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I love you PHP 5.6, I really do.

I’ve tried staying quiet about this but… it bothers me the only mention of security is the presumption a plugin will have flaws. Well, yes, if you prioritize the misspelling WordPress over escaping and sanitization, that’s exactly what will happen.

What Agencies are Looking for in Your Code

What you young’uns don’t understand is that CSS-Tricks used to be run by some guy called Chris as a side gig. I think he runs a farm out west these days.

I’m excited about this too, for a while I was getting daily review requests from Jonny & his team mates for one performance improvement or another. *Even better with a persistent cache.*

One thing to checkout it in WordPress 6.0 beta 1, is some of the amazing work that has been done by me and the @XWP performance team. The work we committed to core, improves database performance. Meaning that 6 less MySQL queries are run per average page load.

— Jonny Harris (@thespacedmonkey) April 14, 2022

Me: Making architecture decisions for a CMS as popular as WordPress is really hard.
CSS working group: Hold my beer! https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/03/14/if-or-when/

When discussing differences in musical taste with your partner, it turns out “well, that’s because you’re older than me” is not the correct answer.

World: please do not be alarmed if you see an Australian post a photo of their 20-year-old selves smoking a bong. It’s actually pretty damn cool.

You can increase the diversity of applicants in a call for speakers with this one weird trick: paying your speakers. Include the amount in the CFP and reach out to underrepresented groups highlighting the honorarium. Read an @ffconf CFP and do that.

Games ending in le are to 2022 as startups ending in ly are to 2012.