I’ve been a web developer for 25 years, and I’ve used dozens of REST APIs. Yet, it wasn’t until I started researching for this post that I realized how much I’ve missed, despite all that experience. This post provides an overview of REST APIs with some recommendations regarding when to…

The last couple of Twitter Takeovers have discussed elements of “Web3,” but this week, we started at the beginning to talk about everything it entails. I kicked it off with this question: Which fostered some really great responses: This lead to another question, though:

This week’s Twitter takeover was all about NFTs, non-fungible tokens. Non-fungible token - Wikipedia A non-fungible token ( NFT) is a non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain, a form of digital ledger…en.wikipedia.org Of all the topics we’ve covered, this is the one I knew the least about, so I was very grateful for some knowledgeable people taking part. The first question I asked was intended to get the lay of the land…

WordPress is famous for the number of plugins and themes it has available. The free plugin repository on WordPress.org has over 59,000 plugins available, and there are over 9,000 free themes available. At first blush, this may seem like a boon to software developers. All that free code! Yet at…

Last week’s Twitter Takeover was about Creative Commons, which allows a person creating the media to decide what other people can do with that media. Using Creative Commons Licensed Media One of my very first questions was whether or not designers are using Creative Commons licensed media these days, and the answers were similar…

This week’s Twitter Takeover was all about AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated content on websites. I knew some about it going into the chat and had some assumptions and expectations that turned out to be quite wrong. First, I expected that either there were many groups working on this project, OR…

Last week, I once again had the pleasure of taking over Camber’s Twitter account. This time we talked about a recent ruling in Germany that stated that calling Google Fonts over http (the most common way to use them) is not in compliance with the GDPR. …

“Headless WordPress” is a trending buzzword these days. As a fairly new technology, it’s constantly changing and growing. So how do you get started? What do you need to know to understand if Headless WordPress is right for your business? Let’s start at the beginning. What is Headless WordPress? Let’s start with Headless Website…

Recently I took over the Camber Creative Twitter account and had a great discussion about GraphQL. Before this discussion, I had read a bit about GraphQL and used it briefly in some personal projects, but had never dug really deep. …