In the not WordPress, but useful department – Here are some nice browser dev tool tips. The author of the article maintains a site with these and the ones in the article are the most popular.

This is an interesting initiative, the idea is a “guild” for WordPress product owners to help with product positioning, pricing, and best practices. The interview provides information about the background and goals of the project.

Reusable Blocks are becoming Patterns with a sync option. The change will be included in WordPress 6.3.

Google is requiring everyone to move to Google Analytics 4 by July 1st, but some people are looking for alternatives instead. Here is a list of 11 free site analytics alternatives.

Gravatar has two new updates.  One is that you can now use it for an online profile with links to your social accounts, which totally makes sense.  The second is that it now has new payment features. That doesn’t, by default, seem like part of a global avatar service. 

Not WordPress, but might be useful – Today I learned that the Google team created a free remote desktop app, called Chrome Remote Desktop. I don’t think it is as robust or full-fledged as Microsoft RDP, but I was able to connect to my Windows 10 Home computer from my Mac to do some basic tasks.

The host computer (the one being connected to) has to download and install a program and then when you go to the URL (below) and click to share your computer an access code shows. On the other computer you enter the access code and you are connected to the host.

https://remotedesktop.google.com/support/

The Cwicly Spotlight #3 was a mind bomb – Louis-Alexander Désiré outlined two related mega features that are coming soon. The first is the introduction of Components which is like reusable blocks on steroids. The second is the introduction of Tailwind. The way they are implementing Tailwind there won’t be a slowdown in the editor and only classes you add will be included in the Tailwind style sheet. You will be able to use Tailwind components.

You will be able to turn Tailwind on or off, for those who don’t want to use it or prefer a different framework, but the Cwicly library will use Tailwind, which will allow them to provide pre-designed content that is consistently styled.

The were hints how this will play into a future Cwicly theme builder. A very exciting time ahead for Cwicly users.

In the philosophical reflections department – In this podcast Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley discuss the GPL and the pros and cons of GPL clubs. There is no groundbreaking insight, but it is a nice discussion of the issues.

Here is a nice list of WordPress plugins from Jeff Starr that are useful when developing or debugging. I’m happy to see BugFu at the top of the list as I’ve found it easy and useful.