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Troy Hunt explains what “hashing” means…

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Troy Hunt explains what "hashing" means for passwords, and what site owners mean if they say they "didn't encrypt your password but hashed it." It's a lot to digest, but Troy makes it easy to understand what password hashing is…

Ben Kuhn offers an excellent reminder…

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Ben Kuhn offers an excellent reminder that attention is your scarcest resource. Programmers and managers both make key decisions about when to devote energy and focus on a problem or project. Sometimes it's best to take a break or tackle…

Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful…

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Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful tips on how to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations. 🎨 The depth of this post makes it worth a bookmark even if you aren't building a visualization. I found it helpful…

Antonio Villegas ponders whether WordPress has…

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Antonio Villegas ponders whether WordPress has a "bright future." While the WordPress market share is currently on the rise, "the future of blogging (and its platforms) is today more threatened than ever." ⌛ Antonio points to two areas we should…

Mack Male details how he transferred…

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Mack Male details how he transferred his self-hosted WordPress blog to WordPress.com with WordPress Premium to start. Normally (at least in my world) you hear of the transfer from WordPress.com to self-hosted, so it was a new experience to hear…

Mark Krynsky shares his experience of…

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Mark Krynsky shares his experience of trying to replace the OceanWP theme and Elementor on a with Astra Pro and the block editor on an existing site. Mark looks at the cost factor, simplicity vs. complexity, and performance considerations. Mark…

Matt Zeunert from DebugBear attempts to…

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Matt Zeunert from DebugBear attempts to answer the question, "Is the web is getting slower?" Starting by interpreting the HTTP Archive data, Matt looks at how devices and the web have changed over the past 10 years and what those…

Michal Bugno writes about the hidden…

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Michal Bugno writes about the hidden cost of constantly shipping new things, using his experience in launching a company called Pulse. 💗 Michal shares some lessons he learned, like "no matter how much time you put into your product design,…

Ohad Eder-Pressman recently wrote an “open…

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Ohad Eder-Pressman recently wrote an "open letter" to Matt Mullenweg on the subject of JamStack. This seems to come in response to Matt's comments in an email exchange with Richard MacManus in which Matt didn't find favor with the technology…

I recently stumbled upon Jamhur Mustafayev’s curated…

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I recently stumbled upon Jamhur Mustafayev's curated list of private businesses publicly sharing their expenses. This is a good place to see the tools used by startups and small private companies and what they cost. Jamhur's curating goes pretty deep. Some…

Jamie Tanna has some good thoughts…

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Jamie Tanna has some good thoughts about the dangers for developers using online tooling sites (like jwt.io) and online JSON validators. I agree — using an online tool always runs the risk that critical information might be stored or intercepted,…

Appropos of Nothing Matt Mullenweg posted…

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Appropos of Nothing Matt Mullenweg posted on Twitter on August 21st that updates to the WordPress mobile app have "been absent" because "we were locked by App Store." The reason: Apple wanted in-app purchases to be available, although the app…

On August 25th Dave Rodenbaugh completed…

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On August 25th Dave Rodenbaugh completed the sale of two WordPress plugins: Business Directory Plugin and Another Classified WordPress Plugin. The buyers belong to Strategy11 — Stephanie Wells and Syed Balkhi. Strategy11 is part of WPBeginner Growth Accelerator companies. 🤝…

According to this recent update, a…

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According to this recent update, a WordPress 5.5.1 short-cycle maintenance release may appear on September 1st to deal with some "particularly inconvenient" bugs. 🐛

StudioPress recently announced it is rebranding…

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StudioPress recently announced it is rebranding the popular Atomic Blocks plugin it acquired from Mike McAlister in 2018 as Genesis Blocks. There is a free version still, and the pro version of Genesis Blocks is available in the Genesis Pro…

Carolina Nymark notes that she has…

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Carolina Nymark notes that she has updated the WordPress block pattern guide and added new tips and a resource page at FullSiteEditing.com. This is a tremendous resource; check it out!

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