Location: Crystal Springs Beach Hotel
Year: 2017
Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
“Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs” is one of those quick and easy guides to the modern world of JavaScript, written for people who learned to code in the language back in the 90’s and now have to come back or manage those hipster kids who use JavaScript as the only solution to every problem.
As the article tries to stay brief and simple, it doesn’t go into many different corners of the JavaScript language. Instead it focuses on the package management with bower, npm, webpack, etc.
Don’t Design Your Emails
I do hate HTML emails with passion. They are always too heavy, often bloated, render horrible, and just plain annoying. I miss the old good days, when email clients were warning users that their signature was too long, spanning more than 4 lines. Today, everybody is sending out HTML emails whether they need to or not. Whether it’s for the signatures, corporate branding, or the “marketing value” or the “professional look”.
Finally, there is someone on my side of the fence, who actually tested the effects of HTML emails and suggests that plain emails are more efficient even for the marketing purposes. Read the whole thing – “Don’t Design Your Emails“, especially if you are involved with email marketing.
The plain email—which took no time to design or code—was opened by more recipients and had 3.3x more clicks than the designed email.
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The plain, unstyled emails resulted in more opens, clicks, replies, and conversions, every time.
Replies to welcome emails were tripled. Cold emails were getting 30-35% open rates and 3% conversion rates, which is incredible.
Phonephobia (vol. 1)
My good friend Slava Dyrdine has finally published his first book of drawings. You can buy a paperback edition from Amazon for only $15. If you are into art and moody things, you’ll love having a copy of this at home or in the office. It also goes well as a present.
Vim after 15 years
“Vim after 15 years” is yet another one of those “my Vim configuration review” posts by someone who has been using Vim for 15 years or so.
As someone who is also a long time Vim user, I have to say it’s quite common to review your configuration once in a while and remove some outdated bits which made it into plugins and Vim core, update plugins to newer versions, and replace plugins with newer alternatives.