Not WordPress, but may be of interest to founders. Paul Graham on “Founder’s Mode”. Managing a company after it has been growing. The traditional wisdom isn’t working.

This blog post from Tammie Lister reflects on her sponsorship to work on default themes. It gives a bit of insight into working in a sponsored position. It also is partly letting people know she is available to be sponsored.

Alex Denning from Ellipsis talks about Google’s monopoly and how Google is slowing down the rollout of AI.

This is an interesting post that provides insight into being a WordPress core committer. Remember to say thank you 🙂

Mike McAlister shares about the launch of the Pro version of the Ollie theme and about developing a product for the site editor.

WordPress 6.6 is set to be released. In this video Adam Preiser looks at the new features and then shares his take on why a lot of the new features will not be used. This is sure to be controversial in some circles, but Adam joins the “lets get real” chorus.

Mark Westguard was recently on the Do the Woo show and he shared some good points that plugin developers launching a product will find useful.

Hardcore SEO – There were recently some Google document leaks about its indexing and ranking systems. As some have suspected, Google representatives have mislead the public related to ranking factors. This article takes a pretty deep look into the leaded information and is not for the light of heart. Nevertheless, it is interesting and revealing.

Today is the WordPress 21st birthday. Matt shares some general opinions about things that helped WordPress to be successful in the early days that we should hang onto today.