I talk often about breaking out of walled gardens, that you don't have to be on corporate-web in order to be on the web. This is a fantastic article about the problem and how to (pretty easily) fight it. Well worth reading. Also, @strange.website is a rad human being. henry.codes/writing/a-we...

This Week in WordPress #366 This episode of TWiW covers the latest in WordPress, with a strong focus on AI advancements, new products, and features expected in WordPress 7. The discussion includes updates on community events, challenges with in-person meetups post-pan wpbuilds.com/2026/02/17/t...

this is fine https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833 > So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month. > I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

Always fun and informative! We got killed at Wordly by @michellefrechette.bsky.social too. I think she got more points than all of us combined.

Long-awaited from @stewartbrand.bsky.social 🛠️

We're looking for 15 women in tech from all over the world to interview live on International Women's Day in our livestream! Sign up on our site. Let me know if you have any questions. www.underrepresentedintech.com/iwd26/

"Shadow work" is a great concept, not just from Jung but also Ivan Illich, who used it to refer to a major source of Big Tech's Jungian shadow: requiring more and more free labour from the consumer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...

Subscribe to my new ~biweekly newsletter, Tech Shadow Work, where I will write about the unspoken "shadow" behind tech policy discourse: rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-t...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

And the latest edition of the Web Almanac is out again! Always a pleasure to help out with the highly #WordPress -focused CMS chapter.

This is quite literally HER land. 🤬

it's happening!!! from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off! wizardzines.com

The problem with these definitions is they idealize the mythical single author and exclude paratexts or treat them all as metadata at best.

New in our Federated Flow series. Host @pfefferle.org chats with @evanprodromou.threads.net.ap.brid.gy openchannels.fm/how-decentra...

Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers. https://fedi.wrm.sr #fediverse

Working on my slides for WordCamp Canada next week. I don't think I'll actually use the F-word in the slide. But I it makes me laugh when I see it. It's funny because it's true. ;-)

WordCamp Canada 2025 conference talk Leadership in open source isn’t just about code. At WordCamp Canada 2025, I shared how project and product managers can help lead WordPress releases through coordination, communication, and glue work that keeps contributors aligned and shipping on time. Here’s…

"Clouded Skies for Open Networks" www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skie...

This is the source of “the wolf” @scripting.com

Back home in winterland hinterlands

It’s a beautiful day for contributors at #WordCampCanada!

This is not a solicitation, but if someone had $2-5M to put into an organization to create and support open newsroom tools, there is an awful lot of good that could be done.

On the Hill last night.

Good morning #WordCampCanada!

Check this new Wapuu out — @joesimpsonjr.bsky.social made it for #WCEH!

A balmy fall day in #Ottawa. Tomorrow: #WordCampCanada!

Last week I was delighted to give a keynote talk to open #FediForum, the conference about building the open social web. It's about the real threats we're facing, why open alternatives matter so much right now - and the questions we can ask ourselves to make our work really matter.

We are VERY excited to announce Dr Bonnie Stewart as the opening keynote for Reclaim Open 2025! Check out the full schedule for Reclaim Open, learn more about our keynote speakers, presenters and bloggers. reclaimopen.com/schedule/

Dave Winer getting ready for his talk at WordCamp: "Twitter comes online, we try to work with it. Unless your ideas fit in 140 chars, don’t use links, or style, and you never make mistakes that need correction, it just doesn’t work. The ideal is to write in our blog space, and publish everywhere."

This is my sense of how the world and its webs *should* work, written while reading Édouard Glissant's Archipelago Conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist. #poeticsofrelation #archipelagicthinking

Life in Progress: the coming of age memoir from Hans Ulrich Obrist The world-renowned curator reflects on how a near-death experience in his childhood catapulted him towards a life in art. 2 October 2025, 6 - 7:30pm | 📍 Warburg Institute | Free Book:

Now is a good time to invest in a Mastodon account and Bridgy Fed. fed.brid.gy

Community Spotlight: @wordcampcanada.bsky.social 2025 is taking place from October 15-17 in Ottawa. Three days of learning, collaboration, and connection with the WordPress community — including a focus on accessibility. More details: canada.wordcamp.org/2025/ #WCEH #WPAD2025 #Accessibility

Wild! Pretty engrossing historical deep dive into the dangers of comix. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Get those tickets while they last, this train is moving! #WCEH #WordCampCanada #WordPress

Federated Identity Management (FIM) lets you hop between apps and services using just one login, no password juggling required. Here’s how it works.

This should be interesting! 🤠

I’m deeply suspicious of anything that tries to estimate how many kgs of carbon a website ‘emits’ There are so many factors and we don’t have strong data

Everyone seems to agree that in an ideal WordPress world comments would be disabled by default. You can make comments better with webmentions and customizations to keep your feedback human, healthy,… https://wpyeg.org/2025/08/15/a-proper-comment-system/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Was great chatting with @robcairns.bsky.social and @danknauss.wtf about how awesome @wordcampcanada.bsky.social is gonna be!

@zenhabits.bsky.social Håfa Adai, che'lu, ya ta påkpak!

A roundup of links I've collected over the last week or so. Fundamental architecture and system design, energy efficiency and performance. https://wpyeg.org/2025/08/04/good-ideas-and-new-things-in-wordpress/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Contribute to the WordPress project as you learn, and get course credits in return! Learn how working on open source projects can launch and accelerate your career path. https://wpyeg.org/2025/08/04/contribute-to-wordpress-and-earn-course-credits/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Custom Block Themes: Learn from Anders Norén’s Workflow Anders Norén has been designing some of the best and most beautiful WordPress themes for a very long time — over a decade if you look at his archive. His modern block themes are stunning. Back in May, he walked through his theme development…

Top Insights on WordPress Security Practices Oliver Sild and Mario Peshev had a great conversation about the real causes behind security failures with WordPress sites — and how to think like an adversary. There is not a lot of great writing and insight (as opposed to marketing content) about…

July Meetup: Unlocking the Power of Federated Networks with WordPress Do you know what the "Fediverse" is? Are you in it? Using the ActivityPub plugin (GitHub), any WordPress site (or user) can be federated and act as a client or server in relation to other ActivityPub users and platforms,…

Decentralize Your #WordPress: Getting Started with #ActivityPub - This Wednesday night at Edmonton Unlimited with @[email protected] www.meetup.com/edmonton-wor...

After a couple weeks of planning and preparing I'm excited to see this announcement. I'm excited to be part of a lineup that includes amazing folks like @jeffpaul.com, @ryanwelcher.com, @briancoords.com, @jonathandesrosiers.com, and many more who I'm looking forward to hearing from, and meeting!