Absolutely wild WordPress hacks here - update your WordPress sites ASAP! This is going to be a growing problem as hackers use AI to find new and exciting ways to attack WordPress. thehackernews.com/2026/07/expo... github.com/Icex0/wp2she... #wordpress

Exposed Hacker Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites

An open WP-SHELLSTORM server exposed tools, logs, and target lists naming 1.4 million sites, with researchers validating 25,195 compromises.

thehackernews.com

Saw this at the weekend - a real wake up call. Thought it was presented really well by Chris Packham chatting to everyday folks about the short clips from the experts www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

National Emergency Briefing | The UK’s leading climate and nature experts brief MP's on the risks, impacts and solutions to the climate emergency

nebriefing.org

Staggering numbers here 😮 Nice site design though & built with Kirby CMS ( @getkirby.com ) - a much leaner option than WordPress investinginclimatechaos.org

Investing in Climate Chaos

Institutional investors hold $6,500,000,000,000 trillionin coal, oil and gas companies. We track who holds what and make that data available to everyone.

investinginclimatechaos.org

Working on a simple page builder for Grav CMS v2, for those small business sites that don't need the complexity, update overhead (and now AI slop) of WordPress #gravCMS #webDev

Excited to see this "open_slate" tablet project from Brax - a modular repairable tablet that supports various operating systems including Android Open Source and Linux 😀 www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

open_slate: A Powerful and Private 2-in-1 Tablet by Brax Technologies PBC - Indiegogo

Meet open_slate: a poweful 2-in-1 tablet with modular design, native Linux and Android support and hardware killswitches.

indiegogo.com

@ecotalk.bsky.social service was fantastic today. Barely on hold then a lovely lady fixed my billing issue 👏 EcoTalk is an example of what's possible when companies don't just chase shareholder returns, great work @dalevince.com

Just grabbed a bunch of Miniml refills from Ora Designs in Long Eaton - zero waste shop and hand crafted wooden bits for your home www.instagram.com/ora.wooden.d...

Some nice open source resources for design work here mindfuldesign.xyz/toolkit/intro/

The Mindful Design Toolkit – Mindful Design Toolkit

Get deep into the weeds with the Mindful Design Toolkit; an open source collection of workshops, templates, design files and documents.

mindfuldesign.xyz

I live and work from my narrowboat Thin Lizzy, and she now has a solar setup that powers my work day ☀️ byintention.co/sustainable-...

Sustainable web design powered by solar - Intention

Now our work computers are powered by solar, so your web design is even more planet friendly! Click to find out more.

byintention.co

How we removed all 3rd party tracking for a healthcare client - alternatives to Google fonts, Analytics and reCaptcha byintention.co/switching-to...

Switching to zero 3rd party tracking for a healthcare client - Intention

Here is how we stripped away the bloat of modern web development to create privacy compliant, high-performance websites for a healthcare company.

byintention.co

The MMC Repair Café is a free community event, managed by the Fix it Group 23 and located at the MMC Café, focused on repairing things. thefixitgroup23.com/mmcv-repair-...

If you're sick of the animated gifs in the WordPress plugin installer screen, this stops them 👍 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anima...

Animation Policy - Chrome Web Store

Run animations only once, or disable animation completely.

chromewebstore.google.com

If you're having trouble importing WordPress sites to LocalWP on Ubuntu 24 with a 'libaio' related MySQL error, this will probably fix it community.localwp.com/t/unable-to-...

Unable to install on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS due to missing dependency

Hello all, Yes, I was able to get this working on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by following the steps provided by @aldrick. You’ll need to install the following packages to satisfy all dependencies: libtinfo5_...

community.localwp.com

Docker didn't make any sense to me and Docker Desktop kept filling my drives up. Portainer (community edition) finally helped me get to grips with it! www.portainer.io/resources/ge...

LocalSend is an Airdrop alternative that works cross platform. Working great for me on Mac, Linux and iPhone localsend.org

Breaston repair cafe 7th of March - jewellery, watches, small electricals, sewing and bikes breastonrepair.cafe

Found out why I dislike dark mode aside from it being harder to design well - I have an astigmatism like 50% of folks hlockeux.substack.com/p/why-dark-m...

Why dark mode causes more accessibility issues than it solves

Dark mode. Isn’t it marvellous? All cool and trendy and accessible and sustainable. Or maybe not…

hlockeux.substack.com

Outputting web pages to PDF using JS = 50% elation and 50% shouting at the screen

Just migrated a client site from WordPress to Grav CMS - getgrav.org - and while it was a learning curve, it's a much better fit for their small, rarely updated site. Pageload is faster and no more WP updates required!

Grav - A Modern Flat-File CMS

Grav is a Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS.

getgrav.org

🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!

What are datacentres doing to the UK’s 2030 clean power goals? Good points about moving our grid away from fossil fuels vs just enabling more AI datacentres... www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/what-ar...

What are datacentres doing to the UK's 2030 clean power goals? - Green Web Foundation

thegreenwebfoundation.org

Lol bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

Someone's trash is another person's web server.

bogdanthegeek.github.io

Free version of 'Prime Mover' worked perfectly to split out a WordPress site from a multisite install (And they seem to love planes 🤷‍♂️) wordpress.org/plugins/prim...

Prime Mover – Migrate WordPress Website & Backups

The simplest all-around WordPress migration tool/backup plugin. These support multisite backup/migration or clone WP site/multisite subsite.

wordpress.org

Affinity design/illustration/photo suite is now free to use and had over a million downloads in a week - a real alternative to Adobe's price gouging monopoly petapixel.com/2025/10/30/a...

All-New Affinity App for Creative Pros Is Completely Free for Everyone

Affinity is upending the professional creative software space.

petapixel.com

Put ZorinOS on a 2016 Macbook Air and it's fantastic - modern design, Bluetooth keyboard just worked and apps easy to install 👌 If your old Mac or Windows 10 PC isn't getting OS updates any more, Linux could keep them running for longer. zorin.com/os/

Zorin OS - Make your computer better.

Discover the alternative to Windows and macOS designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting.

zorin.com

This piece suggests Meta is dragging its heels on reducing the (very large) number of scam ads on its services because they're concerned it will materially hurt revenue (the article estimates they make as much as $16bn a year from scam ads) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

[🔉Open Letter] We join EDRi and 125 organizations in raising concerns over the forthcoming #EU digital omnibus proposals. Now is NOT the time to give up hard-won protections for digital human rights. Read the letter 👉 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

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Venice AI copywriters aren't messing around 😮

With Apple and Microsoft's greed pushing millions of laptops towards landfill, I keep as many as I can alive with Linux. Already rescued about a dozen (most went to local schools) and have a Lenovo and 2017 Macbook Pro to do next. byintention.co/laptop-phone...