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1. Velvet Revolver 2. Senses Fail 3. The Early November 4. Minus the Bear 5. The Fall of Troy

Memorization vs. Real-World Application in #WordPress development. www.youtube.com/shorts/Db6Jx...

I had a great chat with @iansvoboda.com about building a #WordPress development business. Check it out over on @thewpminute.com - Ian has some great tips! thewpminute.com/how-to-build...

Best in WordPress Design: General Condition automattic.design/2025/11/19/b...

I'm pleased to announce that my free course WordPress Local Development Basics is now published and available on Learn WP Theme Dev! learnwptheme.dev/course/wordp... You can sign up for free (no credit card needed) and check out the content. It would mean the world to me if you did!

I'm pleased to announce that my free course WordPress Local Development Basics is now published and available on Learn WP Theme Dev! learnwptheme.dev/course/wordp... You can sign up for free (no credit card needed) and check out the content. It would mean the world to me if you did!

🚨 My newsletter about WordPress and WooCommerce, "Loop WP", Issue 177 is out now! - OpenAI launches “Buy it in ChatGPT,” with Etsy & Shopify leading agentic commerce. WooCommerce plugins emerge as AI reshapes the online shopping landscape.

Feels like a lot of people in tech I used to follow managed to get known on social, then just lose all interest in tech and just shit post about politics all day.

It’s Turnstile summer baby

Bruhhh

At this point the only George R R Martin news worth a shit is when Winds of Winter comes out. If it ain’t about that, no one cares.

I think Nova by @panic.com should try to capture some of the WP developer market. There are still a lot of folks out there who are using SFTP to deploy or modify files, having that built-in (and well done) is a huge plus. But the tooling and extensions are still lacking in nova. No real AI support

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/t... "At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled." I've signed the petition.

✨ new article alert 📰 CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide wherein I finish off a ~6 year old draft writing down where and when I use either/or/both options in a modern front-end architecture. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/css... 🙏🖤 #CSS #Sass #FrontEnd #WebDev

Every single article for the NYT has a paywall these days. Which sucks because some stories look good. But I am absolutely never paying for a subscription that I cannot easily cancel and their subscription practices are customer hostile AF. So that’s a big no thanks from me.

Always seek data; never act on data alone. Because not looking at the data is just ignorance, but believing that all important things are in the data, or that the data are measuring what you think they're measuring, is also folly.

financial advice in a weird time: -- develop a plan -- find friends who support you -- preferably 10 of them -- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand -- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos -- get your wife back -- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw simple

Today, I finished building a really sweet mechanism in Full Site Editing: The ability to have *multiple block areas* Normally when you make a template for a given post, you only have one "outlet" for post content, which is the content block. (thread)

Joan’s writing is awesome give it a read if you haven’t.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.  To the Transgender community in Illinois and around the country: You deserve to live your life proudly and openly. We see you and we will protect you.

It's wild how many conservative/right leaning folks are buying the bullshit about vaccines. I don't blindly believe anything I read (especially not from corpos), but I think these people seem to have a fundamental lack of respect for any actual science.

@monteiro.bsky.social you still selling any art? Is the best way to inquire via email still?

I don’t pay to use design software right now but if I did, it would prob be Sketch or Excalidraw. While I like Figma well enough but holy fuck it’s expensive as hell now.

I’m building a backyard office shed and I needed to figure out how much drywall to buy. So I asked Claude bc I didn’t feel confident doing the math myself. But I’m never going to ask Claude to design my interior or choose my furniture.

"Every time we divide, we put zeroes under the line, and publish it as our proof, that nothingness is divine" "I'd rather be a jealous man, than an off-duty cop, I tried to be babe in arms, not a bull in a china shop"

Holy shit I basically found the one, just not the same color (mine was all gunmetal gray and such, this one is more fun) i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HJc...

Dear Tesla owners, when ACTUAL NAZIS show up to protect your car dealership it might be a sign that it’s time to get rid of your car.

Some lyrics that are apropos for the times we’re in

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Fuckin exactly

Unlock the secrets of styling counters, from simple HTML list tweaks to advanced techniques that transform any element into a list-like masterpiece. Dive deeper here: css-tricks.com/styling-cou...

Mastodon has, in addition to an awful name, virtually zero redeeming qualities. “Hey would you like to use a confusing app that takes forever to get dialed in and your data could just one day not exist anymore?” Yeah no I’m good.

Idk who needs to hear this but In the year of our lord 2025, you do not need to use Google as your only search engine. Bing or Duckduckgo are equally viable and I'd consider switching because if nothing else, no one company deserves to control internet search.

Joan’s writing is fantastic and has been for years. If you’re not familiar, check out the blog. There’s never been a better time to support independent journalists. Find a writer, blogger, etc and support them however you can.

We've got an incredible tutorial for you today! 🔥 Samuel Jarry brings Amin Ankward's interactive concept to life, walking us through the step-by-step implementation using Three.js. A must-read packed with valuable insights and hands-on learning! Read it here: tympanus.net/codrops/2025...

It is wild to think that there are people alive in this country who were placed into internment camps in our own country. That shit really was not that long ago. It seems unthinkable now. That type of stuff always felt so far away.

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

We don't need to automate the best parts of being human. Some things are meant to be slow. Some things are meant to be clumsy. That's the point.

New quarter starts soon and I have room for another project and long term engagement. If you know someone looking for help with frontend, design systems, WordPress, or product work, please send them my way! iansvoboda.com

While the mind is unquestionably not a computer, there is tantalizing evidence to suggest that the mind is computable, and as such, we are faced with the prospect of artifical sentience. We are intentionally, inevitably, and irreversibly co-evolving with computing.

*sitting down* damn, Dictionary got hands

I feel like SQLite is supposed to be....simpler to deploy. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. But I'm trying to get this React app going with litestream to replicate it and stuff and ooooweee this is obnoxiously difficult.

just a reminder for those who don’t know! you can go into your settings and toggle a button that makes it so that you can’t post pics until you’ve added alt text to them!!! :) settings > accessibility > require alt text before posting make your shitposting accessible to everyone!! 🖤🖤

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up