Find out how to get to the top to see a penguin boy who, for some reason, has the same skills as a 58-year-old mafia boss.
In today’s model:
- Hey everyone in Portland posting selfies with other real-life people they’ve worked with/gossiped with on Slack for years.
- Etch, please! Kevin Geary attempts to stoke the flames of FOMO with his massive, bold release.
- The Eddie Money Parody No One Asked For.
Out of Print: What’s New?
WP Fit organizers can now have some promotional and advertising finance, as maintenance
WordCamp US is underway! If you happen to be there, grab a West Coast IPA for us at Upright Brewing Tasting Room. Need some tips on how to spherical? Cami Kaos wrote a really great article.
Speaking of wordpress Events, Rocio Valdivia, Global Community Teams Strategy Manager, recently posted an offer that allocated a portion of the wordpress Events/WordCamp budget to promotion and sales.
The goal? To attract more newbies to their events, aiming for at least 50% first-time attendees.
To achieve this goal, WordCamp organizers will receive a whopping $50 to $400 in match funding for every contribution.
This is the first time in wordpress’ 21-year history that organizers have been assigned a sales price range. After WordCamp Netherlands was rescheduled due to low ticket sales, it looks like good old word of mouth isn’t working anymore.
Suggested channels for funding include game listings, online calendars, newsletter listings, influencer partnerships, and even strategically placed posters, flyers, and banners. (I’m surprised they didn’t mention homemade magazines, viral email chains, or just everyone putting the improvement information in their AOL program name.)
What about targeted campaigns on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn along with TV, radio and newspaper placements, you might ask? Those should only be considered when the previous options have been explored, because they can “go cheap very quickly.”
However, the most important segment will be to get the right enthusiasm. Any amount of money spent on selling is always a waste if it does not reach the right type of people.
Maybe Etch is a bit of a… caricature? Only time will tell.
Computerized.css and Frames creator Kevin Geary only recently announced the launch (of sorts) of Etch, billed as the biggest WP announcement in twenty years.
From what we can gather, it promises to be a unified builder that takes care of web page development, CPT, search engine optimization and all other developer moves, all from one place without jumping between different plugins and interfaces.
The idea for the challenge appears to have arisen from Kevin’s frustration with the “context switching” required for graphics in wordpress.
I guess it doesn’t do what the rest of us do: open 4,967 tabs in an instant.
But then again… the catch? Etch doesn’t exist… anyway. It’s just a vision, expected to end in about 3 years.
Kevin bypassed traditional funding channels to take a more grassroots approach, asking the group itself to pay a minimum upfront fee of $499 to fund his hypothetical product.
Kev apparently mentioned in his live glide (which, according to Mañana No Mas! founder Kurt von Ahnen, evoked memories of Jim Carrey’s Fire Marshall Bill) that those who don’t blindly adhere to his vision are “bad bitches” and “haters.”
Well… identify me Nancy if that’s what you like, then isn’t it more unreasonable to have to see past a bunch of white dudes to conclude that your product will actually be something? I don’t know… probably a visual or a demo or a figma report or an MVP or probably even a Q&A? Kevin, can you show us something?!
It sounds like Kevin is following the “how to get your target market to pay you to create the article” plan that he laid out on this podcast several years ago.
As Lawrence Ladomery has problems in his reaction, it is a great way to externalize the financial probability of failure. Kev has attracted a lot of attention for his vitality. Then again at the end of the day, he will have to get it back on its feet with, you know, a real product.
Can Kev and the workers corps make Etch happen? Promising to build something that can replace everything else is a big statement. I guess we’ll just have to wait a few years and then decide.
Congratulations on your funding round, Patchstack!
Meanwhile, Patchstack, a real product, has secured $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Karma Ventures, with additional investment from G+D Ventures and Emilia Capital, the investment firm of Yoast founders Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt.
Patchstack, based primarily in Estonia, is a cybersecurity startup that saves developers from sleepless nights by helping them quickly decide, prioritize, and mitigate new vulnerabilities. Its “virtual patches” instantly deploy protection to your website, a bit like having a Kevin McCallister by your side 24/7, setting booby traps for any pesky cyber bandits.
Patchstack has simply introduced its free, EU-funded tool in recent years, which is helping open source tool vendors comply with the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act. Today, over 5 million websites are scanned with Patchstack and their customers include big names like GoDaddy, Plesk/cPanel and Digital Ocean.
