Episode 92
And welcome to our totally unspooky Halloween edition 🎃. We were joking about filling this issue with the creepiest websites, spookiest articles, most horrible plugins etc., but I think you'll find enough if you surf the web long enough. Feel free to send us your most ugly findings…
Kirby 4.4.1 Release
Kirby 4.4.1 is a patch release that fixes a few regressions we unfortunately introduced in Kirby 4.4.0.
New plugins
Our plugin directory has grown again, check out the following plugins:
Cloudinary Sync: Automatically push your media assets to Cloudinary when you upload them in Kirby.
Password Guard: Prevent unwanted access to your website with password protection.
Menu: Create structured menus from the Panel and easily render them in the frontend.
Meetups
The meetup wave this year is really blowing us away and it just keeps on coming.
Kirby Meetup Berlin
Thu, November 7, 2024 at 19:45 CET
This meetup takes place at the venue of the beyond tellerrand conference. As a special perk, participants have access to two btconf talks right before the meetup. See link for more details.
Made with Kirby
Articles
Kev Quirk shares his insights from a year of using Kirby CMS, detailing the enhancements he made to his website during this period.
"We use Kirby to implement complex multilingual, state-of-the-art websites, booking portals, interactive maps and much more. Why do we do this with exactly this CMS?" Read about their reasons on reinorange's blog.
In a span of just two weeks, Maurice Renck and his colleague successfully designed and launched a blog-style website using Kirby, as detailed in Maurice's blog post.
Farid Mésbahi shares how he built his own bookmark manager with Kirby. And speaking of bookmarking tools, if you don't want to build your own, there's also a Kirby-based paid tool you can use: https://bookmark.cards/.
Joshua Pangborn walks you through deploying Kirby CMS with Kamal 2, a tool that allows you to quickly provision a server and deploy a website or app.
Kirby is made for …
Need to convince your customers that Kirby is the right tool for them? We added a new project type "For artists" to help you with this task.
Certified partners
We truly believe that our partner program is all about building a strong network of reliable agencies and freelancers for Kirby. In each Kosmos edition, we will be highlighting three of our certified partners. Today …
If you would like to join our partner network, please submit your application using our application form.
During the past months, we already had two "Office hours" events with our Certified partners, with the next up on Wednesday. We can truly say that these events have been a great success, and everyone profited from them.
This & That
Jens Oliver Meiert shares some AI tips for web developers and their careers.
Ahmad Shadeed explains how to use display: contents to build more fluid layouts.
Can we do without a build process today? Max Böck discusses improvements in HTML, CSS and JavaScript that that might one day help going buildless.
HTML for people is an online book that teaches you the basics of HTML so you can build your own website without prior experience or coding skills.
Josh Comeau does a deep dive into JavaScript promises, in order to get a deeper understanding of what Promises are and how to use them effectively.
In this article, we'll explore how Render Delay can affect a page's Largest Contentful Paint score.
Adrian Roselli on using disclosures in fieldsets.
The AbortController API is particularly valuable when you need to manage the lifecycle of asynchronous operations, improving both performance and user experience by allowing for more precise control over resource management
Alex MacArthur provides a practical guide how to use S3 or R2 buckets for backing up self-hosted Plausible analytics data.
And last not least, a nice idea to force yourself to shut down your computer on time: The leave command 😂.