Articles Tagged maintenance

Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you can put logic.

Let’s look at a special example so you can see what I mean. Say you’re making a website for a music venue. The most important part of the site is a list of events, some in the past and some upcoming. You want to make sure to label them as … Read article “Where Does Logic Go on Jamstack Sites?”

On the web, we have the opportunity to do work that fixes things for people. It’s fascinating to me how different the scope of those fixes can be.… Read article “Levels of Fix”

Every year about this time I see articles going around reminding people how to update the copyright on their websites. Usually somewhere in the footer. You know, a line like:

© Copyright 2007-2019 CSS-Tricks

I am very absolutely not a lawyer, but this is how I understand it:

• You don’t actually need that if your goal is copyrighting blog posts. Blog posts are copyrighted (in the United States) the second you publish them, with or without a copyright notice. You

Websites have a tendency to decay all by themselves. Link rot, they call it. Unpaid domain name registrations. Companies that have gone out of business. Site owners that have lost interest. What’s sadder than a 404? Landing on a holding page of a URL that used to exist, but now has fallen into the hands of some domain hoarder after it expired, hoping someone will pay a premium to get it back.

That stuff is no fun. But what … Read article “Decaying Sites”

Recently, I had to dig into the topic of code deprecation in JavaScript. I feel like this topic gets less coverage even though it may a play key role in certain projects, especially when working in bigger teams or dealing with external APIs.

In JavaScript-land, I don’t know of any true industry standards for deprecating JavaScript. It could be different per any team, library or vendor.

That’s why my goal here is to sum up my findings and thoughts on … Read article “Approaches to Deprecating Code in JavaScript”

Open source software is thriving. Large corporations are building on software that rests on open collaboration, enjoying the many benefits of significant community adoption. Free and open source software is amazing for its ability to bring together many people from all over the world, and join their efforts and skills by their interests. … Read article “An Open Source Etiquette Guidebook”

I was talking to a brilliant engineer friend the other day who mentioned they never get to build anything from the ground up. Their entire career has consisted of maintaining other people’s (often quite poor) code.

In a perfect world, we’d all get to write code from scratch, it would work perfectly, and we would put it into a bin in the sky, never to be looked at by anyone again.

We all know that’s not how it works. Code … Read article “On Style Maintenance”