BuddyPress 4.2.0 is out. This important…
Dan Knauss
BuddyPress 4.2.0 is out. This important maintenance and security release addresses a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in addition to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Christie Lenneville and Patrick Deuley explain…
Dan Knauss
Christie Lenneville and Patrick Deuley explain how white space "killed" an enterprise app, and how you can increase data density without diminishing design aesthetics. Here's a good thought: "Enterprise designers can take a lot of great cues from consumer design,…
Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia
Dan Knauss
Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.
Building Multidots, with Anil Gupta
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode I talk to Anil Gupta about his journey and philosophies building Multidots -- a company doing enterprise web development work all over the world with more than 100 employees.
WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this week, but sadly the PHP error protection handler slated for this release will be held for WordPress 5.2 instead. Some potential security issues cropped up in the implementation, and the team wanted to play…
Just another migration story
Brian Krogsgard
This past week it was necessary for me to spend time migrating a website and helping deploy a new design for it. It was a frustrating and humbling experience that also reminded me just how much of a challenge these…
An Interview with Ernst-Jan Pfauth of De Correspondent
Dan Knauss
Ernst-Jan Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent, which is launching this year as an English language spinoff of the Dutch news site De Correspondent.
Kyle Chayka has an interesting thinkpiece in…
Brian Krogsgard
Kyle Chayka has an interesting thinkpiece in The Nation about the ways content management systems have shaped and will continue to influence the business and politics of media organizations. With public opinion turning against social networks while "the market grows for…
Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains…
Brian Krogsgard
Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains Inc., recaps 2018 with an eye to his company's goals, business practices, and products. It was a busy year apparently and, in Brad's assessment, their most productive.
Remembering Dean Allen
Dan Knauss
Dean Allen's vision for Textpattern and his code influenced WordPress at a critical time in its development.
John Maeda published his Design in…
Dan Knauss
John Maeda published his Design in Tech Report for 2018 with an interactive slide version and a straight text version. John focuses on three concepts: classical design, design thinking, and computational design. One of his "key observations" is "Design isn’t just…
With 2018 behind us and the…
Dan Knauss
With 2018 behind us and the new year begun, many people are posting "Year in Review" or "Looking Ahead" reflections. 🎊 It takes some time to think through these surges in the community's collective learning, but it's well worth it.…
iThemes has a brief interview with…
Dan Knauss
iThemes has a brief interview with Justin Tadlock about web hosting horror stories 😱 and freedom of speech.
We’ll fix it later
David Bisset
"[W]e all need help getting comfortable with the uncertainty of building software," muses Matthew Ström. To that end, Matthew offers these thoughts about finding the balance between the ideal of shipping beautiful code and the deadlines we actually have to meet. He…
Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a…
Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a deep analysis of its 2018 data that goes well beyond simple load testing at many WordPress hosts. The goal of this new analysis was to determine whether paying a higher price for hosting buys…
Mel Choyce explains how to design…
Brian Krogsgard
Mel Choyce explains how to design a Gutenberg block for restaurant menus. Mel provides a Sketch file, and if you want to use the design to build a restaurant block, give Mel credit and a link in your plugin readme.txt.
