ByDan Knauss
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I enjoyed reading Jeremy Felt’s post on what he’s enjoyed about open source in 2016. There are some worthy posts and videos to examine, so it’s definitely work a moment of your time to review his list.
Faces of Open Source is a site that aims to photographically document the people “behind the development and advancement of the open-source revolution.” It highlights foundational figures and influencers from Unix, WWW, BSD, and other significant projects. 📸
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It’s an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook’s “Instant Articles” feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it’s a not HTML but like HTML implementation of web pages that supports limited web features, and importantly…
WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.
Joshua Benton runs a small newsroom of four full time staff. They publish around fifteen items a week on Nieman Lab, their WordPress based website. Their newsroom is different than most newsrooms though, because they mostly publish about other newsrooms. The Nieman Journalism Lab was started by Josh in 2007, and today is a highly…
DrupalCon Seattle 2019 took place this past week. There is a quick roundup of the main highlights of the event and a video of Dries Buytaert‘s keynote. Dries focused his comments on contributor diversity in open source projects, which is a topic WordPress developers should find significant to them as well. I highly recommend reading…
In November, Envato announced that they were looking for a new Wptuts+ editor on their blog. The position requires considerable skill with WordPress and effective communication. Japh Thomson has done a fantastic job heading up the Wptuts+ blog effort for two years, but as I learned then, he was preparing to move on into a new…
