OneTab – Jeffikus

OneTab Links: Episode 19

This week I’ve been gearing up for a good 2 weeks time off. It’s been hard because of some family health issues, and the third wave here has been challenging, but I still found some good stuff to share!

Tech/Software Development

Great article on how to backup your WooCommerce store.
Square will build a hardware Bitcoin wallet.
I really like this todo list app 🙂
A slick UI checklist for Notion.
A gorgeous accessible color system.
Summary of Theme features in WordPress 5.8
Useful tool for those dealing with financial data.
A primer on building Gutenberg blocks for WordPress.org

Life

I finally fall into an age group that can be vaccinated in South Africa!
Thinking of purchasing this -> Engineering Management for the Rest of Us.
Open Source transforming Insulin Manufacturing.

Treat your Ears/Mind

It’s all about perspective…

Owning a car and a house is the beginning, you have not yet arrived

There's more, someone owns the factory where your car was assembled
— Thobelani Mchunu (@ThobelaniMchun3) July 8, 2021

Ah Keanu, not just a meme, you are a treasure!

Fired from Facebook, on to AppSumo. Lessons to be learnt.

Free React course for Beginners.

Interesting NoCode Tech Stack.

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OneTab Links: Episode 18

Episode 18…the series would be ending high school if it were a person! Got some really interesting stories as usual!

Tech/Software Development

Github is revamping how issues work.
Local Pro is now free for everyone. Spin up a WP or PHP site on your local machine.
Good free JavaScript course here.
This is fun little CodePen – a Scaleletrix set!
Code in Visual Studio Code? Like Fortnite? Then this theme is for you!
I was wondering what code Tesla uses and stumbled onto the fact that they use PHP amongst their many languages!!! Specifically the Slim Framework.
Jetpack released a new mobile app.
6 free places to host your apps.

Life

I went to the airport for the first time in over a year. Super weird!
It’s easy to forget this, but Thinking is Work.
My division lead published a post with some book recommendations for all leaders.
I joined Automattic 6 years ago! It’s been quite the ride!

Treat your Ears/Mind

Wanna get started coding? Dead easy…

This is how you can start with web development

– Open your system
– Open chrome
– Search "w3 schools HTML" on google
– Read some articles
– Open notepad(editor)
– Write HTML code
– Save file as index.html
– Open file in browser
– Congrats! You just created your first webpage 🎉
— Pratham (@Prathkum) July 2, 2021

Windows 11 + Raspberry Pi 4!

UFC best finishes of 2021!

AWS explained.

JHS Pedals giving us some history lessons.

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OneTab Links: Episode 17

Had a good week, solved some challenging problems, worked on some WordPress 5.8 bugs and did a full day fast!

Tech/Software Development

Ioniconf2021 happened this week, and I found some neat free templates for Ionic.
Paystack is now the preferred partner for merchants in Africa using WooCommerce.
Blocs 4 released some cool starter templates.
Wildbit announced location agnostic pay. A great remote work option.
Windows 11 was released! Looks pretty darn good!
This is a neat visual interactive Blockchain demo.
Hosting provider Xneelo launched their Managed WordPress hosting with some starter templates.
Vercel raised a big amount in order to expand!
Pretty cool free admin html template.
Interesting thoughts around WordPress theme lock in.

Life

How to build a shelving unit, I enjoyed reading this.
I’m considering purchasing this M-Audio interface unit. Looks like a solid option for home.

Treat your Ears/Mind

Really enjoyed “watching” this hehehe see what I did there?

Take 4 minutes of your day, sit back and watch this guy restore a beaten up Tissot.

Felt like a mini meditation session watching this. ⏱ https://t.co/p0DMuvPPfT
— Jason ⚽️💙🏆 (@JBagley) June 22, 2021

Windows. Turn it up to 11!

A great starter session on theme.json for building WordPress themes.

Always enjoy this track from one of my fave bands, Kutless.

A good primer on Github Actions.

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OneTab Links: Episode 16

I’ve been a bit sick this week with sinus allergies, so has my youngest so this week has been mostly in bed/watching Youtube while also trying to get some work done. I’m exhausted! But I did read some cool stuff!

Tech/Software Development

Wanna build an app? Don’t know how to code? Here’s 7 Courses to Build a No-Code Startup.
A new WordPress course came out, “Building Block-Base Themes” – I might take this just to check it out 🙂 Perhaps I should giveaway a course?
There’s some good design resources in here.
A twitter thread on 10 free Udemy courses. Not sure how long this will stay free for!
Pratham is treasure trove on twitter of coding resources. Check out these 6 Github repo’s for better CSS, as well as 5 beginner friendly websites to learn Javascript.
A Github profile Readme Generator.
Pretty slick Next.js Saas boilerplate called Bedrock.
Chris Lema wrote about creating a customer dashboard for your membership site.
Automattic acquired a private journaling app called Day One.
Interesting twitter thread on building full stack apps.
Windows 11 leaked. Not quite sure how I feel about these design changes yet…

Life

This is really cool if you like audio. Steve Jobs Stereo System from the iconic apartment photo.
While I’m not a close friend, Nic Smal is someone I run into every now and then. He’s a cool guy and I’m really happy for him that his show “Kiff” has been picked up by the Disney Channel!

