We declare WINTER OVER.
After a long and often harsh season — punctuated by persistent cold, stubborn snow and ice, and a late-season chill this week— the pattern ahead has shifted.
Link to full story: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
Would be a really good idea for you all to cross post this to your Threads account… The discourse there is 🤦🏻♂️
Homer needs a new home!
My friend and his family are currently fostering Homer, a 4-mo old puppy, who is a really good boi as evidenced by these pictures (but my friend affirms it). If you’re in the DC/NoVA area, check out Homer’s adoption page:
www.lostdogrescue.org/animal/homer...
WooCommerce patterns for Ollie are here!
The 2-man team at OllieWP has spent the better part of a few months grinding away at releasing a better paradigm for WooCommerce in Gutenberg blocks.
Give it a look, give them some love (or better yet — money)!
olliewp.com/ollie-for-wo...
Hey #WordPress folks — if you're a theme tinkerer or work in a freelance/agency setting where you've relied on WPEngine/StudioPress's now-defunct pattern manager, I've got some good news for you: I've dusted it off and given it some much-needed updates!
github.com/tomfinitely/...
Oops, I did it again.
Built a Claude-powered SERP Optimizer — point it at a domain, it pulls your metadata and generates smarter titles, H1s, and meta descriptions with a live Google preview.
No setup. Runs in the browser.
claude.ai/public/artif...
Got a shout in Gutenberg Times this morning… Have you given Block Zapper a whirl? #wordpress
tomfinley.com/stop-rebuild...
Uploading an image to a site or ESP isn’t the same as optimizing it. Some platforms handle it well. Others quietly degrade your work.
I broke it down, plus a simple workflow to get it right before ever hitting upload
prufcreative.com/a-smarter-im...
#WordPress #EmailMarketing #ImageOptimization
From my analytics I can tell my Block Zapper post has broken containment, but what do you mean I have to wait a day to figure out where this happened?
tomfinley.com/stop-rebuild...
Y'all are so stinkin' talented... Mad props!
No doubt
Remember when they said Bluesky would never work?
Remember when Subtle Patterns was the 🐐?
I heard we're bringing back textures and skeuomorphism this year... #webdesign
Wild. I remember seeing them at Echostage back in, what, 2014? Sellout stadium shows kinda blow my mind, I didn't realize they'd gotten that big or were still that popular.
Ever strip a WordPress block pattern down to zero just because the custom attributes were a nightmare to clear? There's a tool for that. Block Zapper lets you zap specific attributes while preserving what you actually want to keep — images, backgrounds, structure.
tomfinley.com/stop-rebuild...
GitHub - tomfinitely/block-zapper: A powerful container block that allows you to group other blocks and reset their custom properties with a single click.A powerful container block that allows you to group other blocks and reset their custom properties with a... https://tomfinley.com/?p=174373
Wild thing is, this isn’t my first rodeo with Typekit faces and I’ve never had to hack around it before. Maybe I wasn’t leveraging variable fonts but… Seems like a weird and new problem. I wouldn’t care but iOS matters 🙃
Cursor bailed me out of that jam, but it seems like support for variable faces should be more deeply baked in to CMSes given that the payloads are drastically reduced compared to the traditional web font approach.
Hit a wall for a couple days on my #WordPress website relaunch where Safari (MacOS and every iOS browser) was italicizing an Adobe Typekit variable font, that should've rendered as upright.
Hey web nerds. Have you noticed unusual web traffic in your analytics from Lanzhou, China and/or Singapore lately? Well, it's not just you...
www.wired.com/story/made-i...
I should’ve known… Didn’t do enough scrollback ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@jacobsberg.bsky.social pursuant to your interests… 🙃
www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...
LOL it only took 4 days for Bari Weiss to absolutely cook herself.
But can they pin CBS's inevitable crash and burn on Joe Biden? Stay tuned... No, actually don't.
My favorite is 4 group photos of the same people and the last one is solo, and they’re not remotely the attractive one 🙃
Art!
If you see this repost this with your model of positive masculinity
If I didn’t know you a lot better I would assume this was AI 🫠
