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Firefox 83 has introduced an “HTTPS…

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Dan Knauss

Firefox 83 has introduced an "HTTPS Only Mode" that works how you would expect: "[It] ensures that Firefox doesn’t make any insecure connections without your permission. When you enable HTTPS-Only Mode, Firefox tries to establish a fully secure connection to…

Joe Casabona says virtual events are…

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Dan Knauss

Joe Casabona says virtual events are changing the WordPress event landscape. He notes some advances in virtual events this year and predicts more "mixed" (virtual and in-person) events after the pandemic is over. This is not just "virtual WordCamps" but…

Ibis is a handy and new-to-me…

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Dan Knauss

Ibis is a handy and new-to-me PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF. 📗

There’s a very interesting Twitter thread…

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Dan Knauss

There's a very interesting Twitter thread from Hassan El Mghairi on his 10 takeaways from a lecture given by Randy Pausch. Pausch was a renowned Computer Science professor who got cancer and decided to give one last lecture on time…

Here’s a master list of landing…

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Dan Knauss

Here's a master list of landing page best practices, focused on how to optimize your pages for increased conversion. Each tip is from a professional in the field, and one of the names you might recognize is Thomas Griffin from…

Nice post here on Reddit from…

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Dan Knauss

Nice post here on Reddit from Mark Maunder the founder and CEO of Wordfence as he replies to the question of how people come up with their startup ideas: "So my site was hacked. I used to be a hacker…

Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has…

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Dan Knauss

Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has passed $1 billion in community earnings after 14 years of being in business. 💰 Sarah also gets into the controversy over Envato Elements, its subscription service which isn't sitting well with developers and authors…

Has someone recreated Slack inside a…

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Dan Knauss

Has someone recreated Slack inside a shared Google Sheet? It's hard for me to tell if this is real. Regardless, check out the site as it's pretty amusing. 😆

Yoast has created a page dedicated…

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Dan Knauss

Yoast has created a page dedicated to educating people about open source — what it is and how it provides "better solutions and a more inclusive society." This is a seriously detailed page including bios and snippets of information, some…

Good news: GitHub has reinstated the…

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Good news: GitHub has reinstated the YouTube video downloader youtube-dl that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool. 👏 More importantly, GitHub is formalizing a policy to evaluate complaints and also establishing and donating $1 Million (USD) to an open-source…

There is a call for speakers…

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Dan Knauss

There is a call for speakers for WordFest Live 2021 which happens online on January 22, 2021. 📅

🎁 Our big list of Black…

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Dan Knauss

🎁 Our big list of Black Friday & Cyber Monday WordPress Deals is back — and bigger than ever! Check out the long list of hosting, deployment tools, SaaS, themes, and plugins. 🔌🔌🔌

BRIAN’S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment…

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Dan Knauss

BRIAN'S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment on Comments Previously we've mentioned Jeremy Felt's ideas for how WordPress comments should work. They're really good, simple steps forward, and this is how we should be thinking about a core feature that ought…

When John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek…

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Dan Knauss

When John Blackbourn made a semi-tongue-in-cheek suggestion for a plugin that will email you regularly about draft posts you haven't published, David Artiss took him seriously and built a plugin that does exactly that. Draft Concluder (what a great name!)…

Leonardo Losoviz has written a step-by-step…

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Dan Knauss

Leonardo Losoviz has written a step-by-step guide on using Rector and GitHub Actions to downgrade a WordPress plugin by coding it with PHP 7.4 and deploying it to PHP 7.1. 👇

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