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Supreme Court and Social Media, Cybertruck Troubles, and Guest Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg: The Importance of Reflecting on Mistakes
AI Key Takeaways
- Mistakes happen and it's important to remember that
- Writing blog posts on a WordPress blog can help slow down the thought process and avoid impulsive reactions on platforms like Twitter or mailing lists
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Supreme Court and Social Media, Cybertruck Troubles, and Guest Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg on Automatic's Acquisition of Texts.com and the Importance of Open Source
AI Key Takeaways
- Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of automatic and co-founder of WordPress.
- Automatic has acquired text T-E-X-T-S.com, a desktop app that combines multiple messaging apps into one interface.
- The acquisition expands automatic's portfolio into the messaging space, which is a more competitive area.
- The acquisition aligns with automatic's goal of becoming a comprehensive internet platform.
- Matt Mullenweg believes that speed, focus, and leveraging competitors' weaknesses can help small companies compete against big players.
- Tumblr has a niche audience of primarily young people who appreciate its anonymity and creative community.
- Automatic acquired Tumblr for a de minimis amount after Yahoo previously purchased it for $1.1 billion.
- Matt Mullenweg emphasizes the importance of open source software and the freedom it provides users.
- Open source software allows users to have agency and autonomy in their digital choices.
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Do You Really Need a Degree for Tech? With Lauren Schaefer, Developer Advocate at Grammarly
DevRel as a Product Function
AI Key Takeaways
- DevRel can be seen as a product function
- DevRel reporting into marketing has implications
- Setting goals and optimizing time in DevRel
- Product is a natural fit for DevRel
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Episode 185: Daniel Stenberg on the cURL project
Maintaining backward compatibility for 16 years: The key to regular releases of curl
AI Key Takeaways
- curl has been released frequently for a long time without breaking backwards behavior or compatibility
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How Faust.js Listens to the Community
Lack of Feedback on WordPress Plugins
AI Key Takeaways
- Many requests for comments on plugins are not seen in the WordPress community.
- Developers often listen and check Twitter for feedback on plugins.
- Opening up and getting feedback on plugins is interesting.
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Equalize Digital to the Moon
The WP Community Collective launches inaugural WPCC Accessibility Fellowship
AI Key Takeaways
- The first fellowship for the WordPress contributor community has been successfully funded by the WP Community Collective.
- The WP Community Collective has announced the successful funding and launch of their inaugural fellowship program, the WPCC Accessibility Fellowship.
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Why We Built Front End Highlighting | Owl Farm Big Berry Imperial Fruited Sour
"Front end highlighting" feature in the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker plugin
AI Key Takeaways
- Front end highlighting is a new feature in the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker plugin that helps users identify issues on their site.
- The front end highlighting feature allows users to view their website on the front end and easily identify accessibility errors.
- The plugin provides a visual reference to where the issue is with a pinkish magenta highlight.
- Users can initiate the front end highlighting overlay and page through their errors without having to go to the back end.
- The plugin allows users to disable styles to help locate hidden elements on the page.
- Managing focus on the front end for screen reader users is an important consideration to ensure accessibility.
- User testing with individuals who have disabilities is crucial in improving the accessibility of plugins and tools.
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Open Source in a Large Organization with Michael Cheng
The Role of Developer Advocates in Open Source Communities
AI Key Takeaways
- Very mature company-aligned projects often hire professional developer advocates to represent the open source community.
- Having developer advocates lessens the risk of engineers leaving the project.
- Developer advocates help alleviate burnout by sharing the workload of maintaining a project.
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Oracle smacks IBM over RHEL (News)
IBM's decision on Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code release
AI Key Takeaways
- IBM has decided to stop publicly releasing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code because it needs to pay its engineers.
- Red Hat, before its acquisition by IBM, chose to publicly release its source code and pay its engineers for many years.
- Oracle promises to make the binaries and source code for its Linux distribution publicly available and welcomes downstream distributions of all types.
- Oracle is willing to work with distributors to facilitate the process and ensure that its software products are certified on their distribution.
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Episode 60: Sneak a Peek at WordPress 6.3 with Special Guest Kira Schroder
Automatic Rollbacks for Plugin and Theme Updates
AI Key Takeaways
- Automatic rollbacks have been a long-standing feature request for WordPress core.
- If plugin or theme updates fail during installation, WordPress will now automatically restore the previous version.
- This is a significant improvement over the previous behavior that could result in broken websites.
- The Wissan protection implemented was a significant advancement in addressing this issue.
- These changes bring great news for WordPress users.
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The Wonderful World of WordPress
Why WordPress makes releases: A core committer's perspective
AI Key Takeaways
- The speaker questions the reasons behind releases in WordPress.
- The phrase "Why did they do that?" can have various interpretations.
- The speaker suggests applying this thinking to other situations.
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Episode 169: Dawn Wages of PSF on organizing communities, ethical licenses, and more
Addressing the Challenges of Open Source and Capitalism
AI Key Takeaways
- Open source is good for beginners in coding, but requires a large upfront investment of time and has no guarantee of pay off.
- Open source work can be detrimental to the mental and general health of its contributors.
- It is harder to be a good open source contributor if you do not check all the boxes.
- There may be a conflict between promoting ethical source and getting a lot of students involved in open source.
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