We declare WINTER OVER. After a long and often harsh season — punctuated by persistent cold, stubborn snow and ice, and a late-season chill this week— the pattern ahead has shifted. Link to full story: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Homer needs a new home! My friend and his family are currently fostering Homer, a 4-mo old puppy, who is a really good boi as evidenced by these pictures (but my friend affirms it). If you’re in the DC/NoVA area, check out Homer’s adoption page: www.lostdogrescue.org/animal/homer...

WooCommerce patterns for Ollie are here! The 2-man team at OllieWP has spent the better part of a few months grinding away at releasing a better paradigm for WooCommerce in Gutenberg blocks. Give it a look, give them some love (or better yet — money)! olliewp.com/ollie-for-wo...

Hey #WordPress folks — if you're a theme tinkerer or work in a freelance/agency setting where you've relied on WPEngine/StudioPress's now-defunct pattern manager, I've got some good news for you: I've dusted it off and given it some much-needed updates! github.com/tomfinitely/...

Oops, I did it again. Built a Claude-powered SERP Optimizer — point it at a domain, it pulls your metadata and generates smarter titles, H1s, and meta descriptions with a live Google preview. No setup. Runs in the browser. claude.ai/public/artif...

Got a shout in Gutenberg Times this morning… Have you given Block Zapper a whirl? #wordpress tomfinley.com/stop-rebuild...

Uploading an image to a site or ESP isn’t the same as optimizing it. Some platforms handle it well. Others quietly degrade your work. I broke it down, plus a simple workflow to get it right before ever hitting upload prufcreative.com/a-smarter-im... #WordPress #EmailMarketing #ImageOptimization

From my analytics I can tell my Block Zapper post has broken containment, but what do you mean I have to wait a day to figure out where this happened? tomfinley.com/stop-rebuild...

Remember when they said Bluesky would never work?

Remember when Subtle Patterns was the 🐐?

I heard we're bringing back textures and skeuomorphism this year... #webdesign

Ever strip a WordPress block pattern down to zero just because the custom attributes were a nightmare to clear? There's a tool for that. Block Zapper lets you zap specific attributes while preserving what you actually want to keep — images, backgrounds, structure. tomfinley.com/stop-rebuild...

GitHub - tomfinitely/block-zapper: A powerful container block that allows you to group other blocks and reset their custom properties with a single click.A powerful container block that allows you to group other blocks and reset their custom properties with a... https://tomfinley.com/?p=174373

Hit a wall for a couple days on my #WordPress website relaunch where Safari (MacOS and every iOS browser) was italicizing an Adobe Typekit variable font, that should've rendered as upright.

Hey web nerds. Have you noticed unusual web traffic in your analytics from Lanzhou, China and/or Singapore lately? Well, it's not just you... www.wired.com/story/made-i...

@jacobsberg.bsky.social pursuant to your interests… 🙃 www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...

If you see this repost this with your model of positive masculinity

I've really struggled with the new colours stuff in CSS but editing this series for Kevin has instilled a confidence I never thought I'd had. I'm even more convinced that designers need to be getting into CSS as a serious tool.

✨ I just published a new post, and it’s all about one of the most mind-blowing new CSS features: subgrid. Honestly, when I first heard about subgrid, I figured it’d be a convenient little utility. I had no idea it would solve one of the most longstanding issues I’ve had with CSS. 😮 Check it out:

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Is John Hamm literally in everything these days or is it just me?

11 years later and Sia’s “Elastic Heart” still slaps so hard… youtu.be/KWZGAExj-es

side point but the idea that if you make a human grade robot intellect it will do whatever you say without protest seems underexamined

Please never put in the paper we cost the shareholders money because sunk cost fallacy

I don’t care what anyone says, Daniel Craig was the best James Bond. Immensely complex, tortured from within, but he actually loved people deeply. A true, human character.

Updating my LEGO White House

Wild as hell I gotta take accountability for my actions and keeping working to be better as a person even though no one in any sort of power does that and the world is ending

Ah, vibe coding. Where would we be without it? It's tempting to install that "vibed?" #WordPress plugin you generated on your production site. Hold on, there, friend! You might want to test it first. speckyboy.com/test-ai-gene...

For months we followed what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI. "It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up" www.404media.co/what-happene...

✨ I just published a brand-new blog post about a modern CSS feature! But, honestly, I’m still on the fence about it. 😅 In this post, I’ll dig into the gnarly issue I ran into, and share three possible workarounds. Along the way, you’ll learn a bunch about the CSS cascade and specificity!

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Probably a dicey topic, but I used Cursor to vibe-code a complex #WordPress YouTube plugin that automatically displays multiple YouTube embeds from a user, channel, or playlist using InnerBlocks and the core WP Youtube oEmbed block. github.com/tomfinitely/...

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

🎶 Vapin’ in the boys room 🎶

What if Zohran Mamdani is the prophesied Joe Rogan of the left

I wrote about Brad Lander newrepublic.com/post/197324/...

Okay so I need to get a clip, but there is currently an ad for Better Offline airing nationwide on the radio where I call OpenAI a financial abomination, very funny to say that I was encouraged to put this ad out there too!

LOL let the pearl clutching commence (cc @jacobsberg.bsky.social @tiff.is)👇 www.axios.com/local/washin...

Yo @eve6.bsky.social, proof of life MF’er

My Dearest Wife, We rode the groovy vibes into battle at dawn yesterday….

The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.

If I want to learn to be a more agile and charismatic conversational _and_ public speaker, what are some objectively good (and free?) resources to use as my starting points?

You cannot stay in a poison swamp and not get poisoned.

$8.8T is the conservative value of open source—and most of it’s held up by overworked volunteers. Just dropped a post on what I saw at #OpenSourceSummit: FAIR, OSPOs, Gen Z, governance, and more. Feat. @marucchi.com & @joost.blog 👇 rogerwilliamsmedia.com/the-8-8-tril... #opensource #wordpress

jesus christ somebody's gotta stop this guy

in 2026 we're bringing back consequences

“Nononono… That’s a nasty nasty comment. The song is called ‘Total Obliteration of the Heart.’ TOTAL. 100%. Nobody’s seen a heart obliterated like that. It’s why they wrote a song about it. Eclipse? Nobody’s ever heard of eclipses.”