Who Needs Copy When You Have Lorem Ipsum?
Clearly, we are joking. But it is actually a good question. Doesn’t Lorem Ipsum do all the heavy lifting when laying out web content? It can, but the results and impact on copy might not work out in the site owner’s favor. Here’s why.
Tiny Boxes In The Cloud: Earthling Containers
The promises of the cloud were difficult to realize at the beginning of the decade, but they have become more achievable over time as the ecosystem of technologies associated with the cloud have matured.
Highly Recommended Reading/Viewing/Listening
Earthlings were asked to name a resource that they wish all of their colleagues would read, watch or listen to. Another way to phrase the question might have been “what learning will help make us a stronger team?”
WP-CLI—A Panacea for WordPress Developers?
Bekee’s first reaction to hearing about WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress was: “So what? It’s not hard to update plugins as it is!” But after a brief tutorial, she realized that she may never have been happier to be so wrong.
Earthlings Predict Tech in 2018
Happy New Year from Earthling Interactive! We asked Earthlings to share their tech forecasts, speculations, and predictions for the coming year.
Five Common Mistakes That Can Undermine Ecommerce Site Success
Companies that find the greatest satisfaction with their online store have been careful to consider how their ecommerce platform will integrate with the business as a whole.
HODL! HODL! HODL! Merry Cryptomas!
With the holidays coming up, company leadership thought it would be fun to gift staff with a token amount of bitcoin. A stroke of luck meant that our initial buy of $50 per person increased 70% in a matter of days.
Shopping for Bullets (no, not that kind)
Bullet journals may have a special appeal for developer/designer types. The opportunity to apply ordered logic in an analog environment, a framework for disciplined creativity, and the simple utility of the planning interface have made these journals hugely popular for lots of people, especially tech-creatives.
I Am A Strange Loop
Don entered the Strange Loop: “This was my first year at Strange Loop, and I knew going in that the talks were going to cover a staggering array of topics. The hardest part by far was deciding which to attend.”