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Releasing Keel 0.6.6 — get full control over auto-updates and create an upgrade policy for #wordpress — plus 38 other straightforward settings. badsector.blog/keel-defaults/
Get Keel Defaults for smooth sailing with WordPress
Keel adds 39 configurable WordPress defaults, shows their real state in Site Health, and identifies the security patch for your own release line.
badsector.blog
September 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM
danknauss.bsky.social
Do not, in order to do.

Only when a person will not do some things are they capable of doing great things.
Do not, in order to do.
Only when a person will not do some things are they capable of doing great things.
m.arginalia.com
September 14, 2026 at 12:44 AM
danknauss.bsky.social
he helped do exactly that. kept the torture and secret cia prisons going, which he had promised to close. was the first pres to OK extrajudicial assassination of citizens. his imbecilic comment here is imperialist to the core -- presuming ofc it's our job to sternly manage these muslim troglodytes.
August 24, 2026 at 4:35 AM
danknauss.bsky.social
The New WordPress Dev Toolbox: Local-First, Agent-Assisted, Terminal-Shipped

The last few weeks have been fantastic for anybody who builds plugins and themes for WordPress. Three tools dropped…

https://wpyeg.org/2026/06/24/the-new-wordpress-dev-toolbox-local-first-agent-assisted-terminal-shipped/
The New WordPress Dev Toolbox: Local-First, Agent-Assisted, Terminal-Shipped
The last few weeks have been fantastic for anybody who builds plugins and themes for WordPress. Three tools dropped that, stacked together, cover the whole build and deploy process: spin up a site, build something, ship it to the wp.org directory. No Docker wrangling, no "works on my machine," no SVN tap-dance. 1. WordPress Studio now runs on Linux For years the Studio desktop app was a Mac-and-Windows party.
wpyeg.org
June 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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theonion.com
Milwaukee Removes Fonzie Statue Amid Reckoning With Greaser Past https://theonion.com/milwaukee-removes-fonzie-statue-amid-reckoning-with-greaser-past/
Milwaukee Removes Fonzie Statue Amid Reckoning With Greaser Past
June 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
Want to create bibliographies very easily in #WordPress? Try Borges: wordpress.org/plugins/borg...
Borges Bibliography Builder
Paste a DOI or BibTeX entry — get a formatted, auto-sorted bibliography in any of nine academic citation styles.
wordpress.org
May 5, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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dabeard.bsky.social
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
Over the past 50 years, programming required a fluent coordination of the programmer’s hands and mind. Now they’re being separated again. www.therepository.email/fluency-live...
Fluency Lives in Your Fingers
Over the past 50 years, programming required a fluent coordination of the programmer’s hands and mind. Now they’re being separated again.
www.therepository.email
May 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
The Fediverse cares about Accessibility — and/or it's full of nosy people reading all the code and markup. 😀 turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/1163...
Yehuda TurtleIsland.social (@[email protected])
Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is t...
turtleisland.social
April 17, 2026 at 3:04 AM
danknauss.bsky.social
I half-seriously kept waiting for social media to be identified as the culprit, but these chimp researchers actually have found the solution for polarized and divided humans: we just need a big slappy, run-around-shrieking, mutual grooming party. www.404media.co/worlds-large...
World’s Largest Group of Chimps Waging Deadly ‘Civil War,’ Scientists Discover
At least 24 chimpanzees have been killed in a war that has split the Ngogo group of wild chimpanzees in two, turning former kin into enemies.
www.404media.co
April 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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melapress.bsky.social
In Ep. 47 of The Melapress Show, @danknauss.wtf breaks down what enterprises actually get wrong about WordPress security and where the real risk lives. 

Join in 1 hour 👇 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCJJrEsMPU

#MelapressShow #WordPress #WordPressSecurity #WordPressEnterprise
Melapress
How Enterprises & Businesses Approach WordPress Security | Dan Knauss (Multidots)
www.youtube.com
April 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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manton.org
Terry Godier has a new blog in addition to his main site of longer essays. It looks great. Hosted by Micro.blog. 🎉
March 25, 2026 at 9:34 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
In the spirit of Mierle Laderman Ukeles ("After the revolution, who's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?") and Stewart Brand ("When you take responsibility for something, you enter into a contract to take care of it"), let's support a future for the Open Web.
www.every.org/osendowment
www.every.org
March 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
How to do diffs with printed books: www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

The Hinman Collator: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinman_...
Hinman, Redux | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
March 7, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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maxnovem.art
I talk often about breaking out of walled gardens, that you don't have to be on corporate-web in order to be on the web.

This is a fantastic article about the problem and how to (pretty easily) fight it. Well worth reading.

Also, @strange.website is a rad human being.

henry.codes/writing/a-we...
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
February 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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nathanwrigley.com
This Week in WordPress #366

This episode of TWiW covers the latest in WordPress, with a strong focus on AI advancements, new products, and features expected in WordPress 7. The discussion includes updates on community events, challenges with in-person meetups post-pan
wpbuilds.com/2026/02/17/t...
February 17, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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baldurbjarnason.com
this is fine

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

> So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

> I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.
Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])
Today in InfoSec Job Security News: I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basic...
cyberplace.social
February 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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molly.wiki
Their "more efficient" process than having writers write:

• AI identifies possible stories
• Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
• Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
• Another person fact-checks/edits
• Reporter reviews
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Feb 16
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.

Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”

You can’t make this shit up.

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain
February 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
Always fun and informative! We got killed at Wordly by @michellefrechette.bsky.social too. I think she got more points than all of us combined.
nathanwrigley.com Nathan Wrigley @nathanwrigley.com · Feb 16
Join us LIVE in a couple of hours for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Starts at 2pm UK time.
wpbuilds.com/live
Join Nathan Wrigley, Mark Westguard, Dan Knauss, Ahmed Kabir Chaion. @danknauss.wtf
WP Builds LIVE - Watch us live!
Watch us LIVE over at WP Builds. Something WordPress related coming your way!
wpbuilds.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
Long-awaited from @stewartbrand.bsky.social 🛠️
February 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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michellefrechette.bsky.social
We're looking for 15 women in tech from all over the world to interview live on International Women's Day in our livestream! Sign up on our site. Let me know if you have any questions.

www.underrepresentedintech.com/iwd26/
International Womens Day 2026
www.underrepresentedintech.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
danknauss.bsky.social
"Shadow work" is a great concept, not just from Jung but also Ivan Illich, who used it to refer to a major source of Big Tech's Jungian shadow: requiring more and more free labour from the consumer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...
January 31, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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rebeccawilliams.info
Subscribe to my new ~biweekly newsletter, Tech Shadow Work, where I will write about the unspoken "shadow" behind tech policy discourse: rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to Tech Shadow Work
Tech Shadow Work launches in 2026 as a biweekly newsletter. Each issue uses a recent moment in technology or tech policy to examine its shadow, asking what these decisions reveal about societal power ...
rebeccawilliams.info
January 7, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
danknauss.bsky.social
And the latest edition of the Web Almanac is out again! Always a pleasure to help out with the highly #WordPress -focused CMS chapter.
httparchive.org HTTP Archive 💾 @httparchive.org · Jan 16
The 2025 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive has been officially released! 🚀

We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible!

Check out the full report here: almanac.httparchive.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM