Today I learned that Automattic and WPEngine are at it[^1]. I picked up on this spat catching up in my reader this morning. I read the lawsuit, some other opinions, and watched a couple interviews. It's not exactly your typical business spat and the part I find most interesting is the relationship to open source software.
Today I learned that a website using Drupal as a CMS is almost twice as likely to have a good web vitals score than one using the most popular headless systems like Contentful or Sanity1.
Today I learned to upgrade this site to Docusaurus v3.0.01 and there were some breaking changes that had to be fixed2,3.
Today I learned to use Adobe Firefly1. I was scanning through the annual Adobe Max2 conference presentations so I upgraded Illustrator and whipped up this graphic in about five minutes while watching one.
Today I learned that Stack Exchange only uses 23 servers 1. An essay entitled Death By A Thousand Microservices 2 came through my reader from Hacker News where I picked up the link to the Stack Exchange setup.
Today I learned a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for the WordPress 6.3 command palette1,2,3. I actually learned quite a bit more while migrating several sites over from another website vendor. I was able to completely duplicate the previous designs with only a few custom patterns and lines of CSS using the default Twenty Twenty-Three theme blocks.
Today I learned that my old man got around Nashville in 1972.
Today I learned to use Figma Dev Mode in VS Code. I got a notification in my feed reader yesterday about the Figma Dev Mode1 announcement so I dove in to give it a test run last night. I’m in because of how it’ll allow me to speed up the design iteration process without having to leave my text editor. Figma for VS Code gives me the same features of browser developer tools that I can share with anyone in real time instead of sharing my screen on video calls. It’ll give my less technical collaborators an easy way to make adjustments and comments without all of the screenshots in emails.