ZigPress @zigpress@mastodon.technology

Just had my first client #zoom meeting (as opposed to Skype, Signal, Hangouts, etc). The meeting went fine but I can now say with some conviction, and a minor expletive, that the Zoom Linux client is absolute shit.

Want to know how to build a good website? Don't build one that is a blank page when #javascript is disabled.

There's nothing quite like advance notice of a client penetration test to wake you up on a Saturday morning...
Check Cloudflare firewall settings ✔️
Check NGINX custom configs ✔️
Check .htaccess rules ✔️
Check WordFence settings ✔️
#wordpress #pentest

I wonder how many people have realised that DuckDuckGo is actually a better search engine than Google?

We've released a new free #WordPress and #ClassicPress #plugin.
"ZP Cookie Notice" allows you to easily inform users that your site uses cookies and helps you comply with the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations.
It's a fork of Cookie Notice by dFactory which has recently been sold and is now one big upsell for a commercial service, complete with full-page admin ads.
Try out ZP Cookie Notice today!
https://www.zigpress.com/plugins/zp-cookie-notice/

You know what code framework you should use for your next project?
Whatever works for you.

You know what programming language you should use?
Whatever works for you.

You know what build tool you should use?
Whatever works for you.

You know what DNS service you should use?
Whatever works for you.

Ignore the preachers.

Finally ripped the Materialize CSS & JS library out of the only project I ever used it on. Goodbye to endless hacks, absurd limitations, weird workarounds and JS conflicts. Hello to bespoke CSS & JS and freedom to code properly.

Today we were offered a front end development gig for a British company involved in advertising fraud prevention on mobile apps. However, its product is based around deep user tracking so we said no.

For anyone who saw our recent toots on #fosstodon, please note that the #mastodon #migration process (moving our followers here) finally worked!
It seems that after adding the old account as an alias of the new one, you have to wait *48 HOURS* before logging out and in again (both accounts) and triggering the migration.

Did you catch our recent post about migrating a developer's desktop toolset from #macOS to #Linux?
https://www.zigpress.com/migrating-developers-desktop-macos-linux/

#introductions #hello
ZigPress is: web design, development, optimisation & support. We're ClassicPress & WordPress experts and love building custom plugins. Mobile & Desktop apps too. Founded in 2005.
We've moved here from Fosstodon. We like FOSS but want our fediverse platform to be more generalist.
If you'd like our owner's personal Mastodon handle, please DM.