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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.

https://poststatus.com/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 “WordPress” 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.