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It’s a double newsletter week. Normally I wouldn’t do this to you, but my holiday vacation is about to start and I wanted to get a few additional things off my chest. As I’m hurriedly writing this, my inbox has been hit with four other WordPress newsletters who thought publishing on a Friday before Christmas…

I’m starting to sound like a broken record here, but I’ll say it again: I’m playing with the format of my content, people! I’m asking myself questions like “what is a newsletter?” and “is it bad to use the word ‘content’?”. There’s no strategy, friends. Last week I included three dozen links at the end…

In case you missed it, last week I launched a podcast: Webmasters.fm. Today I’ve dropped a new interview: Jessica Lyschik, developer at Greyd and one of the driving forces behind the very popular TwentyTwentyFour default WordPress theme. This episode is audio-only, but I’ve set up a new YouTube account to mirror the feed for any…

Launching a new podcast, a new website, and hopefully a new look at the open web.

Things have felt very… interesting in WordPressland the last few months.

Love him or hate him, Kevin Geary knows how to stir conversation. We’ve had a few public and private disagreements, and his fanboys often tag me as some sort of anti-Kevin Gutenberg apologist. So when Kevin revealed this image during his top secret Etch pre-sale campaign, I was not surprised by all the DMs asking…

You can set your clock by it – the recurring flare-ups of Gutenberg frustrations that turn into tweets that turn into videos that turn into livestreams that turn into… what exactly? I’m not entirely sure. What are we frustrated about? Leadership. Vision. Direction. Governance. Inflation. But above all: Gutenberg. I won’t retread the arguments about…

It’s a phrase that I’ve started to use more often, to the point where it starts to lose any sense of meaning. Does it mean anything?

Tomorrow I’m going head-to-head in a friendly “page building” livestream with Bricks Builder aficionado Kevin Geary (click to get notified here). We’ll take turns building the same landing page, talking the whole time about the tools and workflows and trying to compare apples to apples (Bricks to Gutenberg) as much as possible. I’ve responded to…