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Front-end Developer Interview Questions

A list of helpful front-end related questions you can use to interview potential candidates, test yourself or completely ignore.

The Intrinsic Value of Blogging

Matt Mullenweg blogs on something I’ve been thinking about for a while too. My thoughts aren’t distilled yet, but this does resonate with me plenty. I think I have been writing either for the first or second person lately, not for both at the same time.

[…] write for only two people. First, write for yourself, both your present self whose thinking will be clarified by distilling an idea through writing and editing, and your future self who will be able to look back on these words and be reminded of the context in which they were written.

Second, write for a single person who you have in mind as the perfect person to read what you write, almost like a letter, even if they never will, or a person who you’re sure will read it because of a connection you have to them (hi Mom!).

WordPress to Jekyll Exporter

IMDb 500 error page

I’ve been using IMDb for years now, and I don’t remember the site ever being down, broken or inaccessible. Today, however, for the first time ever I’ve seen IMDb’s 500 error page. Here is how it looks:

The front page still works – probably available from cache or something – but any movie page that I am trying to access throws the error 500, which is an internal server issue. Hopefully, it’ll be fixed soon.

WordPress Plugins : Youtube Channel Gallery

This is mighty useful for people who have a YouTube channel with plenty of videos, which they want integrated with their website. Here is just one of the example screenshots, that demonstrates that you can use thumbnails, titles, and descriptions together.