I had some fun this morning with the Google team at Wordcamp Europe in Berlin. Google are promoting web speed at Wordcamp Europe – specifically helping webmasters to speed up their WordPress websites.
Category archives: Blog Posts
This is the “blog posts” category, it is for blog posts which are generic in nature and not specifically about anything that can legitimately be categorised, so pretty much, most items that are published.
Jon Snow: Britain a “Laughing Stock” because of Brexit
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, journalist Jon Snow (not the Game of Thrones character) has been manhandling mealy-mouthed politicians on national TV.
Brexit Yoga
It seems like the Irish and the Australians are enjoying Brexit a lot… well, a lot more than we here in Britain are!
TLDR: Cheltenham Festival 2019 Tips
Okay, so there’s a great big huge (tautology, yum) Cheltenham Festival 2019 Tips item online at LBP… But for those of you with normal human attention spans, maybe you just want a tip for each race at Chelters? Read on below. No more waffle. Just free tips!
Gold Standard: Horse Racing on the Web
For those in the know, it’s Gold Cup week and the internet is a-flurry with coverage of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival meet where the cream of the horse racing world gather for top-class Group 1 racing.
WordPress 5.0.3 is Live
The latest version of WordPress – WP 5.0.3 – went live on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and it’s working fine and as expected on my site here, and several clients who have minor version updates turned on.
Backward Compatibility Vs Technical Debt
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.
WordPress Governance Project to Launch 15 Jan 2019
Another one of those quick announcement posts, but this one is really important and an interesting step in the right direction for the Open Source WordPress community.
UK & European Equivalent to RobinHood Fee-Free Share Purchase & Trading App
Is there a UK equivalent to the Robinhood share trading app which allows fee-free share trading and buy & sell transactions?
Complete 2019 New Year’s Honours List
The 2019 New Year’s Honours List was published today, on 29 December 2019, and in case you wanted to see the full list, without it being in a PDF, I’ve published it below – minus all the ads and other slowness that mainstream news media will surround their honours list content with. Navigating the Complete […]