Sophie Koonin listed "everything she googled in a week as a professional software engineer" in an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google things then you "aren't a proper engineer." I wish some people in the…

Lee Butterman estimates that Let's Encrypt now provides SSL certificates "for almost 30% of web domains," according to his analysis of 350 million SSL connections. If this is even roughly close to the true number, it is amazing. 😲

The days of "like" counts and similar metrics for publishers might be coming to an end. Mike Allton notes this is the reality of social networking's evolution. I think it's a good step in the right direction. 👍

It was nice to hear Carole Olinger has joined the WP&UP team as the "Head To WCEU" Crew Chief. 👏

Peter Suhm notes that Branch — a continuous integration service for WordPress developers — now supports WP Rig — "a modern WordPress starter theme."

Google is making additional changes to "nofollow" links by splitting it into three declarations: rel="sponsored" rel="ugc" rel="nofollow" According to Google's Webmaster Central blog, "there’s absolutely no need to change any nofollow links that you already have," but they do say…

There's a new, official Creative Commons plugin for licensing your content on your WordPress site. 🔌