Let's Encrypt recently posted a progress update, and results so far are impressive. They've crossed 5 million certificates since December 2015 and have helped push HTTPS on the web from 39.5% to 45%. It's going to be harder to get to…
Pantheon recently launched a new program that gives New Relic's pro service for free to all of their sites. That's potentially highly valuable for customers that want New Relic support.
Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock's article covering PHP design patterns and architectures. He also covers common patterns employed in WordPress.
Daniel Bachhuber is moving forward making WP-CLI more independent. He is actually looking for support in "non-code" roles, so reach out to him if you feel you can help. If you didn't catch his presentation at WordCamp Europe that covers…
This looks like a cool WordPress plugin from Mickey Kay: auto-archive your content using The Wayback Machine. Archiver utilizes WordPress’ native functionality to detect changes to content types like posts, pages, users, taxonomies, etc, and then automatically generates a snapshot…
Matt Medeiros has new plugin-focused site called PluginTut, and the launch seems to have gone well. It recently posed this in-depth look at the Kanban plugin which creates a dashboard to manage content marketing for a site. Related: the author of the…
Github posted it's 2015 Transparency Report. If you're wondering how many time they've been targeted by the government or take-down notices: 500+ takedown notices and 12 subpoenas.
If you're a WordPress developer wanting to learn more about internationalization, then Carrie Dils has the post for you. She shares some basic principles to get you started with i18n.
I like Scott Bolinger's post on writing better Javascript. He's not out to make you "a WP Ninja" but reviews common mistakes and offers a few good tips.
Here's a helpful and interesting look at the policies and procedures for Code of Conduct violations at WordCamp Europe. If you're involved in event organization, check it out. You'd be surprised that these types of actions do periodically have to be enforced.