Automattic recently published 📺‘A meditation on the open web’, a 3:18 minutes video in which the viewer is taken on a visual journey that compares Facebook to a smoggy metropolis and Instagram to a Potemkin suburbia. The viewer is then guided ‘to see what else is out there in the world’: As the suburbs fade… Read more This is WordPress
So on my last day in Sri Lanka with Human Made, this happens: I’m enjoying a 🍺Lion’s at one of the beach bars in Negombo, a touristy area not far from BIA airport. Every other five minutes, another vendor walks by, offering what they have: souvenirs, clothes, jewellery. I kindly tell them no thanks, I’m good… Read more How I spent 4k on a product I didn’t need and got 4 lessons in value-driven marketing I hadn’t expected
If Morten Rand-Hendriksen would have given his talk “The Ethics of Web Design” at a church instead of the Milky Way track at WordCamp Europe 2018, the definition of what made that talk so special might have been: Testimony.
While large parts of my WordPress timeline have been outdoing themselves in climbing the Gutenberg lately, there’s been stuff happening around Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages of which a nagging feeling keeps telling me I should come to grips with now, or I might not have a profession in a year or two. If you have a minute,… Read more AMP and WordPress will scale performance on the web for millions of users, hate it or love it