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  • Death to the weekly note

    Death to the weekly note

    One blog I’ve followed for years is that of fellow Core Committer and friend Jeremy Felt. His “Weekly Note” series has always inspired me to publish more consistently. Today, he published a post about letting go of that format. After a few minutes of typing, I realized I had more to say than was appropriate…


  • I Love Building Software – A Poem by Aaron Jorbin

    I Love Building Software – A Poem by Aaron Jorbin

    I love building software that lets people speak, sell, do as they please. Everyone gets a voice, a product, or a protest. Freedoms, four of them, all boxed up in neat little binaries.


  • Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen updates now available

    Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Nineteen updates now available

    Default themes are often updated in unison with WordPress releases, but there is nothing preventing them from being updated on their own. Since a WordPress 5.6.1 fast-follow was ruled out, it was deemed preferable to fix these bugs in Twenty Twenty-One independent of a release of WordPress itself before the end of 2020.


  • Codebase language improvements in WordPress 5.5

    Codebase language improvements in WordPress 5.5

    In version 5.5, WordPress will see several changes aimed at maintaining a welcoming environment for all contributors while improving the clarity and inclusivity of the codebase. This is a separate but related effort to a recent proposal to update the default branches for all of the project’s GIT repositories.