Ben Dwyer on why writing code is like solving a Rubik’s cube.
It’s been a long road, but the WordPress mobile apps are finally making some major strides. WordPress iOS version 4.8 includes a visual editor so you won’t see code anymore when blogging on the go. (For anyone curious at home, WordPress originally shipped with WYSIWYG in version 2.0, and it was highly controversial at the time.)
Calvin Owens
Picked up a fresh box of reeds today. In about two weeks I’ll be in the recording studio with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra. Looking forward to it. 🙂
More Pings!
93,548 pings yesterday… so close! I know you guys can do better than that. The assignment for the day is to tell at least two people on your blogroll about Pingomatic.
Scott Berkun asks Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?
Josh Kopelman on why raising a Series A is harder than ever, and how startups can adapt to survive the changing investment landscape. Fantastic essay, relevant for every company raising money at any stage.
The New Yorker has a great overview as Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty.
Microsoft Expression
Microsoft Expression, a free vector image tool for Macs and PCs. Hat tip: Cheryl Wise.
photojunkie
Rannie is in the middle of his Blogger Week pictures and today I make an appearance. Thanks Rannie. 🙂
XML Content Sink
“The XML content sink is non-incremental, so, all XML documents start laying out only after the entire content model has been constructed.” That includes XHTML documents sent with application/xhtml+xml. You just can’t win. Hat tip: Henri Sivonen.
No Recording
Well it looks like I won’t be recording with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra in two weeks. The person I was replacing in the band showed up to the rehearsal and it turns out there had been a misunderstanding with he band leader. I’m still going to be joining the band in a few weeks, but I won’t be on their upcoming CD.
Sterling Party
Bruce Sterling on his post-SxSW part. I was there, but now feel like I missed a lot. Hat tip: Joe Clark.
NewsForge Review
A great review of WordPress at Newsforge is up, very thorough and covers a lot of the resources at the Codex.
100k
Podz caught the counter at 100,000 yesterday, of course the party tonight is going to be a lot of fun. We might need to call it the 105k party though.
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
John Perry Barlow’s classic A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.
The CEO of Automattic worked with the co-founder of WordPress directly, mediated by the head of the WordPress Foundation. Matt Mullenweg said the meetings were very productive.
As inside-baseball WordPress-focused April Fools go, this one is pretty funny: WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web.
Seattle Meetup Location
Okay so it looks like the best place in terms of size, price, and location of those suggested is The Pike Pub & Brewery which sounds like a fun, laid-back place perfect for a meetup. Thanks to Scott and Jane for suggesting it. Still going to meet at 1 PM. It looks like there are going to be some great people attending, so it should be a lot of fun. Oh, and the tag for today is “wordpressmeetup“. 🙂
Adam Trachtenberg
Stewart Ugelow writes in that “Adam Trachtenberg, eBay’s technical evangelist and author of O’Reilly’s
“Upgrading to PHP 5”, has switched to WordPress.”
Geek Lunches Dangerous
Scoble got in trouble for the very long geek lunch/meetup last Saturday in Seattle. He also relates a funny story from the afternoon. We had about 15 people come and go during the meetup and it was a lot of fun — thanks to all who came out.