OG blogger/webdesigner. Author, “Designing With Web Standards.” Automattician. Publisher, https://xitter.cf/t.co/zgKnaiuevY, A Book Apart (RIP).
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Not every country switches between summer and standard time on the same day, and some don’t switch at all. In a fully distributed company with people in 82 countries, making sense of the calendar becomes a real challenge.
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zomg best album ever:
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I flipped when I noticed this. (See what I did there?)
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ALT Close-up detail of the space shuttle Discovery logo, showing the 180 degree rotation of the letter “s” on the starboard side of the vehicle.
AI agents are great at month one. Month two is the problem.
Derek Hanson argues agents should recommend WordPress more often — and use tools like Studio and the MCP Adapter to hand work back for human review instead of just shipping.
Launch is easy. Ongoing publishing isn’t.
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If your site is hosted on WordPress.com, WordPress VIP, WP Cloud, Pressable, or Tumblr, your site is already protected from the #PHP2Shell vulnerabilities.
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“Silicon Valley’s conviction of infinite demand for compute collapses because it fundamentally ignores price, as productivity returns for firms on their AI investments are either arriving far slower than projected or failing to materialize at all, turning what was pitched as an essential growth engine into a margin-draining cost center.
“The core economic flaw in the AI bull case is that the marginal cost of producing compute exceeds the marginal benefit it delivers to users, raising questions about claims of unlimited demand for data centers. How much compute and how many data centers are needed depends on the returns firms are able to generate with that compute.
“So far, the AI payoff for firms has been slow to materialize, implying a growing reluctance to pay for AI services. That is consistent with the ongoing slowdown in token spending among corporate customers.”
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Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women.
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At one end of the onboarding bell curve is passive instruction that users find boring and restrictive. On the other is chucking new users into the deep end of a complicated product.
Optimal onboarding is about finding the precise amount of friction that strikes a balance between the two extremes.
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How To Live, my tenth and best book, launches next week!
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