Intention - sustainable web design

PHP updates are on the way from our hosting provider. Hosting clients - feel free to open a ticket if you have any issues with your site byintention.co/insights/php...

The next Nottingham 'People Planet Pint' meetup is on 3rd November www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nottingham...

NEST (Newark enviromental sustainability together) Repair cafe – October 2026 econotts.org/event/nest-n...

Oof - not sure if this points at good or bad things to come for WordPress 🤷‍♂️ Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' www.404media.co/wordpress-au...

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Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Kahuna Cart for GravCMS coming soon - hopefully this will be a faster, cleaner alternative to WooCommerce and Shopify getgrav.org/blog/kahunac... #gravcms #ecommerce

Autotrader's 1 out of 5 green rating for Land Rover 😅

The new client-side media processing in WordPress 7.1 looks nifty make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07... #wordpress #webdev

Absolutely wild WordPress hacks here - update your WordPress sites ASAP! This is going to be a growing problem as hackers use AI to find new and exciting ways to attack WordPress. thehackernews.com/2026/07/expo... github.com/Icex0/wp2she... #wordpress

Saw this at the weekend - a real wake up call. Thought it was presented really well by Chris Packham chatting to everyday folks about the short clips from the experts www.nebriefing.org

Staggering numbers here 😮 Nice site design though & built with Kirby CMS ( @getkirby.com ) - a much leaner option than WordPress investinginclimatechaos.org

Working on a simple page builder for Grav CMS v2, for those small business sites that don't need the complexity, update overhead (and now AI slop) of WordPress #gravCMS #webDev

Excited to see this "open_slate" tablet project from Brax - a modular repairable tablet that supports various operating systems including Android Open Source and Linux 😀 www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

@ecotalk.bsky.social service was fantastic today. Barely on hold then a lovely lady fixed my billing issue 👏 EcoTalk is an example of what's possible when companies don't just chase shareholder returns, great work @dalevince.com

Just grabbed a bunch of Miniml refills from Ora Designs in Long Eaton - zero waste shop and hand crafted wooden bits for your home www.instagram.com/ora.wooden.d...

Some nice open source resources for design work here mindfuldesign.xyz/toolkit/intro/

I live and work from my narrowboat Thin Lizzy, and she now has a solar setup that powers my work day ☀️ byintention.co/sustainable-...

How we removed all 3rd party tracking for a healthcare client - alternatives to Google fonts, Analytics and reCaptcha byintention.co/switching-to...

The MMC Repair Café is a free community event, managed by the Fix it Group 23 and located at the MMC Café, focused on repairing things. thefixitgroup23.com/mmcv-repair-...

If you're sick of the animated gifs in the WordPress plugin installer screen, this stops them 👍 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anima...

If you're having trouble importing WordPress sites to LocalWP on Ubuntu 24 with a 'libaio' related MySQL error, this will probably fix it community.localwp.com/t/unable-to-...

Docker didn't make any sense to me and Docker Desktop kept filling my drives up. Portainer (community edition) finally helped me get to grips with it! www.portainer.io/resources/ge...

LocalSend is an Airdrop alternative that works cross platform. Working great for me on Mac, Linux and iPhone localsend.org

Breaston repair cafe 7th of March - jewellery, watches, small electricals, sewing and bikes breastonrepair.cafe

Found out why I dislike dark mode aside from it being harder to design well - I have an astigmatism like 50% of folks hlockeux.substack.com/p/why-dark-m...

Outputting web pages to PDF using JS = 50% elation and 50% shouting at the screen

Just migrated a client site from WordPress to Grav CMS - getgrav.org - and while it was a learning curve, it's a much better fit for their small, rarely updated site. Pageload is faster and no more WP updates required!

🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉 💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!

What are datacentres doing to the UK’s 2030 clean power goals? Good points about moving our grid away from fossil fuels vs just enabling more AI datacentres... www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/what-ar...

Lol bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Free version of 'Prime Mover' worked perfectly to split out a WordPress site from a multisite install (And they seem to love planes 🤷‍♂️) wordpress.org/plugins/prim...

Affinity design/illustration/photo suite is now free to use and had over a million downloads in a week - a real alternative to Adobe's price gouging monopoly petapixel.com/2025/10/30/a...

Put ZorinOS on a 2016 Macbook Air and it's fantastic - modern design, Bluetooth keyboard just worked and apps easy to install 👌 If your old Mac or Windows 10 PC isn't getting OS updates any more, Linux could keep them running for longer. zorin.com/os/

This piece suggests Meta is dragging its heels on reducing the (very large) number of scam ads on its services because they're concerned it will materially hurt revenue (the article estimates they make as much as $16bn a year from scam ads) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

[🔉Open Letter] We join EDRi and 125 organizations in raising concerns over the forthcoming #EU digital omnibus proposals. Now is NOT the time to give up hard-won protections for digital human rights. Read the letter 👉 www.whattofix.tech/publications...

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Venice AI copywriters aren't messing around 😮

With Apple and Microsoft's greed pushing millions of laptops towards landfill, I keep as many as I can alive with Linux. Already rescued about a dozen (most went to local schools) and have a Lenovo and 2017 Macbook Pro to do next. byintention.co/laptop-phone...

It is a pivotal moment in our history. So what needs to happen at COP30? 💰 Climate Damages Tax to make the polluters pay ⚖️ Fund climate justice for the Global South ❌ Keep fossil fuels in the ground 🌳 End deforestation by 2030 ⏩ Global just transition now

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term. piccalil.li/blog/program...

Today, security support for Windows 10 ends, rendering up to 400 million computers unsecure to use in the largest case of premature, planned obsolescence to date. Latest blog from Ugo Vallauri, co-director @therestartproject.org, on why this is such a big issue and what's being done to solve it:

SVG boilerplate logos, handy for design mockups logoipsum.com

"Resilient systems should layer these tools intentionally. Let Sass handle the design decisions that won’t change […] while CSS variables manage any dynamicism required." CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/css...

If you've lost the pink guides when aligning items in the latest version of Sketch; forum.sketch.com/t/lost-auto-... #sketchApp #webDesign

Nottingham Green Festival this Sunday nottmgreenfest.org.uk #nottingham #sustainability

Just had an exciting conversation about designing a new website for an equine led therapist, that uses the horses to help Neurodivergent teens 🐴 #webDesign #therapy

ALTCHA provides a free, open-source Captcha alternative - various versions including self hosted and WordPress plugin. ReCaptcha is annoying and 300kb+ which slows down your site altcha.org #webDevelopment #wordPress

CERN has adopted WordPress as their content management system... wordpress.docs.cern.ch