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The implications of set forced play spaces in work
I was listening to the Post Status podcast this week where Cory Miller and David Bisset discussed creating time for play within work. I […]
Seek the sketching state
Sketching state is where everyone in product creation is collaborating enough and sharing enough that sketches work. All too often, spending lengthy time coming […]
Opening your project for contributions
So you want to open source your project for others to contribute? That’s great, but where do you start? With a few things to […]
Designers grow in open source
When design is mentioned in open source, it’s often as a scarce resource, one yearned for or maybe hasn’t had an easy time. I […]
Technical words matter
Words matter; we put labels on things, we put labels on each other. Those labels lead to judgements. The ways we judge what capability […]
Strike while the fear is low
Today I happened to be taking a tea break and saw a post in Slack by Cory Miller sharing a challenge he’s embarking on […]

The need for standardisation
It’s almost adorable the way we accept in most of our theme processes in WordPress the lack of standardisation. However, it has to stop […]
Let themes be themes
Yesterday I was lucky enough to give a talk at the WordPress Cheltenham Meetup. The topic was something close to my heart, I got […]
Theme resources
I don’t know about you, but I find so many good resources around themes lately that I feel I am constantly juggling links and […]
Controlling styling support states
Being able to control elements of your theme through the theme.json is super powerful; however, you can also turn on and off what is […]
Patience and the art of design tools
I want all the design tools now. There I said it! I want everything today on all the blocks right now. However, I know […]
Keeping up with block supports
One of the trickier things I’ve found in my experiments is finding out what is supported or not in various blocks. I tried to […]