Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Jay Ernest Kalk – April 10, 2026 Jay Ernest Kalk of the Folsom Prison Experience chats with AOF host Anthony Merchant all about performing as Johnny Cash and what audiences should expect at The Reg Lenna on April 18th www.reglenna.com/events/folsom-prison www.folsomprisonexperience.com

[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Jay Ernest Kalk – April 10, 2026

Jay Ernest Kalk of the Folsom Prison Experience chats with AOF host Anthony Merchant all about performing as Johnny Cash and what audiences should expect at The Reg Lenna on April 18th www.reglenna.com/events/folsom-prison…

A recent WordPress plugin incident allowed hidden malicious code to run for months and remain active even after updates, affecting multiple sites without obvious signs. mainwp.com/wordpress-su...

Poster for "No Place to Grow Old" documentary screening on April 22, 6pm. Shows an outdoor shelter made of tarps and salvaged materials. Free event with panel discussion hosted by League of Women Voters SF and other organizations.

What happens when seniors can't find safe, stable housing? The documentary "No Place to Grow Old" tells that story.

Free screening & discussion with a panel of advocates about what we can do about it.

📅 April 22
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ RSVP luma.com/lrtq1eg5

@wrfalp.bsky.social enjoyed the new show Unknown Caller tonight!

Some people have told me they wish they could go to CSS Day or Smashing Conf where I'll be talking this year, but the price is prohibitive, which I totally get.

But the CMD school of design is hosting a completely free conf around both of them, with great lineups.

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What to Ask Before You Hire a Web Developer - Always Open Design Before You Hire a Web Developer: what a professional website costs, what you should own, and red flags to watch for. A guide for business owners.

“Your website. When’s the last time you really looked at it? It gets updated when something breaks, redesigned when a competitor’s looks better, and handed off to whoever seems to know what they’re doing at the time.” A guide for business owners:

alwaysopen.design/website-owne...

#209 - Simon Pollard on Navigating the New Normal for WordPress Community and Events

Interesting conversation on WP Tavern Jukebox with @nathanwrigley.com and Simon Pollard about #WordPress community: open.spotify.com/episode/6jc5...

PREORDER: 'Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons (30th Anniversary Edition)' by Earth

Favourite Earth record is this - the drone metal pioneer's stoner metal-leaning LP returns as a colour vinyl edition complete with a wraparound art print.

@subpop.bsky.social
www.normanrecords.com/records/2149...

Topher Learns How: Can Perfmatters make my WordPress site faster? YouTube video by Topher DeRosia

In this episode of Topher Learns How, I have a talk with @brianleejackson.com, project lead for Perfmatters. I had no idea how Perfmatters fit into a site performance plan. Now I do. #WordPress
youtu.be/xMsMmb6JS9g

Overview Pages: Overlooked or Optimized? - Always Open Design Your overview page isn't just a list of links, it's the page that anchors a section of your site and gives everything around it context.

Just like pizza, my articles are usually better the day after (post-publish edits, am I right?) - the oft overlooked overview page gets some respect (finally): alwaysopen.design/overview-pag...

JBPU facilities on the edge of the Chadakoin range vet

Do you know about the BPU signage - history of the public utilities

A spiny soft shelled turtle explainer - rare indicator of clean water

Overpass looking back toward downtown Jamestown

Finally explored the Chadakoin Riverwalk in Jamestown, cool wildlife signage, very nice people spaces, and interesting facts about our municipal utilities. Loved it.

How to grow strawberries Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...

Some of you are dreading Monday. Some of you are spending your Sunday working to be “ready” for Monday. Some of you are facing your first Monday without work. Some of you are gearing up for another week of hoping the phone rings. You’ll all get something out of this: buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Today on WFMU: On Observations of Deviance w/David Mittleman (Give the Drummer Radio stream): The show will begin with cover versions of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War," followed by three hours of rare live performances of this classic track by Sun Ra and his Arkestra (7 p.m. ET).

I got sidetracked into redesigning my website during a weekend lull (more fool I). That was about 3 weekends ago now…

This Week in WordPress #365

This episode with Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Marc Benzakein, Rhys Wynne explores the renewed importance of blogging and owning your content in 2026, discusses WordPress's educational initiatives and their overlapping complexities,
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Understanding WordPress Section Styles - Always Open Design WordPress Section Styles are an extension of block style variations. Create flexible, user-friendly, consistent designs with Section Styles.

This week, I dive into Section Styles in WordPress themes - a flexible way to present different types of content and maintain design consistency. A very handy tool for your #WordPress theming tool-kit. alwaysopen.design/understandin...

Join the WP Minute Membership - The WP Minute A Place for WordPress Professionals The WP Minute helps a broad audience of WordPress freelancers, agency owners, product makers, and stakeholders throughout the WordPress economy. There's a spot for ...

My #WordPress peeps, are you looking for something to do on a quiet Sunday? You can join me over at @thewpminute.com for free! You'll gain access to our Slack channel and our free courses (a new one is dropping soon 👀). thewpminute.com/membership/

WordPress Block Styles and Variations - Always Open Design Block style variations are a big improvement, allowing site editors to choose and apply options visually from the block editor's style panel.

Many #WordPress side-quests while trying to document my classic theme to block theme migration, the latest explores Block Variations and Block Styles - similar, but different: alwaysopen.design/block-style-...

Thanks Derek!

Made the feed… thanks to @wordpress.org and @heropress.bsky.social for supporting all of the different pathways to community and professional development.

Thank you!

Walking to the store much easier today (went Sunday while it was still snowing), sidewalks cleared - it looks like 2 feet of snow all around. Jamestown, NY - lots of snow!

Block Theme Development, Part 2: Page Templates and Custom Styles - Always Open Design Focusing on building out page templates, enabling custom functionality, and making custom style adjustments in block themes.

Part 2 from my block theme development exercise - migrating an existing website to a new design is always a challenge, but I did learn a few things about how block spacing actually works in #WordPress - alwaysopen.design/block-theme-...

This was fun!

How Art School Led Me To Web Design Emily Rapport from Jamestown, NY writes about how her desire to share her art led her into a career as a WordPress developer.

@topher1kenobe.bsky.social kindly invited me to contribute my #WordPress story to HeroPress, a site dedicated to sharing the stories of and connecting people in WordPress. Check it out: heropress.com/essays/how-a...

Today on WFMU: On Observations of Deviance w/David Mittleman (Give the Drummer Radio stream), Öppet Archives: Swedish Free Jazz Round Table. Öppet is a historically important series of albums focused on Swedish creative improvised music of the 1960s and 1970s (7 p.m. ET).

Split image: movie poster for "Morocco" with illustrated images of stars Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich on the left; on the right, a black-and-white film scene with Dietrich wearing a tuxedo seated on a rail before an audience.

Before the Hays Code slammed the door, Hollywood told bolder stories. Morocco (1930), now in the public domain, preserves a fleeting vision of a Hollywood before the hammer of the censor fell.

Learn why pre-Code films still matter ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/01/20/i...

Alt Text: a lush forest scene, two large fallen trees and two standing trees form a grid in a slightly fantastical, organic landscape with heightened palette

Complete! “Forest,” oil/canvas, 36x44” - maybe this title will change - from a scene earlier this Fall that I photographed at the Audubon Community Nature Center. #OilPainting #LandscapePainting #JamestownNY