Emily Rapport

How to grow strawberries Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...

Some of you are dreading Monday. Some of you are spending your Sunday working to be “ready” for Monday. Some of you are facing your first Monday without work. Some of you are gearing up for another week of hoping the phone rings. You’ll all get something out of this: buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Today on WFMU: On Observations of Deviance w/David Mittleman (Give the Drummer Radio stream): The show will begin with cover versions of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War," followed by three hours of rare live performances of this classic track by Sun Ra and his Arkestra (7 p.m. ET).

I got sidetracked into redesigning my website during a weekend lull (more fool I). That was about 3 weekends ago now…

This Week in WordPress #365

This episode with Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Marc Benzakein, Rhys Wynne explores the renewed importance of blogging and owning your content in 2026, discusses WordPress's educational initiatives and their overlapping complexities,
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Understanding WordPress Section Styles - Always Open Design WordPress Section Styles are an extension of block style variations. Create flexible, user-friendly, consistent designs with Section Styles.

This week, I dive into Section Styles in WordPress themes - a flexible way to present different types of content and maintain design consistency. A very handy tool for your #WordPress theming tool-kit. alwaysopen.design/understandin...

Join the WP Minute Membership - The WP Minute A Place for WordPress Professionals The WP Minute helps a broad audience of WordPress freelancers, agency owners, product makers, and stakeholders throughout the WordPress economy. There's a spot for ...

My #WordPress peeps, are you looking for something to do on a quiet Sunday? You can join me over at @thewpminute.com for free! You'll gain access to our Slack channel and our free courses (a new one is dropping soon 👀). thewpminute.com/membership/

WordPress Block Styles and Variations - Always Open Design Block style variations are a big improvement, allowing site editors to choose and apply options visually from the block editor's style panel.

Many #WordPress side-quests while trying to document my classic theme to block theme migration, the latest explores Block Variations and Block Styles - similar, but different: alwaysopen.design/block-style-...

Thanks Derek!

Made the feed… thanks to @wordpress.org and @heropress.bsky.social for supporting all of the different pathways to community and professional development.

Thank you!

Walking to the store much easier today (went Sunday while it was still snowing), sidewalks cleared - it looks like 2 feet of snow all around. Jamestown, NY - lots of snow!

Block Theme Development, Part 2: Page Templates and Custom Styles - Always Open Design Focusing on building out page templates, enabling custom functionality, and making custom style adjustments in block themes.

Part 2 from my block theme development exercise - migrating an existing website to a new design is always a challenge, but I did learn a few things about how block spacing actually works in #WordPress - alwaysopen.design/block-theme-...

This was fun!

How Art School Led Me To Web Design Emily Rapport from Jamestown, NY writes about how her desire to share her art led her into a career as a WordPress developer.

@topher1kenobe.bsky.social kindly invited me to contribute my #WordPress story to HeroPress, a site dedicated to sharing the stories of and connecting people in WordPress. Check it out: heropress.com/essays/how-a...

Today on WFMU: On Observations of Deviance w/David Mittleman (Give the Drummer Radio stream), Öppet Archives: Swedish Free Jazz Round Table. Öppet is a historically important series of albums focused on Swedish creative improvised music of the 1960s and 1970s (7 p.m. ET).

Split image: movie poster for "Morocco" with illustrated images of stars Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich on the left; on the right, a black-and-white film scene with Dietrich wearing a tuxedo seated on a rail before an audience.

Before the Hays Code slammed the door, Hollywood told bolder stories. Morocco (1930), now in the public domain, preserves a fleeting vision of a Hollywood before the hammer of the censor fell.

Learn why pre-Code films still matter ⤵️
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Alt Text: a lush forest scene, two large fallen trees and two standing trees form a grid in a slightly fantastical, organic landscape with heightened palette

Complete! “Forest,” oil/canvas, 36x44” - maybe this title will change - from a scene earlier this Fall that I photographed at the Audubon Community Nature Center. #OilPainting #LandscapePainting #JamestownNY

Trust me: You don't want to make little personal apps... especially not like that! - Ross Wintle Like "slop" text, images and videos, the ability to create apps and websites is fascinating. But I don't believe it's ultimately good for the creators or for the users.

“Like ‘slop’ text, images & videos, the ability to create small, personal apps and websites with LLMs is fascinating. But I don't believe it's ultimately good for the creators or for the users.”

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I've been writing this all weekend. Longer than I thought it would be.

Writing content for humans with AI - Always Open Design Writing with AI promises to save time and make tasks easier but humans still need to provide good input, apply critical judgment, and edit ruthlessly.

I’m not supposed to work on the weekends but this isn’t client work so it’s okay (bargaining). Read about how your humanity is required when writing with AI: alwaysopen.design/ai-writing-f...

Public Domain Film Remix Screening Party January 21 @ 7pm PT

JUST ADDED: Can't make it to the Internet Archive for our Public Domain Film Remix Contest screening party? Join the LIVESTREAM to watch the winning films and honorable mentions!

LIVE from the Internet Archive
January 21 @ 7pm PT
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/1980757251...

Block Theme Development Series - Classic to Block - Always Open Design Follow a real WordPress block theme development project. We start with choosing to build from scratch or using a theme, and setting up the structure.

Started a short series on migrating a real life website with a custom classic #WordPress theme to a block theme, first installment: alwaysopen.design/block-theme-...

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Saturated landscape painting, fallen green in an autumnal forest

Painting tree limbs like figures. I may need a better ventilation system (it’s cold with the window open) … still in progress. A scene from the Audubon Community Nature Center this past fall. #OilPainting #LandscapePainting #JamestownNY

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Established in 1993 and open every day since then, if you’re in Chicago this is a landmark. Great music, free pool, festooned in art. I don’t drink anymore but it’s still a great spot.

Catalog cover shows two young women in conversation in a pink bar

Shameless self-promotion: I’ve reissued my “Paintings Delilah’s” catalog, collected works from 2004 - 2017. Portraits of night life, clientele, and most importantly the folks behind the bar! #DelilahsChicago #Punks #OilPainting
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A winter wonderland!

Good read:

A forest, two fallen trees surrounded by plants and ferns, sun filters through turning leaves a glowing green-gold in the distance - work in progress

A little more progress on this forest scene (oil/canvas, 36x44”) - #wip