Nick Wilmot

Hilarious listening to broadcast news today trying their best to explain what a PHP vulnerability is, without having the first clue themselves. Something, something, AI, something, reset your passwords, something, hackers, something...

I have to say, this is incredibly slick: generatepress.com/generatebloc...

Forget AI, after 21 major versions of Adobe InDesign, we still can't have a referenced footnote set in a non-threaded frame. Does my head in.

I'm not a fan of email in the browser, I much prefer a mail client. Because I'm now old. After an eon using Airmail on MacOS, a 400% price hike and the increasingly buggy perf moved me on to emClient. Wow, so much faster! It took me several hours to customise the UI mind you. www.emclient.com

Despite checking boxes, confirming cancelation and declining offers begging him to stay, my father has to speak to Ionos on the phone before they will cancel his sub-par email service. Funny they don't insist on a phone call to sign up 😒

Design nerds, make some coffee and behold… youtu.be/kL1PDqzqhM4?...

Folks, you don't need AI to check color contrasts. You also don't need AI, to get suggestions for colors that pass the contrast ratio. It's pure, good, old math formula. Not everything needs to be "AI". Also, here are many, color contrast tools and more to help you build accessible color palettes:

About right. Credit: #stellaandlarry via #Instagram

This looks like a great (and free!) Block Theme learning resource from @mikemcalister.com olliewp.com/lesson/cours...

I've had a busy couple of evenings. I've ported my website to @astro.build with a Headless Wordpress back end (Sorry Umbraco Peeps - I will definitely give it a go in the future) Oh, and I finally wrote a thing - davidbeesley.co.uk/posts/my-key...

When I first stated working in International Development, this is was one of the first things I remember being impacted by. In those days it was via a Gall–Peters projection map we had on the wall in the office.

Apparently, seagulls “dance” like this to mimic the rain and trick worms to come to the surface.

CSS Tip If you want to hide an element that has no children, it's tempting to reach for :empty. However, :empty doesn't work how you'd expect if there's white space or text nodes inside the element. Instead, use this: .your-element:not(:has(:first-child)) { display: none; }

Awesome presentation @keithdevon.com and @markwilkinson.dev at last nights @wpldn.uk.. I love how you build the section nav and the scroll animations. So simple, yet so powerful!

Pretty cool. Shame there's no support for animation-timelime in Safari though.

See you there!

"First Look: Can Loveable.dev build a complex portfolio website?" from @jamiemarsland.bsky.social Interesting to make a cursory comparison of accessibility between the two... The AI version arguably slightly less bad than the original (but it's all React 😬). www.pootlepress.com/2025/02/firs...

Flexbox Labs is a visual tool that helps you create layouts using CSS Flexbox. I like such sandbox tools where you can play around without writing code. I think it’s important for designers to at least understand what flexbox can do. flexboxlabs.netlify.app/

This is cool, two of my favourite WordPress plugins have hooked up! Both have had major updates recently, making them a proper power-couple now. Move over Posh & Becks, Barak & Michelle, Elton and Kiki... S+F Pro & Generate Blocks are where it's at 😂

Another new client today totally unaware of the difference between WordPress OSS and wordpress.com. I wouldn't mind one jot if Open Source WordPress took on a new identity.

For the record, I do not recommend tipping your flat white over your Apple 'Magic' keyboard. It's glued together and impossible to disassemble to clean 🤬

Push notification from Lidl… I wonder if sales of their ‘USA’ range are a little down? 🤔

From the perspective of Brit, it's shocking watching the goings-on in the US. Is the strategy just to burn down much of what made America great? It makes no sense. I dearly hope it's the wakeup call we need as Europeans.

Wow

I've just had to log in to the Meta Business Suite. I feel like I need to undergo some kind cleansing of my soul.

Anyone using Brave browser on a mac having issues with your USB webcam running at low frame rate in Google Meet recently? All fine in Safari. Very odd.

Wishing all the best to those working for NGOs and local partners affected by the immediate pause of USAID funding by the Trump administration. Inconsequential in the grand scheme, but we just has some work cancelled as a result. The client described the action as feeling like the 'nuclear option'.

No sign of the frost today

I’ve been working with WordPress since 2006, and while I have—and will continue to—advocate for the software, it’s the people who matter most. This community is its heartbeat, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to stand with those passionate about shaping its future. 🙏

Never in my years around WordPress have I seen so many folks who build sites for clients openly musing about possible alternatives. The leadership may no longer care for 'the community' or 'the ecosystem', for whatever reason, but it's these two factors that, IMO, give WP its superpowers. It's sad.

This looks interesting. Another contender to challenge WordPress?

Robert Miles' 'Children' just popped up on my Spotify. Can't quite believe is was released 30 years ago this month 😱.

My manifesto for a better 2025: 1. No billionaire to be allowed access to the internet. 2. All techbros must have decisions signed off by a responsible adult. 3. All weapons capable of killing more than one being to be substituted with a basic Nerf gun, or feather duster (in the case of dictators).

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Is there an optimal resolution for sharing images in BSky? Uploading at hi res seems to result in horrific compression being applied (much more so than the bird app).

Took my walk earlier than usual this morning... distinctly frosty!

Design has a function/purpose. Art can exist for its own sake. Don’t use either as a justification for exclusion.

Please, plugin developers, include your product name or trading name in your recurring billing notifications. Non-technical book-keepers etc don't know what the heck 'Rocketgenius' is when they come to do reconciliation 🤪

Fresh MacOS install done. Desk (kinda) tidy. Been out for breakfast now both kids are back at school. Suppose I should do some actual work now.

Doctor and physio have instructed me to walk more… so my motivation it to take and share a photo a day. Here’s the first, from about an hour ago.

On the twelfth day of Devmas, my mutual sent to me: 12 coders coding, 11 pipelines running, 10 loading shimmers, 9 styles cascading, 8 breaking changes, 7 daily stand ups, 6 tests are flakey, 5 we-eb riiings! 4 callbacks passed, 3 code pens, 2 purple <div>s, And a <body> in a DOM tree.

Finally deactivated my Twitter account today, having joined back in 2009. Kinda therapeutic. (If you've had a apparently random follow from me just now over there, it is in fact me. I moved my old handle to a new account to keep it from being re-used and followed a few WP folks)

Discovered today that you can now secure any app with FaceID on iOS 18. Helpful with the proliferation of scrotes snatching phones while unlocked. Crucially, works with Mail. Simply long-press an app icon to enable.