To celebrate my 40th year on this planet, I’m doing a fundraiser for the Norwegian Refugee Council and a month-long AMA in video format, and I invite you to take part! Each day from today until my birthday on October 17th, I’ll make a video where I answer one question from you. It can be…
How Not to Destroy the World: Ethics in Design and Technology from Morten Rand-Hendriksen All the links from the talk Mark Zuckerberg answers to Congress for Facebook’s troublesMark Zuckerberg apologizes to EU lawmakers for Facebook data scandalThe Data That Turned the World Upside DownIch habe nur gezeigt, dass es die Bombe gibtThose Banned 3D-Printed Gun…
Some WordPress users will not upgrade to 5.0 and Gutenberg. How this issue is addressed will impact the development of the application, its community, and its users long term. Offering a Long-Term Support version of 4.9.x may be the solution we need.
Tuesday May 27th, 2003 is a significant marker in the history of the web. On that day 15 years ago, in a tiny corner of the internet, a new software package titled “WordPress” made its debut. It’s goal: Make this thing called “blogging” possible for anyone and everyone. Just three years earlier I sat in…
NB: This article is part of a series on the new WordPress editing experience called "Gutenberg". If you are not familiar with Gutenberg, check out the first article in the series. As the Gutenberg project moves ever closer to merging with WordPress, users, administrators, designers, developers, and core contributors are raising concerns about timelines and what…
Everything you know about WordPress is about to change. The project codenamed "Gutenberg" is reimagining what content creation and editing on the web should look like and how it should work. Some time in 2018 the way WordPress works and the way you work with WordPress will change in a fundamental way, whether you are a visitor,…
Update August 10, 2017: After publishing this article I reopened the Trac ticket arguing the reason for closing it was no longer valid in lieu of Gutenberg’s collection of telemetry. A few hours later it was announced that usage tracking will be removed from Gutenberg and the ticket was closed as the original argument for closing it is once again accurate.…
Below are the advanced slides for my WordCamp Europe 2017 talk CSS Grid Changes Everything (About Web Layouts) presented June 17th, 2017 in Paris, France: From the website: “CSS Grid is now live in all major browsers, and with it everything we know about web layouts changes! Imagine drawing a grid in the browser and…
Is it time for WordPress to retire the 80/20 rule? And if so, what principle do we replace it with?
To move WordPress forward and develop an application that fits the needs of its users, we need data. I propose a telemetry project to fill the data gap.
Earlier today I was asked to share with my team what accomplishments I was most proud of in 2016. Rolling back the tape and looking at everything that’s happened in this year, I realized I should do some sort of year in review / inventory to document what I’ve done and challenge myself to do…
Can 10kB of SVG, CSS, and JavaScript produce a compelling web experience? This 10k Apart entry explores the edges of modern web technologies and Semaphore.
