The well respected WordPress security company, Patchstack, received $5M in funding from Emilia Capital. Also, Joost de Valk, co-founder of Yoast will be joining their board.

The WordPress Five for the Future website has been redone using Gutenberg. It looks pretty sharp. I imagine it was done with core blocks and extra CSS.

Paul Charlton jumps ahead to look at the future of the admin dashboard based on current experiments in the Gutenberg plugin. It looks like a good step forward.

Lemon Squeezy is known as an easy to use platform for independent developers for selling their digital products. The platform has been acquired by Stripe.

I’ll admit that the title of this article pulled me in. It makes a good point, though is a bit long winded.

Automattic wins a freedom of speech case in Turkish Constitutional Court. I wasn’t aware that they were very active in response to take-down orders. (lol, the article is by “Clicky Steve”)

In the “it’s not even the weekend” category, I just played DOOM via the WordPress Playground.

In this tutorial Jeff Starr tells of two ways lockdown plugin, theme, and core files to prevent changes to them from within the WordPress admin.

Stuart Carbery of the Dollie team asked that I share their announcement about a partnership with Atarim. It looks like a good opportunity for synergy.