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Rich Tabor has posted his reflections…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

Rich Tabor has posted his reflections on 2019, which included joining GoDaddy and selling CoBlocks and ThemeBeans. His goals for 2020 are "to simply read more," "produce music," and "get involved with core Gutenberg on a deeper level." Rich predicts…

WordCamp websites now have more “app…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

WordCamp websites now have more "app like" PWA ("Progressive Web App") features. This means cached pages and assets are available offline, so if someone visits the schedule page and loses their internet connection they’ll still be able to load the…

Karolina Szczur explains how to get…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

Karolina Szczur explains how to get started with web performance by breaking down the most important performance metrics. 🚄 JavaScript is one of the main obstacles, according to Karolina: "Avoiding long-running tasks and blocking the JavaScript main thread is one…

🏕️ The inaugural WordCamp Asia is…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

🏕️ The inaugural WordCamp Asia is taking place on February 21-23 in Bangkok, Thailand. This will be the largest WordPress event in the region with around 1,500 people planning to attend. A live stream is being planned, so watch Twitter…

🎓 The next WPCampus is happening…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

🎓 The next WPCampus is happening July 15-17, 2020 in New Orleans, and a call for speaker proposals will be open next week.

Looks like some folks (Nick Hamze…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

Looks like some folks (Nick Hamze and Aajit Bohra perhaps) created a plugin that allows one to create memes using the block editor in WordPress.

WordPress developer Jonathan Bossenger shares his…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

WordPress developer Jonathan Bossenger shares his 2020 web development setup. He uses Firefox and Chrome along with PHPStorm and a wide selection of GUI and CLI tools (some of which might be new discoveries for some).

The Daily Stoic chronicles the “timeless…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

The Daily Stoic chronicles the "timeless art" of journaling. They offering practical tips on how to begin journaling: start small, use your journal to start and review your day, and how to use the bullet journal method. Perhaps most importantly…

Not directly WordPress related, but it…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

Not directly WordPress related, but it was amazing to learn that Instagram brings in more than a quarter of Facebook sales. Recently discovered as well that YouTube brings in $15 billion in revenue (more money than all of the ABC,…

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Video and Podcast…

Dan Knauss

February 5, 2020

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here's my video pick of the week: An interesting discussion over at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience…

Footnotes #381

David Bisset

February 4, 2020

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It includes an official tool to scaffold blocks quickly, a handy color tool for Group and Column blocks, updates to the link UI with RichText formats, prettier formatting, and more.

I have been enjoying Nick Hamze’s…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

I have been enjoying Nick Hamze's posts over at block.garden lately. They are short, "open thought" posts on WordPress and Gutenberg (editor) blocks. 🏡 Nick's latest piece talks about supporting blocks that may have been abandoned by developers: "I’m just…

WPEngine hosted its DE{CODE} 2020 virtual…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

WPEngine hosted its DE{CODE} 2020 virtual conference this week in a pre-recorded talks format but with speakers taking live questions. There's a nice selection of speakers — particularly Jason Cohen and Matt Landers on headless WordPress. There is video footage…

Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Jonathan Bossenger is preparing a course dedicated to automated testing for WordPress plugins. 🧪

Zack Bloom has concluded JavaScript Libraries…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Zack Bloom has concluded JavaScript Libraries "are almost never updated once installed." 😮 The oldest version of jQuery included in CDNJS is 1.10.0 — released on May 25, 2013. Through Cloudflare, it still gets "gets an average of 100k requests…