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Don’t Need Another Hero ⚡ This…

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Dan Knauss

Don't Need Another Hero ⚡ This article in Scientific American by Zeynep Tufekci brilliantly uses Game of Thrones' difficult translation to television to explain how its author, George R. R. Martin, understands "sociological storytelling" as very few screenwriters do. Martin…

Matt on Gutenberg at WordCamp Europe

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David Bisset
The sixth WordCamp Europe is happening now on June 15-16 (it was preceded by Contributor Day on the 14th) in Belgrade, Serbia. As you would expect from a large WordCamp, the lineup is full of great talks given by a diverse group of…

Matt Mullenweg’s stand for the GPL against Wix

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Brian Krogsgard

You've probably heard about as much as you want to hear regarding Wix and the GPL issues surrounding their mobile app release by now. However, I want to help sift through the noise. First, some links: Matt Mullenweg's open letter…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

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Brian Krogsgard
This afternoon, I spent a few minutes playing with Server Pilot, after seeing is mentioned in Slack for at least the fifth time. Server Pilot offers a control panel and an API for managing WordPress installs on top of Digital…

If you’re interested in connecting your…

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If you're interested in connecting your WordPress site to Apple News Publisher, WPTavern has a good overview of how to do this with the Publish To Apple News plugin.

In my opinion, Ben Thompson has…

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In my opinion, Ben Thompson has the best take on the whole Apple backdoor thing. It's so ridiculous... I'm extremely disappointed with the US government.

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

Open source has reach, but no influence

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Brian Krogsgard

Steve Burge has an interesting post on his personal site on why he thinks open source has no reach, but no influence. Despite the widespread open source, we’re entering a world of closed platforms: Today’s iOS9 launch shows what incredible…

Send to Apple News from your WordPress site

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress VIP announced the launch of Apple News for WordPress today. The plugin was developed by VIP partner Alley Interactive, and released for VIP and for WordPress.org websites using the free plugin. It's on Github as well. This is awesome.…

Two CMSs, one pageload

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Brian Krogsgard

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. This may…

Give your WordPress client an Apple experience

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Japh Thomson
We're all familiar with the Apple ecosystem to some extent, even if we don't own any Apple products. We know it stands for polish, accessibility, and a complete solution. Carl Alexander wishes that the situation with WordPress hosting was more…

The Funnel Framework

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Japh Thomson

There's a really interesting write up comparing the success of Microsoft in the Windows-dominant era versus Apple in the mobile era called The Funnel Framework. It's really on point at the moment, and also mentions some other examples you'll recognise.…
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