Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Facebook has announced that its Instant Articles program will be open to publishers “of any size, anywhere in the world” starting on April 12, 2016. And with the free plugin we’re unveiling today, you’ll be able to prepare your self-hosted or VIP WordPress for the demands of this new channel. Install it now from GitHub (it’s…
Women confident enough in their abilities to overcome the gender bias may well be, on the whole, more qualified and thus more likely to produce clean code.Jacob Ammentorp Lund/Thinkstock A recent study that is both heartening and maddening has found that women’s contributions to open-source software are more likely to be accepted than those…
All our plugins, including our Yoast SEO plugin, are open source. In the true meaning of open source, we don’t just open the source code, other people actively contribute to its betterment. We actively work on getting other people’s patches in and reserve time on every release to make sure we can handle community patches. We love doing…
When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudiced against code written by women. After all, women make up a very small percentage of software developers – 11.2% according to one 2013 survey – and the…
The WP REST API team met yesterday in the #core-restapi Slack channel to discuss the status of the existing post, term, user, and comment endpoints. There are a few outstanding issues with these four core objects, which the team wants to tackle via a feature plugin approach instead of holding the API back from merge….
All, I’ve decided to withdraw the CoC RFC. There are many reasons for it, but there are a few points I want to make. As to the content of the RFC, when I initially proposed it, I selected the Contributor Covenant due to it being a well adopted standard. Several people raised objections to…
PressForward 3.8 Written by Amanda Regan, January 13th, 2016 Last week the PressForward team released PressForward 3.8. Our latest release includes numerous bug fixes and enhances the functionality of the Nominate This bookmarklet, user permissions, and OPML functionality. Notably, the functionality of the Send to Draft button, located in All Content, has been restored. Also included in our…
Improving Post New Before I get into it, I’m going to need help to get some of these projects going. If you see something you’re interested in working on, let me know in the comments. The following project proposals are not intended to be a single feature plugin because they are separate projects with separate…
My post about leaving the FreeBSD community has now been viewed significantly more than when I posted about being SWATed. While I expected people to take notice, that surprised me. There’s been a lot of feedback, and I’ve been watching all of it. It’s gone about as well as I guessed it would. There’s been…
I’ve been trying to publish this post for 5 months. It’s been sitting in my queue, and I’ve been too worried about fallout to publish it, despite the support of friends familiar with the situation. But I’m not going to enter 2016 knowing that I was too scared to do something. So here it is….