"The leadership that should be defending and advancing the open web is too busy fighting to do either ... This isn’t just a WordPress problem. It’s a symptom. The open web’s biggest institutions aren’t focused on the existential threats."

Joost de Valk@joost.blog · 4mo ago

I wrote a new post on what to build next: joost.blog/defending-op... Would love to hear your opnions!

WooCommerce's support system has gone down the inevitable route to enshittification. So far the AI bot has sent me links to documentation pages that don't exist, recommended using deprecated hooks, and decided that I want a cancellation and refund when I didn't even mention either of those words.

Damn, so close...! A perfect score on a new WordPress site launched today thwarted by the cookie consent plugin's annoying JavaScript.

I've been writing PHP for over 20 years but still learning new things. Today's handy discovery is that you can pass multiple variables to isset() and it will return true only if they are all set.

When I'm not building websites one of my favourite things I do is designing The Dartmoor Collective books and zines. I'm *really* proud of 'Flow'. If you love art / photography / landscapes / poetry and want to support Dartmoor artists, please grab a copy from dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...

Dartmoor Collective@dartmoorcollective.org · 10mo ago

We're delighted to announce the publication of our new zine, Flow. It's by far our best and biggest publication yet, featuring 60 pages of work from 35 Dartmoor visual artists exploring the theme of flow across a diversity of styles and mediums, interweaved with the words of writer, Kirsteen McNish.

I've been thinking about doing this for a while now. This article might be the catalyst that finally makes me actually do it.

I Deleted My Second Brain

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

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This is my favourite thing to see on a Monday

Living life on the edge by deploying to production at 5.25pm on a Friday

Just received an invitation to tender for a website build with a budget of "0-£10k". Very tempted to put a section in my proposal outlining what I would offer for £0, consisting of an entirely blank page.

Introducing Autoblue, my new WordPress plugin for Bluesky! 🦋 Autoblue will be available for download later this week, and allows you to automatically share your WordPress posts to Bluesky, and display likes and replies from Bluesky on your site. autoblue.cc (more in thread 🧵)

Autoblue - Easily add Bluesky to your WordPress site

Autoblue automatically shares your posts to Bluesky, saving you valuable time and effort and engaging your audience.

autoblue.cc