I recently purchased the somad.es domain for use with my own URL shortener. (Vanity or owning my own URLs: you decide.) I decided to use Alan Hogan’s Lessn More, an improved fork of Shaun Inman’s Lessn. I then decided I wanted to integrate the shortlink into my WordPress install, but the existing WP Lessn plugin […]
Author Archives: Matt
FontFriend 2.5
January 11, 2011 – 7:51 pm
FontFriend was designed and coded as during the twilight of the pre-webfont era. In fact, it was abstracted out of some code I’d been using while developing the CSS font stacks for my WordPress theme The Erudite. I haven’t been using it much as of late, as I’ve been wearing my developer hat more than […]
Doing Things the WordPress Way
January 10, 2011 – 9:00 am
This past Friday marked the second Winnipeg WordPress meetup, and it was fantastic. It also marked my first time presenting on a tech topic, and I thank everyone for letting me ramble for a while! Len from WPCanada has a great writeup of the event and has high hopes for the future. My presentation was […]
Better Web Reading
January 3, 2011 – 12:23 pm
It’s damn hard to read web content sometimes. Too-small text, articles split over multiple pages, gratuitous banner ads, design that steals you attention from the actual content: these all conspire to make reading on the web—especially long-form content—frustrating, painful and sometimes downright infuriating. 2010 saw two major approaches to this come to some degree of […]
Testing IE9’s WOFF Support
December 28, 2010 – 10:00 am
IE9 officially supports the new WOFF format for embedding webfonts. And there was much rejoicing. But, the question that’s been nagging away at me has been: how do we as web developers account for IE’s legacy EOT format while giving preferential treatment to the emerging WOFF standard? The short answer is: keep using Paul Irish’s […]