This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. You can sign-up to our awesome weekly... The post Weekly News for Designers (N.325) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

On the Delicious Brains site they have a new post that makes a suggestion to the WordPress plugin developers out there: stop supporting legacy versions of your plugins and move on. I recently saw this tweet from Danny van Kooten which reminded me of one of the many major gripes developers have with WordPress - supporting ancient PHP versions: "STOP SUPPORTING PHP 5.2 IN YOUR NEW PROJECTS. No one using it is actively installing plugins, trust me." Yes, (unbelievably) WordPress still supports installations of PHP 5.2.4! As plugin developers, we can't change that over night but we have the power to stop supporting these legacy versions in our plugins where we have control over the codebase. He talks about how, despite the fact that the WordPress project itself strives for ultimate backwards compatibility, it's just not run on older versions of PHP as much. They share some statistics about the number of WordPress installs on each version of PHP starting with v5.2. The results show that the overwhelming majority are on v5.6 with a split between <=5.3 and >=7.0 for the remainder. They also share some statistics from their own plugins finding that the >=7.0 takes the lead. The post then shares some of the reasons for making the upgrade to only support newer versions of the language including security updates, speed and developer experience. It finishes up with some of the steps to follow to inform users of the intent to deprecate old support and when to make the move.

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Laravel 5.8.14 is out with a job-based retry delay feature. Visit Laravel News for the full post. The post A New Job-based Retry Delay Comes to Laravel 5.8.14 appeared first on Laravel News.

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When did you take your last vacation? For many of us, it was probably a long time ago. However, since quite a while, I stumble across more and more stories about companies that take unusual steps vacation-wise. Companies giving their employees a day off each week in summer or going on vacation together as a team building event instead of traveling somewhere just to work. But while there's a new generation building their dream work environments, a lot of people still suffer from very bad working conditions. They work long hours and are discriminated or harassed by colleagues or their managers. And just this week, I heard that many company owners are desperate because "Generation Y" doesn't want to work long hours anymore.The post Web Development Reading List #182: IPFS Wikipedia, New Webpack CLI, And CSS Grid Breakout appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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I've worked on websites for several years, both professionally and for side projects. One day, I reflected on the fact that all of my web development education had come from actually making websites. In most cases, I'd have a specific problem, Google how to solve it and learn something new in the process. I wondered what I was missing by never learning HTML in a comprehensive way. Forget CSS and JavaScript. I'm just talking about raw HTML. It might seem silly to go back to such a basic aspect of web development after a decent amount of experience, but it's easy to become overconfident with a skill just because you know enough to do a few useful things.