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Quite a milestone I shared this week. 8 years ago WooCommerce passed 1 million downloads – what a crazy ride!

8 years ago today @WooCommerce 😉 pic.twitter.com/7MfJHL11Mf
— Jeffrey Pearce (@jeffikus) June 14, 2021

Wanna get some home recording done?

Don’t understand the differences between crypto? Check this out

I love Fender Strats. I own one. I have some strat copies as well.

Kindle Fire HD 10 looks awesome!

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OneTab Links: Episode 15

Lots of power cuts by us (in South Africa) this week, but it’s been a productive one nonetheless! Apple had their WWDC21 conference which saw some fun software things released!

Tech/Software Development

I’m eventually going to replace my iPhone 7 plus with the iPhone 12 mini, and then get some of the Moment Lens. This seems like an awesome case to get from the folks at Nomad that is Moment Lens compatible!
The internet died for a bit this week. Ok…maybe not all the internet 🙂 but some significant sites. An article debrief from Fastly.
Block patterns. They’re a thing. Submit your designs. Why are you still here??!!
Apple WWDC keynote in 23 minutes.
A colleague of mine made a weird WordPress theme. You should too. Here’s how he did it.
WordPress.com Managed Hosting, the best of both worlds.
A CMS market share analysis.

Life

Cool read on the rise of Calm, an app I use regularly for myself and my kids enjoy the sleep stories!
Next on my reading list will be these. I need to update my reading list…
Fathers Day gift guides. Buy me a coffee 😉 I’m a dad too!

Treat your Ears/Mind

Ship & Repeat.

Speed doesn't matter if you're consistent
— Pratham (@Prathkum) June 9, 2021

Get your hands dirty with Bootstrap 5!

Enjoyed these thoughts on the convergence/divergence of the 2 OS from Apple.

A nice summary of 1 of my fave books, 100 Side Hustles.

Casey Neistat is back!

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OneTab Links: Episode 14

Had a fun week 🙂 Bit later than usual today as I didn’t schedule the post! Ah well, I had the fun of pushing the publish button this time 😀

Tech/Software Development

Rad looking CMS with Firebase as the backend.
Some useful web creation tools from Creative Tim.
WordPress News gets a redesign.
Quite a solid free Javascript cheat sheet from Wes Bos.
If you want to learn Computer Science from Harvard for FREE, then sign up for CS50 on EdX this week!
I’m intrigued by this design system from WebPixels, looks really cool!
My team had some press from WPTavern about our WordPress theme, Blockbase.

Life

This villa in Cape Town is just stunning, insanely expensive to rent too!
Went back onto 16/8 intermittent fasting this week. Had a fun cheat day yesterday haha, Krispy Kreme donuts 🙂
Also, I had an impromptu coffee cupping experience at the local coffee roastery this week 🙂 was kinda fun to start the day that way!

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This tweet resonated with me;

Timeless. cc: @dpatil https://t.co/YJS0HVTKJV
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) June 3, 2021

Chilled morning vibes.

Some great items in this collection. I like the MOFT standing desk 🙂

Enjoyed these thoughts from Tim Ferriss.

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OneTab Links: Episode 13

13 Episodes…almost 13 consecutive weeks…I used to find blogging every week hard, but now I look forward to writing these up every Friday morning! 🙂 Hope you all enjoy the articles and videos this week! 🙂

Tech/Software Development

WordPress turned 18! There were some other interesting open source projects that also launched in the same year!
Really cool looking free Javascript course for beginners.
My fascination with Next.js continued, found this good read on using Next.js with WordPress for a headless CMS setup.
Brian Gardner of StudioPress fame is back in the WordPress game!
Chris Lema gives some sound advice on getting into the membership space using WooCommerce.
My team at work wrote a great article on the theme we’ve been working on.
Really cool to see some bleeding edge usage of WordPress tech.
Flutterflow for building/prototyping Flutter mobile apps looks super cool!

Life

I’ve been getting some feedback from my team this week, and have been working on refocusing in a number of areas. Here’s some interesting advice from Tim Ferriss about focus.
I’ve been thinking of creating a name for this series that isn’t tied to OneTab. Any thoughts or suggestions here?
I purchased a new TSA approved flight case for my strat and switched to new strings.

