David G. Johnson

Looking forward to processing everything we took away from #WCEU with Kyleigh from @itsliquidweb.bsky.social! It was great having her with us in the @stellarwp.bsky.social booth!

Mary Hubbard & Matt Mullenweg on stage for the fireside chat at WordCamp Europe 2025

The anticipation and curiosity in this room is PALPABLE.

#WCEU

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Glad to see @stellarwp.bsky.social and @itsliquidweb.bsky.social becoming active here!

This was so disorienting 😵‍💫

It was if Chris Cornell had been teleported to the 40s and we were going to the mattresses

open.spotify.com/track/7c9UV6...

Have you ever noticed that the price paid for the sunglasses is inversely correlated with the length of ownership?

or is that just me?

A small Burmese cat snoozing in a sunny windowsill

What a life.

YouTube video by Post Status Women in WordPress: Taylor Waldon

Hey look! It's @telizarose.bsky.social on "Women in WordPress" from @poststatus.com with the one and only @michellefrechette.bsky.social 🤩😁

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_os...

EU OS Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

EU OS is a project worth keeping an eye on.

The future of secure platforms is inevitably going to be open source software, whether it's your desktop OS, your browser, your website's CMS, etc. And not JUST for the public sector.

eu-os.gitlab.io

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

“The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. In the late ‘90s, Brian Johnson and Brian Morden were suburban teenagers obsessed with video games and music. And then, through an extraordinary wish, the two friends found themselves on a journey tha...

Not me weeping in my kitchen listening to the latest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz 😭😭😭

www.20k.org/episodes/the...

@20k.bsky.social

I'm not going to ask how the f..k this got out, but I, for one, would not like to FA with the hacker trans community.

Authority: friend of dozens of elite trans #infosec allies.

Bearded guy sitting at a counter with a journal, a pen, a half-eaten empanada, and a cup of coffee. The view from the barstool through a picture window shows a tropical street scene on a very sunny day

"Mornings are for coffee and contemplation," Saturday at Siesta Key Village Edition

Why, alas, do I not notice the autocorrect until I start getting notifications about interactions?

Tabby cat looking earnestly into the camera

"Hey. You're gonna say that device down and pay attention to me, right?"

I was always curious about how to make a Molotov cocktail. Who knew that the knowledge would come to me via my favorite cybersecurity podcast?!🤣

First: a portable dog killer
Now: Molotov cocktails

What is Steve Gibson really trying to train us to do?

/s

Hi @leolaporte.me

How should we "label" machine-generated speech?

This reminds me of the requirement that electric cars make sounds or even Harley-Davidson's efforts to add sound to electric motorcycles.

Seems like a good episode idea for @20k.bsky.social

www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Screenshot from a Slack post which contains a screenshot of the Github profile of TheDavidJohnson sporting a short-trimmed mustache and goatee instead of the long beard he's worn for more than 5 years

That moment when colleagues who have only known you since you grew "the beard" notice the pre-beard pic still lingering on your Github profile 😳

Why the majority of people in the #WordPress community do not want it to fork: A thread (x-posted). 🧵

(In which I generalize considerably for ease of language and unverified character limits.)

(begin)

Mtobey: “Anybody here named Jeff?” Jeff: “Yes” Geoff: “Yeos”

AI- generated profiles were inevitable. As were AI-generated "influencers."

The question is, why is Meta compelled to create their own?

Shout out to all the neurodivergents, heading into a week of over stimulation, no routine, sky high expectations, and non optional socialising.

I see you.

Two cats curled up for a nap on top of a closed laptop running in clamshell mode next to a keyboard and various desk accessories

These 2 Florida residents will track down any heat source this time of year 🤣

I feel like he's referring to the Israelite as opposed to Father Christmas.

But that line about the Christmas we get? Ouch.

I've loved this song for years, too!

I've always heard it was Groucho Marx that said "I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member"

And yet:
* This is a phenomenal group of people
* Only one of them actually consented to my inclusion 🤣

Thanks for building such a great list of WordPress people, @shawnhooper.ca!

Maybe there's a compromise: I stick with Product, AND I get the outfit!

Even I did a double take. And I know I don't have that costume 😂

Is THAT my calling?! 🤣🤔

Hi @chriswiegman.me