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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, while many in the media were hedging their bets and wringing their hands in their coverage of the rapidly escalating protests over the murder of George Floyd, I was proud that we ran an appropriately uncompromising take from our own Tim Cushing: Let…

There are many stupid things about copyright law today, and one of them is how copyright law applies to characters. Because it shouldn’t, at least not in the ways it does. Copyright can legitimately apply to expression, which is why it can restrict you from copying, for example, a book…

The most telling detail in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga isn’t what the DOJ is claiming — it’s what a federal prosecutor refused to do. Ben Schrader, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and chief of the criminal division, abruptly resigned rather than put his name…

Mike Judge always seemed to have secret geek sympathies. He co-created the HBO series Silicon Valley, as well as the movie Office Space (reviewed in 1999 by Slashdot contributor Jon Katz). Now comes the word that besides rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer — and an animated scifi/action/horror film called Predator:…

LSD "is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction," notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student "has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug..." Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the…

Once upon a time, long-time Slashdot reader tgibson learned how to type on a manual typewriter, back in an 8th grade classroom. And to this day, they write, "my bias is to nod approvingly at touch typists and roll my eyes at those who need to stare at the keyboard…

Cats Don’t Talk We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language…

Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of decades-long research found the average person’s attention span for a single screen…

Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of decades-long research found the average person’s attention span for a single screen…

Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of decades-long research found the average person’s attention span for a single screen…

Samsung's new Discover Samsung sale is still going on this weekend, and it includes savings on monitors, TVs, Galaxy products, and more. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Samsung. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the…

Best Buy is hosting a new "Apple Shopping Event" this weekend, with major discounts across MacBook Air, iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad, and Apple Watch. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Best Buy. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which…

Apple's big week is almost here, with WWDC 2025 kicking off on Monday with what we're expecting to be a jam-packed look at the company's software platforms, including some redesigns and rebranding. While we're not expecting any imminent hardware launches to come out of WWDC, we're just three months away…

From space travel to military operations to the future of green energy, the U.S. has become reliant on Elon Musk's business empire. But it won't be easy for the government to end its reliance on Musk.

The blow up marks the end of an alliance between the president and the billionaire that lasted far longer than many observers expected.

The company said China and other nations are covertly trying to use chatbots to influence opinion around the world. In one case, operatives also used the tools to write internal performance reports.

It's early June, which means it's time for a ton of video game events! Rising from the ashes of E3, Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest is now the premium gaming event of the year, just inching ahead of… Geoff Keighley's Game Awards in December. Unlike the show it replaced, Summer…

Camper Van: Make it Home has everything you'd want out of a home-decorating simulator, but it's all on wheels and slightly miniaturized, and something about that combination is extra peaceful. The game is available on Steam right now, following a surprise drop during the Wholesome Games Showcase, which is part…

There's a new shop management sim in town. Discounty will be released on August 21 for PC, Switch, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The game tasks players with managing a discount supermarket in a bustling town. The core gameplay loop reminds me of the shopkeeper portion of Moonlighter, but…

Ione Wells visits the Rubin Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.

Experts say his tech empire needs more of Musk's attention - but also the continued custom of the government.

More than 3,000 people have reported problems during what is the latest in a long line of banking IT failures.

I’m a lot better informed now – the company formerly called ATHOM now have IoTorero (get it? Iot) branding on their smartplug boxes – and I now have three different types. The boxes all have the same product number on them (confusingly) – Model PG01 – but on the actual……

After an interesting week that included one of my smartplugs failing (turning on a loud fan at midnight) I’m pleased to say the above-named plug has arrived. The troublesome plug was a Meross MSS310 – though as it turns out, after I decided to investigate cosmic rays, the supposedly duff……

I’ll not re-iterate detail about the work on a ping tester I’ve been slaving over, using up all my spare time for the past week as it is in the previous blog entry, but here are thoughts worth showing re: the experience. So, several things… the ESP8266, long claimed to……

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from all of them: what would Steve (Jobs) say?  Steve would call the Vision Pro a…

Sorry I’ve been away: time flies when you are not having fun. But now I’m back. Moore’s Law, which began with a random observation by the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that transistor densities on silicon substrates were doubling every 18 months, has over the intervening 60+ years been both…

My son Cole, pictured here as a goofy kid many years ago, is now six feet six inches tall and in college. Cole needed a letter of recommendation recently so he turned to an old family friend who, in turn, used ChatGPT to generate the letter, which he thought was…

Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage at a little basement club called Caveat, here in New York. Starting with an ingredient in breastmilk that babies can’t digest, a global hunt that takes us from Bangladesh to the Mennonite communities here in…

Seismic, totally unpredictable discoveries often happen in unexpected research projects, but government funded research has experienced budget slashes en masse. What are we risking with these cuts? This week, we tell the story of one such piece of research that fundamentally changed the trajectory of modern science.

Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffers from a problem that not only puts his life at risk, it jeopardizes the safety of everybody around him. But with the…

Reach is a cinematic action-adventure that aims to be nDreams' most ambitious game yet, launching this year on all major platforms.

Wordomi takes clear inspiration from Wordle, and this casual mixed reality puzzler on Quest has its charms.

Donning a superhero's bloody body is a perfect fit for Quest headsets in Twisted Pixels' Deadpool VR.

During the Future Games Show livestream today, nDreams Elevation unveiled Reach, a VR action-adventure promising full-body parkour, combat against giant baddies, and a surprisingly detailed world. Reach will be the debut title for nDreams Elevation, the company’s internal studio formed in 2022. What’s more, nDreams is calling it the company’s “most ambitious…

Meta’s first-party VR game studio Twisted Pixel revealed its latest upcoming title: Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Set for release later this year, the game is said to feature an all-new, original Deadpool story, with the main character voiced by Neil Patrick Harris. Marvel’s Deadpool VR will be the first game released…

We got an early look at Marvel’s Deadpool VR, the upcoming title from first-party Meta studio Twisted Pixel. You can see our coverage of the game’s announcement, but here’s the deets: Deadpool VR is being developed by Twisted Pixel and planned for release later this year. The game will be…

Today, nDreams revealed their next epic action-adventure VR game named Reach. In this new experience players will climb, jump, and fling with supreme fluidity powered...

Today at Summer Game Fest 2025 we announced Marvel’s Deadpool VR, a Meta Quest 3 and 3S exclusive (lovingly) created by Twisted Pixel and Oculus...

Wordomi takes the structure of crossword puzzles, as well as newer games like Wordle, and adds a twist: the ability to literally flip, turn, and...

Today we’re publishing a position paper setting out five arguments for why we think that kids still need to learn to code in the age of artificial intelligence. Just like every wave of technological innovation that has come before, the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are raising profound questions about…

Bradford was buzzing with excitement this May as over 170 young digital makers from across the UK gathered for Coolest Projects UK 2025 at the Life Centre to celebrate the amazing things young people create with technology. Run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and hosted by BBC science presenter Greg…

From smart devices to workplace tools, AI is becoming part of everyday life and a major part of how people are thinking about the future — raising big questions about access, skills, and readiness. As governments around the world create AI strategies for the decade ahead, many are seeing an…

The Poe Museum will be hosting an immersive creative writing workshop for writers ages 9-12 and 12-15. Check out their event calendar for dates and details! Join us for an engaging and immersive creative writing workshop where we explore the mystery, superstition, and symbolism of black cats – both in…

Various iterations of the Hario V60 via James Hoffmann on YouTube   The V60 pour over coffee dripper is a triumph of engineering and design. It is very surprising to learn the cleverly designed piece of plastic has some origins in a, quite complex, single brew system called the Clover.…

This isn’t quite a Carl Sagan Contact situation, where astrophysicists recive signals from outer space embedded with the design for a transdimensional vehicle, but the signals coming from ASKAP J1832−0911 are certainl strange and certainly unprecedented. Here’s more from 404 Media: It’s tempting to look at these clockwork signals from [ASKAP J1832−0911]…

If you’ve ever printed with flexible filaments, you know the struggle: stringing, filament entanglement, poor bridging and overhangs, ugly surface finish, jams and extrusion problems,... the list goes on. Many of these headaches stem from a notoriously difficult challenge: achieving a... The post Prusament TPU 95A – Now That’s a…

We’re now launching the orders for the MMU3 compatible with the Prusa CORE One. We have two official “flavors” and one special community version. And conversion kits, too! There’s definitely a lot of ground to cover - as always. 🙂 However, before... The post Make your prints shine with colors!…

What happens when you give thousands of students free access to 3D printers? Will they just print Wolverine claws? The Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary opened that door, and the outcome is impressive: students are creating everything... The post How Makerspace at UCalgary Brings Ideas to…

IMPORTANT!:If you decide not to read anything I said, here is what is important to know before printing:If the amount of files is overwhelming and you want to look at everything at once, download 'CompleteCoralReefObjects.3mf' Look at all the images because I put in some instructions and labels for what…

Keep your eggs fresh and neatly organized with this original and practical design. Its clever shape ensures optimal preservation.✔ Base format holds 6 eggs, but...✔ Easily expandable! With the included connectors, you can extend it 6 units at a time, both widthwise and lengthwise.✔ Support-free printing for easier setup and…

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Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"

Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engines in the world. Today, web graphics and rendering hit the accelerator with the release of Babylon.js 8.0.https://medium.com/media/1c7c166e0513ffd34577794c6ef53f86/hrefBabylon.js 8.0 represents a year of new features, optimizations, and performance improvements aimed at helping you create…

Babylon can be used to build just about any kind of 3D or graphical web (or native!) experience. The sky is the limit! That said, a specific but common use case is viewing a single 3D model on a web page. E-commerce is a prime example, where you might just…

One of the fundamental concepts I wanted for Babylon.js from the beginning was to allow users to do what they want in a simple way.Our initial motto was ‘One feature, one line of code,’ and we have tried to stay true to that ideal ever since.The idea was that the user should…

In Part 1, we built a custom button control in Xojo by subclassing DesktopCanvas. In Part 2, we enhanced it with customizable colors, corner radius, and a disabled…

Xojo is an extremely useful, fast and fun development environment for building your first (or next) iOS app. In this article, I offer a series…

In the first part of this tutorial, we built a basic custom button control using the DesktopCanvas class, giving it a custom appearance and handling the basic…

I’m putting Better Programming on hiatus to make room for other programming publications.I get that this is a big pivot given that we switched to a new editor recently. But things are changing at Medium and I think this will ultimately be a boon for everyone, authors, readers and publications.I…

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Node-RED 4.0 is now available to install. If upgrading, please read the upgrade instructions. We’ve highlighted some of the main highlights of the release below. There have also been a large number of community contributions ranging from bug fixes, features, documentation and translations. We wouldn’t be able to do what…

Node-RED 3.1 is now available to install. If upgrading, please read the upgrade instructions. This release is a little overdue to say the least. We released the first beta back in February - thinking it would be the only one we did. But one thing lead to another and, four…

Update: the results are now available here. Back in 2019 we published the results of the 2019 Node-RED community survey. The results painted an interesting picture of the Node-RED community. We think it is time to refresh these results so we are running the survey again. The 2023 survey is…

There is a new PHP release in town!

There is a new PHP release in town!

There is a new PHP release in town!

A new WordCamp and WordPress events app is free to download and helps navigate events for attendees. This article, New WordCamp App, was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.

WordPress Is Moving Again But Can It Regain Trust? Have I Been Pwned Just Got a Whole Lot Better. Reviewing Client Videos? Let Gemini Handle the Summary. And More! This article, Agency News Weekly, was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.

A digest of updates shared in Post Status Slack. This article, The Latest from Post Status Members, was published at Post Status — the community for WordPress professionals.

I’ve been thinking a lot about mimetic formation, how a thought becomes an idea, and how that idea gestates and evolves as it’s progressively shared in wider and wider circles. During a recent product review of Day One, I was struck by how central the app is to my perspective…

A really beautiful interview.

It’s a busy speaking season! I just spoke at the Intelligent Change summit, and will be at SaaStock in Austin on May 14, SXSW London, on June 4, Brilliant Minds in Stockholm, and WordCamp EU in Basel, Switzerland, on June 7.

WP Bulk Plugin Updater automates WordPress plugin updates with individual Git commits, push capabilities, and detailed logging for easy site maintenance.

The two music streaming services I often swap between are Spotify and Apple Music. I prefer Spotify for a number of different reasons, the main reason being I like its music discovery algorithm more than any other service. You have your own for your reasons. But every now and then,…

Automatically remove empty shortcodes or inactive shortcodes from your WordPress content while preserving your original database entries.

Pros and Cons of building modern, digital experiences with two very different approaches—a look at Webflow vs. WordPress. Looking for the best content management system (CMS) is really a matter of finding what’s right for your site, and your business, now and in the future. Which is no easy feat…

Cybersecurity threats aren’t just a concern for large enterprises—small and mid-sized businesses are increasingly being targeted. In fact, a recent study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports that 74% of small-to-mid-sized companies (20–500 employees) see cyber threats as a growing concern. For mid-sized companies without dedicated security teams, a…

Protecting your account is more important than ever. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is one of the best ways to keep yourself secure.  This guide will explain the different MFA options WP Engine supports via our User Portal, how they work, and how they compare in terms of security. What is multi-factor…

Drawing inspiration from Symfony’s Live components, this API is built for speed, extensibility, and server-side rendering and is tailored to seamlessly integrate with the WordPress ecosystem. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a WordPress enthusiast, this talk will empower you to create dynamic, interactive user experiences with ease and clarity.…

The goal of this workshop is to show how easy it is to start testing WordPress projects and enable participants to implement tests in their own projects. In the workshop we will write integration and end-to-end tests for a typical WordPress plugin. We will run tests using WordPress Playground, so…

