Carrie Dils

I hate them with almost as much passion as I hate carousels, but some clients insist.

My goal is to at least make them more accessible by switching to a fallback image if system/browser setting is set to "user prefers reduced motion".

Large play button overlaid on a background image.

Not-so-fun fact: Safari blocks autoplay on muted background videos (hi, Low Power Mode 👋) and slaps on a giant play button you can’t remove with CSS or JS. Bonus: the button doesn’t even work.

WebKit lives in its own reality.

RIP 💔

Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit.

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WordPress Developer Conference – 25 September 2025 – London, UK The premier conference for developers who choose WordPress.

🌟 We’re excited to announce the first wave of LoopConf London speakers:

– Ivelina Dimova (Awesome Motive)
– Rashmi Nagpal (Patchstack)
– Ross Wintle (WP Engine)
– Ryan McCue (Human Made / Altis)

Get to know them → loopconf.com
More speakers coming soon!
#LoopConf

In case you're not familiar with the #WeDoNotCareClub or haven't seen Melani's post that inspired this episode, here it is!

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Nice

I’m impressed you’re doing the work yourself!

a man in a suit and tie is holding a piece of paper and says survey says Alt: The male host of Family Fued is wearing a suit and tie, holding a piece of paper, and dancing. Overlaid text reads “survey says”

Survey says: Yes

Are they competing with restaurant sites for worst usability ever?

Keep up the writing and sharing, brother! I love the insights!

$8.8T is the conservative value of open source—and most of it’s held up by overworked volunteers.

Just dropped a post on what I saw at #OpenSourceSummit: FAIR, OSPOs, Gen Z, governance, and more.

Feat. @marucchi.com & @joost.blog
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#opensource #wordpress

I've used Clarity in the past. There's a lot of things I don't love about it, but it's a working solution that doesn't take any setup.

A guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007.

Now that my blog post got the thumbs up from @zeldman.bsky.social, I can die a happy evangelist 🥰

Check out my intro to scroll-driven animations, hope you like it too ❤️ webkit.org/blog/17101/a...

Learn more about @fair.pm and how it creates a sustainable future for #WordPress in our interview with @michellefrechette.bsky.social!

Just gotten off stage presenting about @fair.pm at the Linux Foundation’s #OSSummit together with @marucchi.com - we’re starting the conversations with funders of our project today.

Backstage at #OSSummit with Joost and Jim Zemlin

Today at #OSSummit @joost.blog and I with @fair.pm announced our open call to @linuxfoundation.org members to join a new directed fund to ensure a true #OpenSource #CMS ecosystem for generations to come! Get in touch to Join!

The FAIR Package Manager for WordPress - The WP Minute In this episode of The WP Minute+, I sit down with Carrie Dils and Karim Marucchi to talk through FAIR—short for Federated and Independent Repositories—a new package management project launched under ...

Thank you @thewpminute.com for inviting @marucchi.com and me to talk about #FAIRPM and how we envision a future for #WordPress.

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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On Juneteenth, and in this era of rising vaccine disinformation,
it is useful to contemplate that three centuries ago, the knowledge of an African slave introduced the concept of immunization to America, launching the first successful public inoculation campaign 

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#Juneteenth #Vaccines

Great read by @rogerbikes.com:

People First, Profits Second: What I’ve Learned About Relationships and Sales

(Shout out to @poststatus.com for surfacing the article!)

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Thanks for the shout out!

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Well that is shocking.

My partner and I were just discussing how we might self-triage a bullet wound. I assumed an “in there” bullet should be removed to promote healing.

Open Source: Deceptive Power or Collective Governance? | Open Source Pledge Collective governance prevents abuses of power — but it needs distributed funding in order to survive.

Here's my talk on why collective governance can prevent abusive power, and why distributed funding is necessary for collective governance. Thanks to @altctrl.org for inviting me, and to @fairpm.bsky.social for putting these ideas into practice. ❤️

Something Has to Change with WordPress. FAIR is a Great Start. Last week in Basel, Switzerland—at the Alt Ctrl Org conference held alongside WordCamp Europe—I stood on stage with my colleagues to introduce the FAIR Package Manager for WordPress. This wasn’t just ...

What is FAIR and why am I involved? I wrote about it here:
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#FAIRPM #WordPress

We Should Free All WordPress Plugins and Themes - Half-Elf on Tech What if we democratized everything in WordPress, and not just publishing? What if we freed all themes and plugins? How far could we fly?

Thoughts on #WordPress Plugins, #FAIRPM, and risk.

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If you couldn’t join us at @altctrl.org in Basel last week, here’s a replay of the #FAIRPM announcement.

This is the next chapter for #WordPress!

Thank you @mikelittle.com! The Fair TSC team is doing amazing work and now that we are talking to hosts, there is so much we can do for the evolution of #WordPress

Roger Williams on stage with a microphone. He’s wearing an orange shirt and orange shoes with multi-colored lights in the soles. There’s a large screen showing a presentation behind him.

. @rogerbikes.com rocking the stage at #WCEU and talking about auto-update rollbacks introduced with WordPress 6.6

Check out ‘dem lit shoes!