GitHub CLI is in beta

You know when you’re working away on your development, perhaps a website or a WordPress plugin, and you check in to Git using the command line, but then you have to switch over to the browser in order to create the pull request in GitHub?  Well not anymore! GitHub has now released GitHub CLI in beta, version 0.5.5 at…

No more javascript alerts

I’ve been a web developer long enough to remember when window.console wasn’t a thing.  Then it appeared in Safari and Firebug, the awesome developer tool plugin for Firefox (that made Firefox my default development browser it was so good), but we had to object detect for it.  And Opera decided to go their own way and…

Pluralsight – get 33% off

Back by popular demand, Pluralsight is offering 33% off it’s Annual and Premium subscriptions, for a limited time only. That’s right, the extremely excellent online learning platform that I’ve written about numerous times before, and have completed many courses myself on over the years, is back with another offer, this time for 33% off subscriptions. Grab…

Fun with console logging

Ok, so “fun” is probably a relative term here, but it’s certainly possible to do a lot more with console logging than a lot of developers realise, including myself up until a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve just had the opportunity to use it in my latest project, Compare the Project™. So if you got…

Windows 10 search bar broken

For the past couple of days, my laptop’s search bar has been broken, just returning a blank box and no results, which has been driving me nuts.  For some reason, not quite nuts enough to Google for a solution, but then one came up randomly in my Twitter feed… If your Windows 10 start menu…

New project – Compare the Project

Today I am announcing a new project that I’ve been working on for a little while now… Compare the Project. If you don’t work with SITS:Vision then this project really isn’t going to mean much to you, by which I mean that it’s really really niche.  But hopefully, for the right people, it’s super useful. In…