What happened last week - issue #73
This week: Statamic, WordPress, Open Source and more
What happened last week
Last week I mentioned that I will be an MC at OSDay Florence - I’m happy to post a small update - I will also be a speaker there. I will talk about Headless CMSs. If you want to meet me there, you can get your free tickets here.
I also picked up all the coffees for the Code and Coffee Show guests. As you can see - there’s quite a lot of them.
Also, I’m proud of myself about how I’m working on my New Year's resolutions. My weight is going down, I’m still consistent about hitting the gym, and I’m submitting CFP with some rate of success. I just have to start reading those books that I promised myself.
And that’s it - quite a lot of things happened at work that kept me busy. I hope that I will find some time soon because I have some great article ideas.
Interesting links
🛑 Stop Burning Out Maintainers: An Empathetic Guide for Contributors — Bekah Hawrot Weigel
Being an Open Source maintainer can be difficult. On one hand, you get new feature requests and bug reports and on the other very often you’re on your own. Bekah summarized many of those problems and wrote checklists on what to do, to make sure your contribution won’t be just a waste of time.
🎨 Creating rich, interactive content with Nuemark
I remember, that some time ago I wrote about Neu.js. Since then I kind of forgot about it. But when I saw Nuemark it got interesting again. Nuemark is somewhere between WordPress shortcodes, Markdown, and TOML. It’s like Markdown but for websites, not just content.
🏷️ How to use Blink to improve complex tag performance in Statamic — Marty Friedel
Marty does an amazing job explaining how to use Blink to improve performance. Worth reading if you feel that some of your tags are doing a similar operation over and over.
🐳 Building Showcase Docker images for your Shopware plugins — Christian Dangl
Christian shows how to create Docker images that will make it easier to test and evaluate plugins without having to set up everything from scratch.
🏆 How to Get a Perfect Lighthouse Score on Your Statamic Site — Lokman Musliu
Great bunch of tips, on how to improve the Lighthouse score in Statamic. I love the video tag and how to solve lazy loading in Alpine.
🆕 What’s new for developers in WordPress? (February 2024) — Justin Tadlock
A lot of changes for developers are coming in WordPress 6.5. Block Bindings API, Plugin dependencies, Font Library, Interactivity API, and more.
🤯 Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault — Juan Diego Rodríguez
I agree with Juan here. I feel that we are going in circles to constantly solve problems we are creating. Stacks are growing, and creating a simple landing page is also getting more and more complicated. Luckily, more and more developers are seeing this madness.
🎮 Win the blog game with Headless Hashnode! — Jason Torres
Jason does a nice job explaining the basics of using Headless Hashnode.
And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.
Cheers,
Maciek