I missed posting last week due to some family responsibility, but I’ve got a bumper edition with some good stuff this week!
Tech/Software Development
- I was telling a colleague about design systems this week, and some places I had been to for inspiration – Codyhouse is a great resource including their 6 part series on Design System.
- WordPress Full Site Editing is ramping up for inclusion in core, and here’s a good podcast talking about the latest news there.
- Design platform Figma are having a conference in April.
- Want to learn how to make block patterns for WordPress? Here’s a great tutorial.
- In case you didn’t know, WooCommerce has a great free resource for learning modern JavaScript.
- Just another story of how people from Cape Town, South Africa have been instrumental in building large online tech companies – this time AWS.
- Mike Jolley finished his 4 part series on Headless WordPress with a great post!
- If you are looking for a free WordPress theme for your portfolio, this is a great new option called Eksell from Anders Norén!
- This is a useful collection of code cheatsheets and examples.
- If you prefer paper over digital wireframing, this printable resource is for you.
Life
- If you are still in lockdown and miss the pub or socializing in general, you can still pretend you are there with these sounds.
- My friend Rob Hope site One Page Love became a teenager! Congrats Rob! 🙂
- I see one of my favorite coffee shops in Cape Town ships internationally 🙂 and they ship my favorite roast, Black Honey, in capsules if you prefer that instead of beans!
- My favorite shoe brand, Vans, finally launched an online store for South Africa!
- Most of my friends know that I have a notebook obsession. I might just buy one of these to try as it looks pretty cool!
- A colleague of mine built one of these guitar kits recently, they look amazing!
- I also watched the Snyder cut of the Justice League, and saw Francis Ngannou become the UFC Heavyweight champ! (video below)
Treat your Ears/Mind
A twitter thread with some thought provoking advice: