Open Channels FM: 12 Tips for WordPress Businesses Navigating the WordPress Media Landscape

To enhance your business visibility in the WordPress ecosystem, employ strategies like mapping channels, collaborating with influencers, sponsoring newsletters, and tailoring content to different audience needs.​ ​To enhance your business visibility in the WordPress ecosystem, employ strategies like mapping channels, collaborating with influencers, sponsoring newsletters, and tailoring content to different audience needs. 

Open Channels FM: How a Global Cake Brand Was Built Using WooCommerce and Open Source Communities

In this episode, nurse-turned-baker Precious shares her journey of launching “Cakes in a Jar” with WordPress and WooCommerce, blending her Zimbabwean roots with a vibrant online brand.​ ​In this episode, nurse-turned-baker Precious shares her journey of launching “Cakes in a Jar” with WordPress and WooCommerce, blending her Zimbabwean roots with a vibrant online brand. 

Matt: Telex Remixes

Telex has launched a new design and a gallery of some interesting examples. It’s really cool to see what people are starting to do with Telex, it really gets back at the fun of hacking and coding at the beginning, when a computer does something for you that makes you gasp. My colleague Eduardo Villunendas […]

It isn’t your imagination: Google Cloud is flooding the zone

While the industry’s biggest players cement ever-tighter partnerships, Google is hellbent on capturing the next generation of AI companies before they become too big to court.​ ​While the industry’s biggest players cement ever-tighter partnerships, Google is hellbent on capturing the next generation of AI companies before they become too big to court. 

How Al Gore used AI to track 660M polluters

A new tool from Climate Trace allows people to track the path of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which causes as many as 10 million deaths annually.​ ​A new tool from Climate Trace allows people to track the path of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which causes as many as 10 million deaths annually. 

How I Send WooCommerce Order Notifications Straight to WhatsApp

Once, I missed sending a WooCommerce order notification and only found out because my customer reached out, upset. Relying on email alone often doesn’t cut it. Messages can get lost in spam, delayed, or ignored if shoppers don’t check their inboxes. Switching to WhatsApp made a big difference for me. Notifications arrive instantly, customers actually […]

Matt: Ruby Drama

There is some riveting drama in the Ruby community around company sponsorships, and directory nudging similar to what happened with Advanced Custom Fields and Secure Custom Fields. This post does the best summary: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover. I will only add that Automattic attempted to sponsor RailsConf and […]