This looks like a great (and free!) Block Theme learning resource from @mikemcalister.com olliewp.com/lesson/cours...

I've had a busy couple of evenings. I've ported my website to @astro.build with a Headless Wordpress back end (Sorry Umbraco Peeps - I will definitely give it a go in the future) Oh, and I finally wrote a thing - davidbeesley.co.uk/posts/my-key...

When I first stated working in International Development, this is was one of the first things I remember being impacted by. In those days it was via a Gall–Peters projection map we had on the wall in the office.

Apparently, seagulls “dance” like this to mimic the rain and trick worms to come to the surface.

CSS Tip If you want to hide an element that has no children, it's tempting to reach for :empty. However, :empty doesn't work how you'd expect if there's white space or text nodes inside the element. Instead, use this: .your-element:not(:has(:first-child)) { display: none; }

Awesome presentation @keithdevon.com and @markwilkinson.dev at last nights @wpldn.uk.. I love how you build the section nav and the scroll animations. So simple, yet so powerful!

Great talk by @louisetowler.com on #a11y last night at @wpldn.uk. Louise share Indigo Tree's home-grown contrast checker tool, which has just about the best UI of any of (many) ones I've used previously. Thanks for Sharing 😎

Pretty cool. Shame there's no support for animation-timelime in Safari though.

See you there!

"First Look: Can Loveable.dev build a complex portfolio website?" from @jamiemarsland.bsky.social Interesting to make a cursory comparison of accessibility between the two... The AI version arguably slightly less bad than the original (but it's all React 😬). www.pootlepress.com/2025/02/firs...

Flexbox Labs is a visual tool that helps you create layouts using CSS Flexbox. I like such sandbox tools where you can play around without writing code. I think it’s important for designers to at least understand what flexbox can do. flexboxlabs.netlify.app/

This is cool, two of my favourite WordPress plugins have hooked up! Both have had major updates recently, making them a proper power-couple now. Move over Posh & Becks, Barak & Michelle, Elton and Kiki... S+F Pro & Generate Blocks are where it's at 😂

Another new client today totally unaware of the difference between WordPress OSS and wordpress.com. I wouldn't mind one jot if Open Source WordPress took on a new identity.

For the record, I do not recommend tipping your flat white over your Apple 'Magic' keyboard. It's glued together and impossible to disassemble to clean 🤬

An improved approach to calculating accessible contrast ratios is being considered for WCAG 3.0: ruitina.com/apca-accessi... As someone with a permanently skewed ICC profile baked into his firmware, I welcome the change!

Push notification from Lidl… I wonder if sales of their ‘USA’ range are a little down? 🤔

From the perspective of Brit, it's shocking watching the goings-on in the US. Is the strategy just to burn down much of what made America great? It makes no sense. I dearly hope it's the wakeup call we need as Europeans.

Wow

I've just had to log in to the Meta Business Suite. I feel like I need to undergo some kind cleansing of my soul.

Anyone using Brave browser on a mac having issues with your USB webcam running at low frame rate in Google Meet recently? All fine in Safari. Very odd.

Wishing all the best to those working for NGOs and local partners affected by the immediate pause of USAID funding by the Trump administration. Inconsequential in the grand scheme, but we just has some work cancelled as a result. The client described the action as feeling like the 'nuclear option'.

No sign of the frost today

I’ve been working with WordPress since 2006, and while I have—and will continue to—advocate for the software, it’s the people who matter most. This community is its heartbeat, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to stand with those passionate about shaping its future. 🙏

Never in my years around WordPress have I seen so many folks who build sites for clients openly musing about possible alternatives. The leadership may no longer care for 'the community' or 'the ecosystem', for whatever reason, but it's these two factors that, IMO, give WP its superpowers. It's sad.

This looks interesting. Another contender to challenge WordPress?

Robert Miles' 'Children' just popped up on my Spotify. Can't quite believe is was released 30 years ago this month 😱.

My manifesto for a better 2025: 1. No billionaire to be allowed access to the internet. 2. All techbros must have decisions signed off by a responsible adult. 3. All weapons capable of killing more than one being to be substituted with a basic Nerf gun, or feather duster (in the case of dictators).

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Is there an optimal resolution for sharing images in BSky? Uploading at hi res seems to result in horrific compression being applied (much more so than the bird app).

Took my walk earlier than usual this morning... distinctly frosty!

Design has a function/purpose. Art can exist for its own sake. Don’t use either as a justification for exclusion.

Please, plugin developers, include your product name or trading name in your recurring billing notifications. Non-technical book-keepers etc don't know what the heck 'Rocketgenius' is when they come to do reconciliation 🤪

Fresh MacOS install done. Desk (kinda) tidy. Been out for breakfast now both kids are back at school. Suppose I should do some actual work now.

Doctor and physio have instructed me to walk more… so my motivation it to take and share a photo a day. Here’s the first, from about an hour ago.

On the twelfth day of Devmas, my mutual sent to me: 12 coders coding, 11 pipelines running, 10 loading shimmers, 9 styles cascading, 8 breaking changes, 7 daily stand ups, 6 tests are flakey, 5 we-eb riiings! 4 callbacks passed, 3 code pens, 2 purple <div>s, And a <body> in a DOM tree.

Oh wow. Someone solved this date problem good and proper. Amazing job. Such a clean API too. getfullyear.com

Finally deactivated my Twitter account today, having joined back in 2009. Kinda therapeutic. (If you've had a apparently random follow from me just now over there, it is in fact me. I moved my old handle to a new account to keep it from being re-used and followed a few WP folks)

Discovered today that you can now secure any app with FaceID on iOS 18. Helpful with the proliferation of scrotes snatching phones while unlocked. Crucially, works with Mail. Simply long-press an app icon to enable.

I had not come across iotools.cloud before. Loads of online tools, generators, encoders/decoders. Nice!

Noooooooooooo! After 15 years of marriage, 10 as business partners, my wife has send me this for printing. I have failed in every conceivable way 🤣

Join us later today for our last show of 2024. #WordPress

Anyone having problems connecting to Loom today? Status page says it's up but it seems very much not to be for me.

anypalette.co claims to have 1m+ palettes and you can search by colors (#ff0000). You can tweak a palette once you find one, create and save ones you liked. #CSS

I'm at the point in the project where my Git commit summaries mostly read 'Block stuff' and 'More fixes for legacy CSS'

Things go from bad to worse... Who, in good conscience, can agree to this? (Yes, it's real)

Britney Spears' "OOPs I did it again" is a cautionary tale and an apology for overuse of object oriented programming in the 90s. The song came out in the year 2000. #facts #themoreyouknow #oop #programming #coding #software #object #britney

WordPress Contributors and Community Leaders Call for Governance Reform in Rare Open Letter

Thanks to @nickwilmot.com for the inspiration to create this one 👍

This is somewhat dramatised, but it's also an accurate explainer of my Sunday evening woes. Come on a journey with me as I - an experienced developer - dive into old WordPress theme code, find myself in an enormous tangle, and question my competence. rosswintle.uk/2024/12/im-n...

2002 was the year I first owned a digital camera. Perhaps it was the feeling of instant gratification that came from digital, but this was the photo that kicked off my interest in photography. I switched it into black and white using JASC PaintShopPro 7. #ShittyCameraChallenge