I have a few more stories I'll hold onto until tomorrow, as the release of 4.4 gives us plenty to read. However, if you're hungry for some good reads that don't require too much analysis, I've got you covered as…

Hey, a few of you made the local news in Philly.

Kelly Dwan has a React-based WordPress theme available for you to peruse, that should be a good base to get started if you are interested.

Weston Ruter has started a plugin he's proposing for core that adds settings validation and error messaging to the Customizer. This looks terrific (screenshots on the Github).

Ryan McCue posted on Make about new tools and oAuth updates for the WordPress REST API.

"There will come a day, whether we like or not, when we and the things we own are all API providers." David Berland theorizes how APIs will become "table stakes" and (obviously) thinks the WordPress changes are significant.

Milestones: The Story of WordPress was been largely finished in early 2015. Siobhan McKeown did an excellent job researching and writing a thorough history of the WordPress project to date, but the book languished on Github without direct attention for much of…