I am a human web developer from Montreal and the the technical lead for Global Voices. I am responsible for developing and maintaining our various sites, which mostly run on WordPress.
I've been building websites since 2003 and have spoken about web development and WordPress at events like WordCamp (San Francisco, NYC, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa) and ConFoo (Montreal).
My rarely updated blog is at jerclarke.org, my photos are on Flickr and my cats are very very soft.
Latest posts by Jer Clarke from March, 2018
Facebook Instant Articles: Thou shalt re-scrape thine articles after important edits
TL;DR: If you update a published post the Facebook version will be out of date, so you need to use this Facebook Debugger tool to “re-scrape” your posts if any important changes are made. THE STORY: Facebook broke their plugin and I had to prove it to them An un-announced...
GV is Preserving the Web in Amber and Why That's Great News
TL;DR: Amber will make sure that when we link to something on GV, it will be available for readers in the future via. Archive.org, even if the original URL stops working! Hi all, I am Jer, the Technical Lead for Global Voices. Today I want to tell you about our...
