Category: Web Development

Koko Analytics – An open-source analytics plugin for WordPress

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Koko Analytics – An open-source analytics plugin for WordPress that does not use any external services and respects your visitors’ privacy.

Koko Analytics

view a demo of Koko Analytics here.

Features

  • Plug and play. After activating the plugin, stats will be collected right away.
  • No external services. Any data about your visitors never leaves your site.
  • No personal information or anything that could lead back to a specific visitor is tracked.
  • Fast. Koko Analytics can handle thousands of daily visitors or sudden bursts of traffic without breaking a sweat.
  • Option to not use any cookies while still being able to determine returning visitors and unique pageviews.
  • Option to exclude certain user roles from being tracked.
  • Option to automatically delete older data.
  • Built-in blacklist to filter referrer spam.
  • Compatible with pages served from cache.
  • Compatible with AMP powered pages.
  • Completely open source (GPLv3 licensed).
  • GDPR compliant by design.

Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP

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http://composingprograms.com/pages/11-getting-started.html

From HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465234:

This is the textbook used for the introductory CS course (CS61A) at Berkeley. The course material is available at http://cs61a.org (The course uses Python 3, Scheme, and SQL). There are some neat projects (students are working on building a Scheme interpreter now)

Previous Hacker News Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3491142

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141996

Overall, SICP in Python 3 is first rate. I highly recommend it to anyone wanted to improve their sophistication with Python and programming in general.

The exercises and demonstrations in each section quickly build from an elementary introduction up to powerful examples accompanied by clear explanations. I especially like the explanatory diagrams.

Thank you to the authors for your craftsmanship and for making it available on-line.

Nord – An arctic, north-bluish color palette.

TheSmithy

https://www.nordtheme.com/

Nord consists of four named color palettes providing different syntactic meanings and color effects for dark & bright ambiance designs.

It has been created for clear, uncluttered and elegant designs following a minimal and flat style pattern.
For syntax highlighting it aims to ensure an undisturbed focus on important parts of the code, a good readability and a quick visual distinction between the different syntax elements.

All colors are numbered from nord0 to nord15 where each palette contains a different amount of colors. The naming convention preserves the compatibility for terminal color schemes and allows an uncomplicated use as base for such.

Color Palettes

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Before listing the tools, read this article: Building your color palette
In short: almost every online generated color palette consists of a limited number of colors. However, you cannot build an application or website with just 5 colors. You Need:

  • Greys – In practice, you want 8-10 shades to choose from
  • 1 or 2 Primary color(s) – you need a variety (5-10) of lighter and darker shades to choose from
  • Accent colors – it’s not uncommon to need as many as ten different colors with 5-10 shades each for a complex UI

So what you actually need is something like this:

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