This empowering session unveils the art of storytelling and how to use the WordPress platform to build a visible and authentic brand. In this session, you’ll learn how to craft your personal narrative and turn it into a powerful tool for business growth online. Key takeaways include: – How storytelling…

On the podcast today we have Felix Arntz who discusses speculative loading, a new WordPress 6.8 feature designed to make websites faster by preloading pages before users navigate to them. Felix explains how it works, why WordPress uses a conservative default setting for broad compatibility, and how more eager configurations…

On the podcast today we have Chris Reynolds. He's a developer advocate at Pantheon, and we're talking about the similarities and differences between the WordPress and Drupal communities. Chris discusses Pantheon's dual focus on both platforms, their approaches to managed hosting, and community event structures. The conversation covers Drupal’s recent…

On the podcast today we have Wes Tatters, and he's here to discuss the evolution of the internet, from early tech days and community-building on platforms like CompuServe, to the emergence of open-source projects and the rise of WordPress. Wes reflects on the transition from closed platforms to owning content…

This is the recording between Matt Mullenweg and Mary Hubbard on stage at WordCamp Europe 2025. They covered everything from regulation in the EU, the FAIR package manager announcement, and new education pathways, to what’s next for WordPress core and...

In this episode, I unpack the big announcement behind FAIR — the Federated and Independent Repository — a new package manager initiative under the Linux Foundation. Scooped by The Repository and launched during WordCamp Europe week, FAIR promises decentralized plugin...

In this episode of the WP Minute Podcast, host Eric Karkovack welcomes Jake Goldman, founder of 10up and now a Partner at Fueled, to talk about a major agency evolution. Jake shares the journey from founding 10up in 2011 to...

Most people think website security means firewalls, complex passwords, or anti-malware software. But the real problem is often much simpler and far easier to... The post Outdated Plugins Are the #1 Way Hackers Get Into WordPress Sites appeared first on Pixel Jar.

You’ve invested in your website. It looks polished. The messaging is tight. You’ve run ads, published content, and maybe even hired a designer. But... The post Why Websites Underperform (And What to Fix Before You Redesign) appeared first on Pixel Jar.

Your website is your business’s front door. But what happens when someone knocks—and no one answers? Here’s the scary truth: Most people don’t know... The post Why Uptime Monitoring Matters More Than You Think appeared first on Pixel Jar.

Sail is a great and much more affordable alternative to traditional and managed WordPress hosting. It’s a free and open source CLI tool to provision and manage WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud. While the 1-click WordPress installer does the job for many DigitalOcean users, it’s very limited for power-users…

Hey folks, hope you’re having a great 2022 so far! I’ve been working on some premium features for Sail CLI over the past few weeks and I would love for you to try them out. Sail Premium is a collection of additional features for Sail CLI, hosted and operated by…

Meet Surge, a brand new page caching plugin for WordPress. It’s extremely fast and has no configuration screens. There is no learning curve, the plugin works just by activating it. Surge stores cache files on the filesystem, leveraging the Linux kernel page cache for efficient in-memory caching and invalidation. In…

Sometime last week, an attempted automated GitLab via Docker upgrade failed catastrophically, and left that Docker image in a pretty botched state. Kudos to the GitLab team for making it so many years without this being a problem. It was a real surprise to see it broken! This took a…

It’s taken about-a-million tiny steps, but as of this moment (2 May, 2024 07:42 UTC-6) this WordPress blog (jjj.blog) and a bunch of other blogs for friends & family are all calling from inside the house running on a cluster of Raspberry Pi 4’s in a server rack in my…

sudo nano /usr/bin/docker_fresh #!/usr/bin/env bash # # Obliterates containers, images, networks, volumes, and cache. # [ $(docker ps | wc -l) -ne 1 ] && echo "Stopping containers..." && docker stop $(docker ps | sed -n '1d;p' | awk -F" " '{print $1}') [ $(docker ps -a | wc -l)…

Do you find yourself micromanaging your team's every move? Are you frustrated when people don't follow your exact instructions? Do you wonder why brilliant employees seem disengaged when given detailed step-by-step procedures? If you've experienced any of these situations, you're likely falling into a common leadership trap: confusing the destination…

Your Best Performers Don't Look Alike for a Reason Every organization has them – those standout performers who consistently deliver exceptional results but approach their work in completely different ways. Like musicians covering the same song, they hit all the required notes but express them through their unique style. What…

What do you already know about hosting WooCommerce stores? When it comes to hosting WooCommerce stores, you may have already read some of my articles on choosing a WordPress host, or how to think about WooCommerce already. But maybe you haven't. Or maybe you read the super sharp article by…