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Thinking about blockchain

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

My thoughts aren't fully formed on the matter yet, but I've been thinking a lot about blockchain technology recently. Yes, my interest was piqued due to the massive price rise in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies' values; but I…

Chassis is a virtual server for…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Chassis is a virtual server for WordPress that's been made available to the public while it's still in the early stages of development. It's an open source community project with commercial support from Human Made. With the Chassis Desktop interface you can…

MariaDB Corporation, the company behind MariaDB…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

MariaDB Corporation, the company behind MariaDB (a community-developed fork of the MySQL), announced a fundraising round of $27 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB). This brings the total raised to around $67 million. They plan to use the new…

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up blog the release of WP Docker, an open source Docker configuration optimized for local WordPress development. WP Docker is meant to address shortcomings of running multiple VVV and Vagrant instances while providing greater flexibility…

Jono Bacon notices that GPL license…

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2017

Jono Bacon notices that GPL license usage has dropped (more than half since 2010) and asks why. His theory revolves around the increased growth of open source in business, and a "nervousness" around the GPL in the commercial world.

Google recently launched opensource.google.com, a new…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Google recently launched opensource.google.com, a new website for Google Open Source. The site features Google's programs, organizations they support, and a comprehensive list of open source projects Google has released.

JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 12, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Joe are joined by Zac Gordon, and the three of them discuss the state of JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context.

Riad Benguella recently announced on the…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Riad Benguella recently announced on the WordPress.com developer blog the launch of the Open Source WordPress API console. This is an application that allows you to make read and write requests to the WordPress.com API or the WordPress REST API…

The phrase “over budget” is naturally…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

The phrase "over budget" is naturally associated with government projects, but I found this case of Canada government ignoring a lower cost solution particularly interesting. The Canadian government went with Adobe, and since then the costs have gone from $1.95-million…

I enjoyed reading Jeremy Felt’s post…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

I enjoyed reading Jeremy Felt's post on what he's enjoyed about open source in 2016. There are some worthy posts and videos to examine, so it's definitely work a moment of your time to review his list.

Another really neat project from 10up…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Another really neat project from 10up is the SaaS version of their ElasticPress product. The tagline for ElasticPress.io is, "WordPress Search, Solved." It's fully hosted, and geared specifically for WordPress. It's not cheap (starts at $299 per month), and you…

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

Business

Automattic created a digital only advertisement geared toward the Super Bowl. When it was discovered, some folks thought it may air nationally, either during or around the game. I confirmed with Mark Armstrong of Automattic that it's actually a digital…

Shaping a vision of success

Jenny Beaumont

January 19, 2017

Planet

With the next edition of WordCamp Europe on the horizon, Jenny Beaumont finds herself thinking about event growth past and present, and about what success might look like for all of us in this new year.

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Sami Keijonen

January 7, 2017

BusinessDesign

Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

Hosting

I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

Facebook recently announced the open source…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Facebook recently announced the open source release of Yarn, a JavaScript package manager that provides a "fast, reliable, and secure" alternative npm client. According to the release, Yarn can install packages more quickly and manage dependencies consistently across machines or…

Thinking about blockchain

Chassis is a virtual server for…

MariaDB Corporation, the company behind MariaDB…

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up…

Jono Bacon notices that GPL license…

Google recently launched opensource.google.com, a new…

JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context — Draft podcast

Riad Benguella recently announced on the…

The phrase “over budget” is naturally…

I enjoyed reading Jeremy Felt’s post…

Another really neat project from 10up…

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

Facebook recently announced the open source…

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