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Ad networks’ grip on news outlets

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Brian Krogsgard

Ben Thompson's latest post tackles how web pages -- especially web pages driven by advertising and ad networks -- are bloated. Ad networks have gained huge adoption amongst big news websites, which largely cannot manage to sell their own inventory,…

Growth in the French community

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Jenny Beaumont
Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.

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.…

A future API

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Ryan McCue
Ryan McCue, the lead developer of the WordPress REST API, imagines the year 2020, when the REST API is mature and in WordPress core. He tells us stories of some of the fun things that are possible.

What is Code?

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Brian Krogsgard
"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

Effects of freemium, money back guarantees, and free trials

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Brian Krogsgard

Two conversion articles I read this weekend have stuck with me through the day on Monday. First, Indy mobile app developer Shevub Hussain describes how moving from a paid-only model to freemium for his (really handy looking) Comfy Read app…

2015 internet trends

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Brian Krogsgard

Kleiner Perkins does a yearly internet trends report that I've enjoyed for a few years now. The 2015 report is out and it's really interesting. I learned quite a bit -- it's a whopping 197 slides -- about trends in…

The slowness of the WordPress admin is a liability

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordPress admin is not fast. In fact, due to a variety of reasons, it can become quite slow even for relatively normal sites. And even a brand new install doesn't have completely "snappy" page loads on the admin. Put it…

(Almost) nobody uses social sharing buttons on mobile

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Brian Krogsgard

In a new post on Moovweb, they highlight that only 0.39% of mobile users use social sharing buttons. That's quite low. And it doesn't get that much better for desktop. It's a compelling argument to not have them at all,…

Chrome 41 making a big step for faster page speeds

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Brian Krogsgard

From the Chromium blog, one of the more impressive performance improvements I've seen yet: Ideally every part of a user's interaction with a browser is fast, starting with loading web pages. Chrome is introducing two techniques called script streaming and…

The WordPress REST API

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

WordPress lead developer changes

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Brian Krogsgard
Yesterday and today there has been some significant news for the WordPress project. We now have two new lead developers, and two long-time leads are stepping down after outstanding tenures assisting with steering the ship.
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