I first published a few weeks ago on What the FLoC? and since then, major projects have pushed back against the CASH scheme. From TechRadar, GitHub is blocking FLoC: “In addition to disabling FLoC in GitHub Pages, GitHub’s main website also now uses this new HTTP header according to BleepingComputer. This means that the company […]
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The Benefactor Dilemma
In every open source project, at some point, the Benefactor Dilemma will occur. This dilemma can take shape in two forms. Either an open source project has a benefactor, or it doesn’t. First, I think it is important to recognize the lifecycle of an open source project. The largest open source project (by utilization) is […]
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Joost Talks CMS Market Share
Joost De Valk – his blog is pronounced Just De Talk (oh my goodness I’m kidding! but it would be fun, sorry Joost) – released CMS market share: November 2020 analysis: “This is my fourth biannual analysis of the CMS market share numbers provided by W3Techs. A lot has changed this year, in large part […]
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Morning Coffee: A Birthday for a Demo
Aren’t there a lot of demos? Actually only one, yeah, just one – for those in the Joomla and WordPress open source communities, we know him as Demo – for the rest of you, Mike Demopoulos. Mike’s celebrating some birthday of some significance to him (don’t ask him about his age, he can be shy […]
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Morning Coffee: Updates to Posts
Looks like today will be a number of tweaks and updates to posts from the last week. First Inpsyde CIO, Robert Windisch (DE), drops in with a quick thought in JAMmed Up: “WordPress targets in its philosophy to ‘Design for the Majority’ Jamstack will never be for majority of users.” Second yesterday’s cPanel Pricing Redux […]
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Morning Coffee for Open Source: Past is Present
The history of open source and the web are so entwined that it’s hard to remember when open source wasn’t all about the tools that are intricate parts of our lives. I’m not going to go the far back but do have reflections on what’s old is new, and a story from last year. Smells […]
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Two is the Loneliest Number
Most people when asked about the largest open source CMS projects are quick to say WordPress and Drupal, however Joomla has consistently been number two in the specific niche. It’s much more popular outside of …
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Welcome to the Board!
The Joomla board has a ton of new blood, and I am personally very much looking forward to what these folks will bring to the project. While reversing the trends of the last few years will be difficult, the fact that there is new engaged leadership is a net positive. Special shoutouts to Justine Ayebale […]
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Hello World, 15 Times
This week Joomla celebrated 15 years of being one of the largest and most important open source projects …
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Morning Coffee for Open Source: Hello World
Even though the usual conference season for the rest of 2020 is well, not. There are some highlights coming up and actually the lack of an almost weekly event is a bit of relief given the Zoom fatigue that has permeated especially the tech industry.