Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed, which killed their EBS serversl, which took all of our data with it. Then it took them four days to figure this out and tell us about it.

Reminder: The cloud is just a computer in Reston with a bad power supply.

Latest @howibuilt covers the building of the US State Department’s website w/ #WordPress (via @taupecat) howibuilt.it/state-department-we…

“The notifications prompt is by far the most frequently shown permission prompt. Not even 3% of these prompts got accepted by users. Most prompts are dismissed, while almost 19% of prompts caused users to leave the site immediately”.

blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04… t.co/P8YuzEgMxz

Did a write-up on how picsum.photos works: dmarby.se/blog/lorem-picsum/

Thanks to @digitalocean for their continued support!

Been making some skeuomorphic Winamp skins in Sketch for fun.

i just always want to talk more about the Windows 3.1 “Hot Dog Stand” color theme

newspack page builder seems pretty intuitive newspack.blog/2019/07/17/an-earl…

Followup from @GaryPendergast on #PHP coding standard changes to #WordPress Core:

make.wordpress.org/core/2019/07/…

Wanting a six-figure salary is a totally legitimate reason to learn how to code.

Also: how on earth are we as a society accepting this ridiculous cookie agreement popup situation?

Sneaky peeky of what I’m working on. Template based block builder. Define your block in PHP, use BLOCKS as inputs for the fields, template lives server side, no JavaScript to write, no migrations to write if it changes.

Define your block like this pic shows!

#WordPress t.co/3XNv6MShwQ

“Be the endless Windows 95 error message pop-ups you want to see in the world.” twitter.com/laanlabs/status/1139…

A lot of larger #WordPress sites (@9to5toys @9to5Google @TechCrunch) have reverted to default themes, among other issues. Thoughts and prayers. 🙏🏻 t.co/3utx8zfuFH

Sign In with Apple plugin for WordPress github.com/kasparsd/sign-in-with… — a working prototype!

HBO’s #SiliconValley Confirmed to End With Delayed Season 6 tvline.com/2019/05/31/silicon-va…

Hey friends in DC and NYC, my talented friend @thrimpth is looking for a new marketing job in either city. She’s interested in marketing analysis and strategy and how those affect product development. Reach out and hire her~

HUGE! @StateDept relaunches their website on @WordPress! Peace out @drupal – helloooooooo WP! state.gov/ #WordPress

📣 Now Hiring! 📣

Reaktiv is looking for Senior Web Developers. Apply here today:

hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/…

#WordPress #NowHiring #jobs

Dear devs,
Do not use <details> / <summary> as modal. Nor nav. Probably not other stuff.
Accessibility issues abound.
twitter.com/calebporzio/status/1…