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Footnotes #456

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Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya…

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Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya Kaminsky has been brought on board with Automattic to work on Tumblr as Director of Engineering, Ads. Automattic credits a new partnership with Hunt Club for the hire, no doubt one of several sources…

Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…

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Dan Knauss
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about…

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…

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FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex Denning and Iain Poulson have officially launched FlipWP, which is being labeled as a “new private acquisition marketplace for WordPress.” 💸 Iain, fresh from his sale of Plugin Rank to Awesome Motive, notes in…

An excellent business-related discussion in Post…

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Dan Knauss
An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, "How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?" 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always…

Kevin Ohashi shared the results of…

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Kevin Ohashi shared the results of his latest (2021) WordPress Hosting Benchmarks — and he has hauch a new website dedicated to his annual reports. WooCommerce hosts get their own section and separate benchmarks. Plans from different hosting companies are…

Javier Casares makes the case for…

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Javier Casares makes the case for why hosting companies should install the PHP-intl extension. Instead of hacks, "we gain the possibility to use a lot of functions that can make our life easier" and "improve the way we develop to…
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