Their incredibly impressive access to vulnerability knowledge is based on a gamified virus bounty program that attracts an army of ethical hackers to hunt down vulnerabilities. (If you consider yourself a virus hunter, the top spot each month wins $2,000!)
We have two tickets to heaven, wouldn’t you like to stay in touch on The Hub tonight…
We have two tickets to heaven, wouldn’t you like to stay in touch on The Hub tonight… We have a marvel, especially for you
Something developers and companies want to do
You’ve waited so long, you’ve waited so long…
You’ve waited so long, you’ve waited so long…
We will eliminate those long chains of email correspondence
And a simple pricing system, boy, that’s all it is anyway.
You’ve waited so long, you’ve waited so long…
You’ve waited so long, you’ve waited so long…
Blogging Ideas Key Points and Stats
- Perfect security practices suggest automatic plugin updates, so again in line with the annual wordpress security survey revealed via Melapress, only 30% of those who are thinking about plugin or theme related security issues have automatic updates enabled. Get on with it! (Source)
- The Gender Equality in wordpress Trade document is out and the effects don’t look promising, other people. Of the 200 companies that have committed to strengthening 5 for the future, only 4% are led by women. (Supply)
- Some eye-catching statistics about wordpress Contribution Smartly Being Dashboard. For example, WP 6.6 has 38% new developers. (Supply)
- WP 6.6.2 is out and it contains 15 bug fixes in Core and 11 inside the Block Editor. Hurray! (Supply)
(Supply)Deep Dive: Simple Context Switching as a wordpress Developer
Context switching is actually a pain and will sap your productivity as a developer. Gloria Mark found in her study of “The Value of Interrupted Paintings” that it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the process after a mental channel switch.
Every time you want to have to switch between tasks, languages, equipment, or even relatively numerous types of activities similar to coding, debugging, or verbally changing the consumer, you will have to “reload” your thoughts with all the information about the new process. And in line with a Collaboration Learn more via Livecycle, almost 50% of developers are struggling with this inconvenience in their delivery workflows.
So how do you avoid that loss of momentum and keep yourself in a state of deep painting? Here are some tips:
- Set aside days without meetings, or at least huge blocks of time when you’re not available. As Paul Graham wrote in his 2009 essay on the Maker’s Agenda, “A single meeting can blow an entire afternoon into two parts, each too small to laboriously do the rest.”
- Break a large challenge into smaller, clearly defined tasks, then complete equivalent tasks together in a batch.
- Use build and task tools like Webpack, Gulp, and Grunt to automate repetitive tasks, so you can focus on the more complex parts of your challenge.
- Consider using Docker or local development environments to isolate wordpress tasks, ensuring each has its own non-public configuration and environment, thus avoiding the need to switch between different server configurations.
- Slack Do Not Disturb is your perfect friend when you want to get some art done without interruptions. Your team of workers don’t need you to correct them right now. They can handle the asynchronous verbal change.
- When you WANT to avoid rushing, take lots of notes on yourself or check out your interstitial journal, so you can easily resume your train of thought when you return. (Jerry Ng says this is the best thing he’s ever done in his career.)
Blogs and Assets You Shouldn’t Overlook
Josepha Haden Chomphosy gets nostalgic on the wordpress Briefing podcast, as she seems to be back on her very first wordpress website and everything that has changed since then. (Please note that some of you may feel very behind on GeoCities.)
The conversation about translations continues with Matthias Pupillo’s look at the WPTavern Podcast. What do you think? Would you consider AI to translate your website?
Check out this incredible story told by Marc Benzakein on the WP Builds podcast about a hacker who asked for $40,000.
Starting next month, two-factor authentication will likely be mandatory for all plugin and theme authors, so it will be imperative to have everything set up before then.
The “%-Guy Rule” is a fantastic tip not only for WordCamp events, but also for making new friends in any social setting.
Harmful Coffee Distractions
The typing pace of the average person is 40 wpm. See how you rate.
Wikipedia’s six levels guide you through the wikihole between two topics you select.
This online website tracks what happens every 2d on the web. It’s really cool, mind-blowing.
If you’re quoting a client for a business and they keep insisting it’s great, fast, and affordable… send it here.
This sarcastic and pretentious AI judges your tracking style and criticizes your enthusiastic and responsible listening.
And last but certainly not least, this absolute UNIT of a penguin baby. Enjoy.
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