Tag: UX
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Cacheable Requests for Remote Content
TLDR: proxyUrl requests are un-cacheable, this is a terrible Developer Experience. When fetching remote Activities, Objects or Actors with the ActivityPub API we use a few endpoints. First, we might fetch activities directly from our Inbox endpoint, this loosely translates to a users Home feed. But to represent these Activities in a meaningful way to…
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Everytime a SaaS makes you embed a code snippet Wapuu cries
I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve seen paying customers be offered no other choice but a javascript snippet to embed on their site, like it’s 1999 and we’re still crafting HTML files by hand. The OEmbed specification has been around since 2008, and is a wonderfully simple idea: A user should only ever…
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Alert: UX regression
This has to be one of the most annoying UX ‘regressions’ of recent history. The Alert was previously only triggered if there were unsaved changes on the page… this now happens even after hitting save/publish. UPDATE: This is actually an issue with MonsterInsights plugin! #WordPress