What Makes a Post Related?

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Over the past couple of months I’ve been asked the same question multiple times;

How do you determine related posts?

My default answer would have been: We’re basing this on multiple factors including title, content, categories and tags. While this is true, I thought it would be good to do a detailed post on how we’re determining what posts are related to each other.

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Bubbles and Brass

Somewhere last year I decided I needed to start working on something fun that had nothing to do with WordPress. It’s not that I don’t like WordPress anymore or that I’m moving away from it, it’s that I’ve worked with WordPress full time for years now. Where I used to work with other languages and/or frameworks before, this became less and less over time. And when I finally started Never5, the WordPress bubble was at an all time high.
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Polyfilling Fetch and Promises

For a new project I’m working on, I’ve chosen Preact to handle the frontend. Preact is a Fast 3kB alternative to React with the same ES6 API. So far I’m very happy with choosing Preact but that’s a story for a different blog post. Having never worked with ES6 before, choosing Preact also introduced me to cool new functions/concepts like fetch() and Promise. But web development wouldn’t be web development without browser support issues now would it?
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Connect to MySQL on your Vagrant Machine

I’ve been working on setting up a Go server in vagrant today and one thing I ran into was the lack of phpMyAdmin. Because it’s a Go server there’s no PHP and phpMyAdmin needs, surprise, PHP.

I’ve used MySQL Workbench in the past for remote database management so I figured I’d just use that instead of phpMyAdmin. Connecting to my vagrant box turned out to require a bit more work than simply entering the IP address and port though.
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