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Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here’s…

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2019

Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: The "Cost of JavaScript 2019" video (and blog post) from Addy Osmani at the PerfMatters Conference 2019 shows the main costs of processing JavaScript are download and…

Preserving the Wilderness

Dan Knauss

July 12, 2019

BusinessPlanet

The web is a sacred wilderness, and it deserves preservation. What role can open source communities play? And how does it contrast with the monopolistic tendencies of the "tech giants?"

Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Hosting

Everyone's Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux "coming soon") that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites…

📺 I have two videos for…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

📺 I have two videos for you this week that are well worth a look: Kat Marchán

WordPress 5.2 was released as scheduled…

Dan Knauss

May 13, 2019

Security

WordPress 5.2 was released as scheduled on Tuesday. Thanks to Site Health, PHP Error Protection, and the minimum PHP version bump (to 5.6.20), this has been one of the best-received updates that I can remember. 🤗 There were over 327…

WPCampus released the results of the…

Dan Knauss

May 13, 2019

WPCampus released the results of the much-awaited Gutenberg accessibility audit. Tenon LLC conducted the tests and produced the report at the cost of $31,200. On top of donations raised by WPCampus, Automattic covered about two-thirds of that total. The testing…

If you follow PHP development, you…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

If you follow PHP development, you might be interested to know that a JIT ("just in time") engine is coming to PHP 8. This change will present some challenges, but overall the benefit will be increased performance. ⏱️ There isn't…

Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

Design

In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…

There’s a proposal for a new…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2019

There's a proposal for a new type of plugin for JavaScript-only single blocks. The aim is for people to be able to search for blocks and install them directly from the Gutenberg editor. I think this is an exciting concept.…

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after a discussion about a recent Trac bulk edit. The bulk ticket edit affected approximately 2,300 tickets spanning all components that had not been modified in at least two years. The bulk action set all…

The Next Web broke a GitHub…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

The Next Web broke a GitHub news embargo by accident when they announced Github's unlimited free private repos. The author of this story, Matthew Hughes, vented on Twitter that it was WordPress's fault for immediately publishing his post because it was…

Dave Loodts started an interesting discussion…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Dave Loodts started an interesting discussion on paid freelance contributors to WordPress, partly in response to the rise in contributors who are employees of WordPress companies. Dave contends that freelance volunteers bring an "honest and neutral" voice to WordPress, and their participation can…

WordCamp US will be happening next…

Brian Krogsgard

December 1, 2018

WordCamp US will be happening next week — officially December 7th, 8th, and 9th — for the second year in Nashville. If you are not attending, free livestream tickets are available. There's a certain feeling in the air that this year's…

Considerations for eCommerce merchants, with Andrew Youderian of eCommerce Fuel

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2018

DraftHosting

In this episode I discuss eCommerce and considerations for eCommerce merchants, with Andrew Youderian of eCommerce Fuel.

It’s funny to me seeing how…

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2018

It's funny to me seeing how WordPress often wants to mirror functionality of other platforms, and sometimes you see other platforms wanting to mirror WordPress. Gabor Javorsky started an interesting discussion in Slack around a Laravel project to add filter…

The History of the Web, and WordPress’s 15th Birthday — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian is joined by Jay Hoffmann -- the owner and curator of The History of the Web, a timeline and history of the web -- and they discuss the project, as well as WordPress's 15 year arc of history.

Video and Podcast Picks 📹 Here’s…

Preserving the Wilderness

Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…

📺 I have two videos for…

WordPress 5.2 was released as scheduled…

WPCampus released the results of the…

If you follow PHP development, you…

Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

There’s a proposal for a new…

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after…

The Next Web broke a GitHub…

Dave Loodts started an interesting discussion…

WordCamp US will be happening next…

Considerations for eCommerce merchants, with Andrew Youderian of eCommerce Fuel

It’s funny to me seeing how…

The History of the Web, and WordPress’s 15th Birthday — Draft Podcast

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