I’ve been trying to carve out some time this week to update my own website, something which I always mean to do but something else always seems more important or more urgent. The feature I’ve just added was inspired by Léonie Watson’s website, and that’s to have a “dark” mode as well as the default “light”…
Why I’ve gone dot-com
Two and a half years ago, I launched my new website. At this time I deliberately shunned “riklewis.com” and instead decided to go with “rik.onl”, essentially because I liked how short it was. So why the u-turn? Largely it comes down to professionalism. There’s nothing wrong with having a catchy short URL and many very professional…
Subscribe options using IFTTT
I have recently added a couple of subscribe options to my blog, which if you’re viewing this on my site directly, and not via RSS, then you’ll see in the sidebar on the right. Currently I don’t want to manage my own email list, so I’ve set up a couple of recipes on IFTTT. If you’ve…
Partial stylesheet of shame
I came across an article a while ago, eloquently titled shame.css, written by a bit of a CSS hero, Henry Roberts. In this article he argues that having a separate file for all of your hacky horrible workarounds is a really good idea, not actually for shaming anyone, but for the following reasons… They stick out like…
Better Speed – a new WordPress plugin
Just 3 days ago I announced a new WordPress plugin; Better Detection. And now here I am, announcing a second one; Better Speed. Better Speed Improve the loading speed of your website by removing bloat and unused features. This plugin will allow you to easily remove bloat and turn off unused features, in order to streamline your…
Better Detection – a new WordPress plugin
A couple of months ago I wrote a post about WordPress plugins for Better Security, in which I talked about the two WordPress plugins that I’d already published (Better Passwords and Better Headers), both of which have been updated since. I also teased that I was working on a third. Well today I can announce that…