Transformation Stories #4 A New Podcast Interview With Me (Rob Larsen)

Check out yours truly on an episode of Atlas Systems’ Transformation Stories.

A hands-on leader and change-maker with 20 years of experience, Rob Larsen remains at the forefront of software-led innovation – in financial services and the larger enterprise world. In this all-new conversation with Atlas Systems, Larsen offers insights into finding the right pace for transformation, keeping stakeholders on board without promising too much, and rethinking his own personal approaches to getting things done and interacting with the world.

Tune in for this great conversation with an industry-leading author, tech champion, and all-around thought leader!

In it I talk about the web in 2005, in 2011 and share general thoughts on digital transformations of all types.

If you run a web/tech podcast and want to talk to me- let me know. I really enjoy the process and love talking about this stuff, still.

HTML5 Boilerplate v9.0.0 Released

That took a while! This release features a ton of changes. We removed Modernizr, Normalize.css, Babel, Internat Explorer support, Google Analytics and the server configs. We also swapped out Parcel for Webpack.

Here’s the full Changelog:

  • Removing tile images #3023
  • Add Prettier #3011
  • Remove Modernizr #3002
  • Drop Normalize.css #2960
  • Create WebPack build to ship with the project #2650
  • Sets package to private by default #2888
  • Removes Babel and upgrades our gulpfile to use ES Modules #2831
  • Farewell Internet Explorer! #2773
  • Remove apache-server-configs/.htaccess #2779
  • Moving docs out of src and dist #2655
  • Replace Parcel with Webpack #2641
  • Add SVG Favicon #2554
  • Remove Google Analytics #2547
  • Rename master branch to main #2583
  • Remove humans.txt #2584
  • Add a template repository #2391
  • Remove plugins js #2346
  • Rename CSS file #2342 and JS file #2341

Want to Contribute to a 57,000+ Star GitHub Repo? You Can Help Translate Front End Developer Interview Questions

Are you interested in getting some open source experience? Maybe it’s a goal for you at your job this year or maybe you just want to give back to the community. Whatever your reason, the Front End Developer Interview Questions repo is looking for help updating the translation of the interview questions into 33 different languages.

I’ve created 33 separate issues for each of our supported languages. Some of those languages are extremely out of date. Others have been updated regularly. Whatever the state, I’d like to get them all in sync with the current list of questions and then figure out a method for keeping them updated going forward.

If you’re a native speaker or are fluent in any of the languages we support please consider helping out. The only technical skills you need are markdown editing, although you will need to be aware of technical terms in order to properly translate the text.

Thanks in advance.

I Have to Migrate Seven Domains to WP Engine in 9 Days

My long-time (23 years!) host is shutting down suddenly and forcing me to do something I’ve wanted to do for many years now and really never had the time- move from my old-school host to modern WordPress hosting… I’m actually excited by it since it’s going to give me some new tools to simplify the management of all of these sites and might get me to do a redesign of one or more of these sites, which would be fun.

That said… 9 days! So far it seems like it’s going to be possible. WP Engine offers a nice migration tool and once that’s run, for four or five of the sites, it’s just a matter of switching over DNS. Some of the sites are a bit more complicated but I think even those sites will be okay. It’s not like it matters! They’re pulling the plug on the 14th either way.

I’ll update here as I go through the process.

I actually have some book news to share, soon, as well. Maybe that post will be on the new host…