Sometimes, in a developer Slack chat, you want to shrug. For those times, this, to copy and paste…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That is all for today.
Web & Tech
Upgraded to PHP 7.2, without losing an eye
I upgraded this site to PHP 7.2 and nothing broke at all… which was nice.
Answered first question on Stack Exchange in nearly 5 years!
I just posted an answer onto Stack Exchange for the first time in nearly 5 years… you can find my WordPress Stack Exchange profile here, …
Various Changes and speed enhancements
In case you were following along, a few more changes have gone in here, at this site, because here is where I have license to do things my way.
Why blocking, banning or removing EU customers is not an effective response to GDPR
As I’ve been working a good amount on GDPR over the past few long months, there are a few areas of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) around the subject area to which there really aren’t enough sensible posts.
Learn Shopify SEO
My friend and Silicon Dales colleague, Jono Farrington, has made a terrific course for people looking to learn all about Shopify SEO.
WooCommerce 3.5.3 Released – Fixes WP 5.0.2 Order Table Missing Issue
The WooCommerce core team just shipped WooCommerce 3.5.3, which is really a 1 issue patch release, which resolves the not-so-insignificant issue of the Orders list table (in wp admin) going missing on upgrade to last night’s WordPress 5.0.2 release.
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.
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.
Subscribe to Runner’s World magazine – discounts of up to 62% off
An offer in the middle of summer – which is not when people tend to subscribe to magazines – which might be of interest to …