I just love Cabel Sasser’s XOXO talk. I’m not going to summarize it—that would spoil the fun—but it’s got everything I like: art, mystery, and investigation, driven by a fascination with the strange. Highly recommend it.
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ACF WTF
This business with Matt Mullenweg basically stealing Advanced Custom Fields and ransoming it back to WP Engine is beyond belief.
I wasn’t inclined to sympathize with WP Engine to begin with, but Automattic lost whatever moral high ground they had the moment this started.
Keep it simple
An attitude I’m seeing a lot of, in the wake of the Mullenweg/WP Engine drama, is “ditch #WordPress and replace it with [whatever static site generator is currently trendy].”
So many folks in the tech community don’t seem to grasp that a lot of us—including those of us with tech skills—don’t want to be worrying about things like build processes, deployments, or command-line wrangling with Ruby or Node. We want to log in, do our work, and hit “Publish”.