Treat your Ears/Mind

As a long time customer of Vimeo, I was super pleased for them to see them go public! A great thread on how it all happened;

Imagine trying to compete with YouTube and Netflix at the same time.

That's what Anjali Sud faced when she joined Vimeo 6 years ago.

She quickly felt their strategy was wrong, and brought it up in a meeting.

Today, as CEO, she took Vimeo public.

Here's what happened 🧵👇
— Ankith Harathi (@ankithharathi) May 26, 2021

Another good coding music session from the Google AMP team.

Now this is an epic car!

I’ve been thinking of tinkering with Crypto mining. Might try this out.

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OneTab Links: Episode 12

Had a pretty busy week at work, finally picked up my new passport, and read a bunch of cool stuff! I actually watched a ton of interesting videos on YouTube this week in the evenings to relax/tune out my work brain 🙂

Tech/Software Development

Google I/O has been happening, and there have also been some cool updates to the Web.Dev free learning resources.
An interesting take on a website builder across devices. Here’s another cool option that’s not a CMS.
Really good read on Coinbase recent move to React Native.
Want to customise the WordPress admin dashboard? Chris Lema wrote about some good options.
Codecademy put out a great React Native course. Fun fact, if you do the pre-requisite courses, it should take you around 55 hours to complete.
I was recommended to check out Vercel. Seems like a pretty good all around dev ecosystem. Might just entice me to properly learn React 😀
Native web tool CapacitorJS from the folks at Ionic released v3.
Some real gems in here -> 20+ Mac apps. Quite a few I hadn’t heard of!

Life

I still want to buy this analogue notebook set.
I experimented with intermittent fasting since my week long (1 meal a day) fast last week. Trying out the 16:8 approach going forward, but failed hard this week. Too much snacking!
Want some awesome desk accessories? Check out these from Oliur.

Treat your Ears/Mind

A reminder that code doesn’t have to just be your “job” – it can be fun too!

Friendly reminder that you can still pursue web dev as a hobby, and have fun learning new things, without having to chase the latest bleeding edge frameworks and libraries.

Go build something for the hell of it and enjoy the experience.
— andymci 🍁 (@andymci) May 17, 2021

Creepy but soothing

Poetry performed.

Not sure how to buy coffee? Watch this.

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OneTab Links: Episode 11

This week has been super fun, we had a division meetup at work, and it was great to see all my colleagues and focus on that rather than our regular work. It helps build relationships among colleagues, and gives us a chance to take a break from the regular fast pace that we work at.

Tech/Software Development

The wildly popular UI starter kit, Bootstrap, released version 5 recently! I’m curious to see how many WordPress dev’s use this over Tailwind going forward.
If you are a WordPress theme developer, join us for a conversation about Universal Themes.
If you are an Ionic mobile developer that uses React, this is a great set of starter designs.
CC Search has officially joined the WordPress open source project! It’s now called Openverse.
If you lead a group of engineers, this is worth a read about mistakes as a manager.

Life

Crypto had some fun dips the past few weeks. I’ve been using AltCoinTrader, what have you all been using?
I got back into casual gaming last week, I’ve been playing Call of Duty on my iPad Pro. Quite fun!
I bought some bourbon, Woodford Reserve, and made this variation of a winter Old Fashioned. I also added a Maraschino cherry to make it extra fancy 🙂
I mentioned on Twitter, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Future of Forestry lately.

Treat your Ears/Mind

Interesting thoughts, application in many areas of life, not just code.

Put a UUID on it. Put a timestamp on it. Put a version on it.

You won’t regret it.
— Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis) May 9, 2021

My alma mater…this is what was lost in the recent fires.

This is an epic dual OS desk setup!

Interesting perspective on money.

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OneTab Links: Episode 10

I had a pretty busy week, taking a full week off (last week) means that the first day back is about catching up and a lot has happened at work that’s kept me busy!

But I did manage to find time to read and check out some cool stuff! 🙂

Tech/Software Development

Big news in the payments space in South Africa, Paystack have launched! They are owned by Stripe who have long been on the list of tools that South Africa developers have wanted full local support for.
CC Search joined WordPress core and will in the future be known as Openverse. This will be awesome for searching for GPL compatible images for your site!
Need some more free icons, well, here’s some new ones for you!
I’m still fascinated by the idea of coding on a iPad 🙂 This time, VS Code on an iPad!
A great read on decoupling WordPress.
You should follow my favourite weekly design news site, Speckboy. They just so happen to have shared the same icon library this week! 🙂

Life

I like whisky, and I’m keen to check out this local whisky library soon!
I’ve been doing a lot of reflection lately, and finally getting into a good prayer life routine. This resonated with me this week.
Also, my passport is ready for collection after last weeks eventual successful application! 🙂