decided to use Stripe’s metadata as a DNS server. It’s a horrible idea, you should never do this, but it’s still so fascinating that someone even tried doing something like this.
Integrating Vite and DDEV into WordPress — Nathan Schmidt
Nathan explains how to set up Vite and DDEV with WordPress. Both technologies are industry standards, and if you are working not only with WP, learning both is a great idea.
From Next.js to Astro: A Page Size Comparison — Alan Norbauer
Alan rewrote his website from Next.js to Astro, and afterwards decided to compare the page size. It’s not a surprise that the Astro version is much smaller.
Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites… — Adrian Roselli
Lately, Figma added a few new features, including Figma Sites, which allow you to build websites. While on the first glance it looks cool, it seems that the code generated by it is horrible and inaccessible.
What nobody tells developers about documentation — Ian Vanagas
Great article about creating great documentation. Ian shows some examples of how you can improve yours.
Warp‑Speed WordPress: Speculative Loading Arrived in Core 6.8 — Rémi Corson
Rémi explains everything you should know about Speculative Loading in WordPress.
Figma Assets — Mario Hamann
Figma Assets is a great addon for Statamic that allows you to sync Statamic and Figma together. Watch the video the understand the concept better.
And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.
Cheers,
Maciek