Core CSS is now flexible and powerful enough that CSS preprocessors like Sass and LESS are no longer needed. Famous designer Jo Sprague, who led the redesign of the Firefox website, says that the dream of CSS Zen Garden has been realized.

Here is a summary of new features that will be included in PHP 8.6. I’m not sure of the use for Partial Functions. Defaults for read-only properties, clamp, a polling API and stream error handling seem like solid features.

We see lots of amazing new projects being shared in our group and being developed by its members. I am often asked to check out a new plugin or product and so I made a checklist of the things I look for. Hopefully it will be useful, especially for new developers getting started.

This review of the challenges and possible solutions to collaborative editing in WordPress explains why the feature was removed from 7.0 and talks about some experimental solutions.

For all of the issues, etc, they are doing something right. Every time I see a big site using WP, they are also using Yoast.

Core is moving away from naming themes by year. This one is supposed to be a minimalistic blog theme that is easily customizable.

The post seems to indicate that they will be doing so monthly from now on.

This nice video by Kevin Powell looks at two newly baseline CSS functions, sibling-count() and sibling-index(). Although it is baseline, still only 83% adoption.

Some things that jumped out at me were that a large number of site owners don’t have a response plan and 17% discover a security problem because a notice on a search engine.