Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.
One of my proudest professional achievements was selecting and wrangling speakers for three years of WordCamp Edinburgh. Over the past week, videos of 2017’s talks and most of 2018’s talks have been posted at wordpress.tv.
Read moreCastles and unicorns: my legacy to the WordPress community
Better late than never – I blame the Scottish winter darkness – I would like to share what I will be working on this year, who I will be working with, and what I would like to focus on.
Yesterday I had the absolute privilege of joining Dries Buytaert (Drupal), DB Hurley (Joomla! and Mautic), Barb Palser (Google), and Tim Lehnen (Drupal Association) for a panel discussion on the future of the open web and open source at Drupal Europe in Darmstadt, Germany.
Read moreTalking about the future of the open web and open source
A couple of months ago my life fell apart in a morning. Being self-employed, I had two figures in the bank, which wasn’t enough to be able to afford a …
Read moreOn speaker travel expenses, or, why enough is enough
Before I sink my teeth into the smorgasbord of my 2018 workload, I wanted to share my predictions for the major issues that digital professionals will face this year, with the goal of getting you to think about how you will respond to them.
This week we learned that Theresa May will order banks and building societies to check 70 million current accounts per quarter to weed out 6,000 illegal immigrants per year. As …
Read moreOn Theresa May’s planned surveillance of every bank account in Britain
And that’s how I got here. https://heropress.com/essays/going-back-roots/