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📖 Read pages 57-103 of Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3rd Edition by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern

📖 Read pages 57-103 of Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3rd Edition by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern

The review of core had some resources I’m sure I knew about and have even used before, but somehow forgotten from long disuse. The quick review of the loop was useful to have again particularly as I delve into some themeing work these past few weeks.

The examples they provide are pretty solid from a pedagogic standpoint.

Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3rd Edition by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern

🎧 This Week in Google #400: Toot, Not Tweet

Listened to This Week in Google #400: Toot, Not Tweet from twit.tv
Burger King's new ad sets off Google Home on purpose. Mastodon is great, but it's not a Twitter killer. Facebook's $14 million investment in reputable news. How to keep from being dragged off a plane. Whatever happened to Google Books' plan to digitize all books?

Kevin Marks guests on the show and discusses Indieweb, Mastodon, and GNU Social beginning at about 1:18:00 into the show.

Photo of all the Dr. Pepper knockoffs

Read Photo of all the Dr. Pepper knockoffs (Boing Boing)
Spotted doing the viral rounds and unattributed (though watermarked with a URL that redirects to Elbe Spurling's website) this wall of Dr. Pepper knockoffs is a magnificent lesson in branding magic and semiotics and all that fancy jazz.
Continue reading Photo of all the Dr. Pepper knockoffs

Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper | The Verge

Read Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper by Jacob Kastrenakes (The Verge)
Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought-out ad today that’s designed to intentionally set off Google Homes and Android phones.
Continue reading Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper | The Verge

Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review | The Guardian

Read Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review by Jay Rayner (The Guardian)
It was supposed to be a joyous trip to one of France’s famous gastro palaces – what could possibly go wrong?
You’d almost think this reviewer was going out of his way to be as delightfully brutal as he possibly could be…

Continue reading Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review | The Guardian