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WordPress developer and educator, father to 5 free-range children Writing 👉 briancoords.com Video 👉 youtube.com/@BrianCoords Podcast 👉 webmasters.fm
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Big props to @mikemcalister.com for launching this massive free video course about building with full site editing. olliewp.com/theme-academy/

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I sat down with @craylor.link to chat about his path to success on YouTube. This conversation is a great mix of learning about the process and about the person. Here's a short clip, but find webmasters.fm in your podcast app for the whole episode.

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"But here’s the reality: We are not currently on a trajectory to genius systems." Cal Newport - AI and Work (Some Predictions) calnewport.com/ai-and-work-...

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Wrapping up a wonderful week in Lisbon with the Woo Developer Advocacy team, focused mostly on super-powering our developer docs. We have some amazing things coming but if you have any thoughts on what you need from our dev docs, please share.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

✉️ My newsletter just hit your inbox. Today I asked the question, is clean code still important? Thoughts about the launch of Figma Sites, the increase in LLM-generated code, and what the true values of web development should be. www.briancoords.com/newsletter/i...

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Congrats to the Newspack team. They working to onboard about 40 alt-weeklies after their old CMS platform shut down: newspack.com/joining-with...

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Generative AI and social media tell users what they want to hear, Mike Caulfield writes. That's a problem, but a shift in thinking could fix it.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

This is a great walk through of custom block development - with a WooCommerce focus.

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Figma was going to be acquired by Adobe for $20,000,000,000 (that’s twenty billion dollars) and someone in Product at Figma is asking me product development questions for free. This is uncomfy.

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing

submitted 35 days ago • 184 comments

I’m generally an Apple fan but they overplayed their hand and I’m grateful to California for handing a win to the open web this week. Most tech lawsuits and regulation attempts aren’t this way.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Buckled down to figure out how to self-host variable fonts the right way resulted in a little how-to article: alwaysopen.design/self-hosting...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Hey friends - if you have experience (positive or negative) building Woo sites with block-based checkout, you're invited to a brief interview to help us improve it (selected applicants will be compensated for their time).

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Our developer experience team at Woo is setting up shop on Bluesky. Follow and share if you could 🙏

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

🎙️ Final Session Reveal 🎙️ We’re closing out #PressConf with an on-stage podcast! Join @amberhinds.bsky.social, @briancoords.com, @mjs.bio, & @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social, hosted by Brian Richards, as they riff off the cuff & wrap it all up. 📍 Tempe, AZ | Apr 23–26 🌐 pressconf.events/schedule

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That thing where you're halfway through reading some research online and suddenly think of @sethrubenstein.info helping to get it online for you. Thanks Seth! www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

My latest newsletter went out this morning with thoughts about - you guessed - WordPress, AI, and the future of digital content. Plus recent interviews and links from around the web. ✉️ Are websites still important? www.briancoords.com/newsletter/a...

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Any tips on activating engagement on your OSS project's GitHub Discussions board?

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I missed this article first but a) it’s excellent and completely accurate in my experience (tho Threads is way worse than Bsky on this front) and b) the comments prove the article is completely accurate. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Since Bluesky doesn't have email notifications of replies, tags, etc- how would you keep an eye on an account that doesn't get a huge amount of notifications? I'm thinking some sort of automation that uses the API 🤔

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Are you coding with AI (Cursor, Copilot, etc)? If so, do you still read or use documentation?

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

🎙️ New podcast episode! This week I talk with @katiekeithbarn2.bsky.social all about the WooCommerce community, her experiences with Shopify, and whether WordPress is really built for beginners. webmasters.fm/understandin...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments