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Blessings and curses of turning your hobby into a career
The following is an essay written by Anders Norén. This essay can be found both in english below and at the link in the caption in the above image and in the writer’s native language of Swedish. My Similar Story This essay caught my eye from the similarities of my journey in discovering web development.…
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The WP Community Collective Launches Nonprofit to Fund Individual Contributors and Community-Based Initiatives
I have to give credit to the WP Community Collective (WPCC) who officially launched December 2nd, 2022 as a new nonprofit organization dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives. It was founded by Sé Reed, Katie Adams Farrell, and Courtney Robertson. As a person that has been using WordPress for a while now I have…
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Hacks to Make Your Home More Accessible
In a world that was built without wheelchair users in mind, some across the United States share how they make their living spaces a little easier to manage. Hopefully one of these inexpensive hacks will work for you, or even better, spark an idea for your own ingenious access solution which I would love to…
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Embracing the Spirit of Giving: Join Pono’s Appeal this Giving Tuesday
Introduction In a world filled with complexities and challenges, it is often the simple acts of kindness and generosity that bring about the most profound change. Giving Tuesday, a global movement celebrated on the Tuesday following the American Thanksgiving, encourages individuals and organizations to come together and make a positive impact in their communities. Today,…
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Dig into the Open Web
As the American Thanksgiving holiday is coming up Thursday, I am so grateful for people who make WordPress – 800 of them in the most recent 6.1 release with 35 percent of them being new contributors to the project. This community has made remarkable progress this year, while navigating changes and uncertain times. Committed contributors continue to…
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WordPress Launches Developer Blog in Beta
WordPress.org will soon launch their blog for developers. The blog went into beta at the end of last week and resides on a subdomain of the main site curently. It is sporting a design similar to what WordPress is using in their general News blog. One of the big picture goals that WordPress’ Executive Director Josepha Haden-Chomphosy identified…
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Plug-in Recommendations
Now that I’ve been working with WordPress for 8 years I figured it was time I talked about the plugins that I use. I will be reviewing and talking about the plugins that I have found useful in my journey. I will continue to update this post as I discover and use new plugins with…
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WordPress to Explore Using GitHub Codespaces for Improving Contributor Experience
WordPress lead developer Helen Hou-Sandí has in the past proposed using GitHub Codespaces to improve the contributor experience especially for new developers just getting into contributing. GitHub, a few days ago, announced the availability of GitHub Codespaces, its a quick launch cloud-based developer environment, for all users, with 60 hours free per month for Free users and 90 hours…
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Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
Back in July, I wrote an article about whether or not it was time to leave GitHub. Well, There has been some developments since then and now Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are getting sued by a programmer an lawyer named Matthew Butterick, with allegations that GitHub’s Copilot violate terms of open-source license and infringe on…
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2022 Web Almanac Performance Data Shows WordPress Sites May Be Overusing Lazy-Loading
The last two chapters of the 2022 Web Almanac were released this week, they were Structured Data and Performance, completing the 729-page ebook of the report. The WordPress-specific chapter was published earlier this month with metrics that indicate adoption is continuing it’s trend of growing year over year. The Performance chapter was written by Etsy performance engineer Melissa…