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Austin Parker hits a nerve with…

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Austin Parker hits a nerve with a bluntly titled post, "Virtual Events Suck" where he lays out all the reasons why the majority of online conferences offer a subpar experience. I agree with him on most, not all, points —…

Sally Strebel, co-founder of Pagely, opens…

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Sally Strebel, co-founder of Pagely, opens up space via HeroPress for a lot of insight and reflection based on her experiences with sexism in the corporate world — even at WordCamps: "I had to make the conscious choice to decide…

šŸ—£ļø Frederick O’Brien shares insights and…

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šŸ—£ļø Frederick O’Brien shares insights and reference materials that can help developers make their websites more voice-accessible: "Developers, designers and writers alike should be prepared for the possibility that their work will not be seen or clicked at all —…

Jo Franchetti, a Developer Advocate from…

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Jo Franchetti, a Developer Advocate from Microsoft, came up with an inventive way to better communicate with her mother, who is hard of hearing, while she visits her with her mask on. It's effectively a way to live caption yourself.…

Upcoming Events šŸ“† Wordfest Live 2021:…

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Upcoming Events šŸ“† Wordfest Live 2021: The third, fourth, and fifth round of speakers have been announced including Jamie Hill, Robbie Adair, Nestor Angulo Ugarte, Angela Jin, Sabrina Zeidan, Graham Armfield, AmyJune Hineline, Amanda Gorman, Simon Kelly, Naomi C. Bush,…

WordPress 5.6 (“Simone”) was released this…

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WordPress 5.6 ("Simone") was released this week. Props to the all-female lead team and the 605 volunteer contributors. They collaborated on nearly 350 Trac tickets and over 1,000 pull requests on GitHub. šŸ™Œ The 5.6 release has many enhancements, features,…

Here’s a piece from The Repository…

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Here's a piece from The Repository focused on Yoast and Whodunit and why they contribute to WordPress core as well as the features they’re pursuing. Some notable stats are mentioned in this post where Jb Audras breaks out the companies…

The next iteration of WordPress components/Gutenberg’s…

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The next iteration of WordPress components/Gutenberg’s design is currently being explored under the codename ā€œG2 Components.ā€ There is a roadmap here and an open issue about how to best approach integrating this into Gutenberg. This is certainly the cutting edge…

šŸ–„ļøĀ Over at the Automattic Design Blog,…

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šŸ–„ļøĀ Over at the Automattic Design Blog, Filipe Varela covers some tips for looking and sounding a bit more professional on your video calls. Why bother? Filipe gets right to the point: "Elevating the quality of your audio and video is…

šŸ¤ MailPoet and its team of…

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šŸ¤ MailPoet and its team of eleven have been acquired by Automattic to join WooCommerce: "WooCommerce stores can look forward to improved features to reach their customers in the near future. This is a natural continuation of WooCommerce functionality we…

⚔ Jennifer Wong explores the power…

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⚔ Jennifer Wong explores the power of web development outside tech circles: "Even simple websites and apps go on to make a huge difference politically and socially. We, as website builders, have the benefit that even in a global pandemic,…

Cory Miller brought this article to…

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Cory Miller brought this article to my attention. It's about the late Tony Hsieh of Zappos, one of Cory's entrepreneurial heroes. In the article, Lindsay Blakely delves into hard topics, like Tony's battle with depression and substance abuse. 😫 "How…

If I had a nickel for…

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If I had a nickel for every time I heard "PHP is dead" I'd be rich! Warrick Bayman seems just as frustrated: "It isn’t dying and it isn’t reaching 'end-of-life.' That’s it. No matter how much some people want it…

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