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Jonathan Wold & Luke Carbis
Perspectives on WordPress and the Open Web.
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Jul 21, 2022 • 15min
Yesterweb
Luke and Jonathan open Season 5 debating nostalgia, discussing the 5 minute install, and announcing an acquisition.
1 Across: Serverless compute
Links:
https://yesterweb.org/

Feb 18, 2022 • 15min
Clarity
In the last episode of Season 4, Luke and Jonathan discuss Clarity and what a better future might look for ads in the WordPress admin.

Feb 2, 2022 • 15min
Happy New Year
Luke and Jonathan wax lyrical about broken pipes, skiing, the current state of the WordPress community, and the WordPress 2022 release cycle.

Dec 15, 2021 • 15min
State of the Word 2021
Luke reflects on the 2021 State of the Word, while Jonathan holidays on a Mexican beach.

Nov 4, 2021 • 15min
The Metaverse
Luke and Jonathan talk about the Facebook, the Metaverse, WordPress, and the Open Web. Luke begins to change his mind about Zuckerberg and Facebook.

Oct 21, 2021 • 15min
Multi-User Editing
Forget multi-site, we want multi-user! Luke and Jonathan look beyond the (unfailingly distant) full site editing horizon, toward a day when we can edit a post, nay, design an entire WordPress site collaboratively, contiguously, and concurrently.

Oct 15, 2021 • 54min
Perspectives with Aaron Gustafson
Aaron Gustafson is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team, focused on their work on Progressive Web Apps and developer UX. He's also a spec editor at the W3C and Editor-in-chief of A List Apart. Aaron joins Luke and Jonathan to talk about the Open Web and share his perspective (and some guidance) with the WordPress community.

Sep 10, 2021 • 15min
Proposals, Pods, and Post Types
Jonathan attempts a no-code FSE site build, and Luke is skeptical about FSE landing this year.

Sep 2, 2021 • 15min
Early Days
Luke starts off with a surprise. Then we talk about Andrea Middleton, WordPress acquisitions, and whether we're still in the early days of WordPress.

Aug 26, 2021 • 15min
Ugly
Luke and Jonathan talk about themes, an ugly web, and Gutenberg / Classic Editor reviews.