Find your place in the world with 3 magic words
February 12, 2020 | Luke Johnson
Use what3words to change the way you navigate the world, and never again forget where you parked your car.
Calculating relative time in PHP
February 5, 2020 | Luke Johnson
A simple function to help you calculate time strings in human words.
Surfing Behind the Veil: Why it might be time to guard yourself with a VPN
January 31, 2020 | Luke Johnson
How to get into coding
January 16, 2020 | Luke Johnson
You don’t need to be good at math. It doesn’t matter if you are young or old. All it takes is the willingness to keep trying.
What to do with all those photos?
January 10, 2020 | Luke Johnson
Take the work and worry out of photo storage by putting them on the cloud.
Design in the Wild: A Bank Branch Built on User Experience
December 13, 2019 | Luke Johnson
The best way to design a good user experience is to think through the work a user needs to complete, and to automate whatever you can.
Think your website is easy to use? Ask a 6 year old.
November 15, 2019 | Luke Johnson
The things we make are only ever as good as the bounds of our limited imaginations. Inviting people into the creation process will only ever make the final product stronger.
Close the loops to end your week with a clear head
November 1, 2019 | Luke Johnson
A weekly practice to help keep you standing upon, and not buried beneath, the snowbank of your life.
How to stop Select2's jumpy behaviour
October 10, 2019 | Luke Johnson
A fix for the jump-to-top behaviour when clicking on a Select2 select box.
A Content Guide for Church Websites
August 14, 2019 | Luke Johnson
How to create content that will pave the way from your website to your church's front door.
Treat your users right: Give your website a mullet
July 3, 2019 | Luke Johnson
Impress your users with your empathetic ability to think through their experience of the tasks you ask them to perform.
Some code for kids on the road
June 23, 2019 | Luke Johnson
How to use PHP to access and work with another website's HTML.
Simplify your nonprofit’s communication with cloud email (for free!)
May 10, 2019 | Luke Johnson
Say goodbye to the days of spurious email contacts, and hello to a new day of heel-clicking digital fun.
Multi-point maps with Google Maps Javascript API
April 26, 2019 | Luke Johnson
Embed customizable maps into your website with Google Maps Javascript API in four (fairly) easy steps.
Speak in your own voice because the world needs to hear YOU.
April 14, 2019 | Luke Johnson
No one has lived your life, no one else has your particular perspective, and no one else can speak from your unique experiences. Write the way you write. Write from what you know.
Ten years on a road paved with code
February 20, 2019 | Luke Johnson
Every once in a while, it’s important to pause and remember how you managed to get to where you are. This year marks my 10th year as a web developer.
What's the big deal about HTTPS, and why it matters for your website
January 14, 2019 | Luke Johnson
With so much of our lives conducted on the internet these days, why risk doing anything over an unsecured connection?
The Beneficence of Email Filters
January 4, 2019 | Luke Johnson
How to stop the noise and take control of your inbox
Make this year "The Year of the Cloud" and never lose a file again
December 18, 2018 | Luke Johnson
Hello, student. I’m writing to you because I love you, and because I want you to break free from the tyranny of failing computers and lost files. It happens. You’ve laboured all semester. Exam time is approaching. And then, in an all-too-predictable moment of frustration on the knife-edge of insanity, your computer refuses to start, and your entire semester’s work is gone.
The accidental history of the "Codigo" name
November 19, 2018 | Luke Johnson
How Codigo and codigo.ca came to be my business's identity.
The new wacky world of domain names
November 12, 2018 | Luke Johnson
With over 1,200 new domain extensions, you can think more creatively about your choice of domain names.
Why I code
October 29, 2018 | Luke Johnson
Writing for the Web
October 23, 2018 | Luke Johnson
Make your voice heard in the textual hurricane of the modern web.
Mobile-friendly vs. Mobile-first
October 22, 2018 | Luke Johnson
How to create your own custom domain link shortener
October 18, 2018 | Luke Johnson
With some basic PHP, MySQL, and HTML
Bring order to your work life with OpenPhone
July 10, 2018 | Luke Johnson
Defrazzle your life's lines of communication by opening a new one.
Getting work done without getting lost in the digital sea
April 9, 2018 | Luke Johnson
Everyone has their own work style, but the most important thing is to find systems that enable you to work freely and confidently.
How mini golf taught me to think about user experience
July 21, 2017 | Luke Johnson
Blackhawks and Bears: Leaving Post-Evernote Diaspora
July 8, 2017 | Luke Johnson
Safeguard your digital life, and live footloose and fancy free like Kevin Bacon
May 9, 2017 | Luke Johnson
The Internet is deeply integrated into our lives. We need to attend to cybersecurity simply because of how much of our lives are connected to cyberspace.
Development dreams in the making
February 23, 2017 | Luke Johnson
As a church kid, I've always wanted to help church-governance teams work better. And now here's my chance.
An interview about entering the web industry
July 19, 2016 | Luke Johnson
A friend recently interviewed me about what it takes to get into the web industry. In case it's helpful to anyone else considering a career in web development, here are my responses.
Put your users first with responsive design
July 11, 2016 | Luke Johnson
Take advantage of the flexibility and opportunity afforded by the modern web. Be available to your audience wherever they are with a design that puts them first.
Design for a hospitable and headacheless experience
April 27, 2016 | Luke Johnson
No one knows your company’s processes like you do. Layers of commonly shared assumptions empower your team to work quickly and intuitively. However, if your team fails to translate these assumed processes for the customer, your customer might be in for a frustrating and flummoxing interaction.