"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.

Ever wondered what makes a great Symfony bundle? This new SymfonyCasts course takes you from an empty directory to a production-ready bundle that feels right at home in the Symfony ecosystem.

Email may be old, but it remains critical when reliability matters — and TYPO3 still lacks awareness of modern deliverability standards. This article outlines a first approach to central, validated sender configuration in TYPO3, making email setup safer and simpler for editors.

The PeerTube mobile app continues to grow and now includes a creator mode ! Let’s take this opportunity to review the latest developments and the improvements we will be making in the future. Publish your videos wherever you are This was … Lire la suite­­

One of the most important parameters of a site is speed, and WordPress sites are not an exception....

Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?

It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline.

The WordPress Interactivity API, introduced in WordPress 6.5, represents a fundamental shift in how we build interactive blocks. While most tutorials focus on basic toggle examples, this guide explores practical, real-world applications that demonstrate the API's true power for creating dynamic, server-rendered blocks that feel native to WordPress.

Viewing source code, using developer tools, and inspecting elements to learn how websites are built.

Three months after the 7.3 release, PeerTube, a decentralized video hosting platform developed as a free and open-source alternative to centralized services, rolled out version 8.0. The new Lucide player theme introduces a cleaner, more modern look, replacing bold icons with lighter, unobtrusive elements that highlight the video itself. On top of that, peer-to-peer details now sit inside the “Stats for nerds” menu, and the volume controls have been simplified. For those who prefer the classic interface, the old player theme remains available at the platform, channel, or video level. The new PeerTube’s Lucide player theme. Alongside the visual overhaul, PeerTube 8 finally introduces shared channel management. Platform members can now be assigned as editors, enabling them to upload, modify, or delete videos and playlists, manage synchronizations, update channel information, and oversee comments. Editors cannot add or remove other editors or delete the channel, but the new role meets a longstanding need for organizations that rely on team-based publishing workflows. Moreover, failed imports can now be retried manually, and channel synchronizations automatically attempt reruns at the next verification interval. Status information for each import is now clearly displayed in the video management page, giving administrators better visibility into ongoing operations. Recent releases also added a configuration wizard for administrators, a redesigned “About” page, improved batch management tools, a new moderation feature for tracking specific words, and a complete overhaul of sensitive content handling. The team’s future plans include delivering promised features for the mobile app—background playback, live streaming, and TV apps—starting in early 2026. A “video maker” mode is expected to arrive within days. For more information, see the announcement. _Image credits: PeerTube_

You hover over an icon to see what it does, and a helpful tooltip appears. But before you finish reading it, you accidentally move your mouse slightly and the tooltip vanishes. Or you're using a screen magnifier and the tooltip appears, but it's positioned right under your mouse pointer, making it impossible to read the magnified version. Or you're navigating with a keyboard, the tooltip appears when you tab to a button, but you can't move your mouse over the tooltip text to select and copy it.

In 2024 I became a certified coach to round out the informal coaching that I’ve been providing for many years. I’ve used that training to support a variety of people in several different volunteer communities, including folks who attended our Leadership Training for Open Source course last year. In an effort to support the Drupal community more broadly I’m offering some free sessions for Drupalers.

What if building pages in Drupal felt as effortless as sketching ideas on a digital canvas — yet powerful enough to satisfy a developer’s need for precision and control? That’s the promise of Drupal Canvas: a new visual builder that merges the best of what Drupal has offered so far with today’s most modern approaches and best practices.

I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted.

A clear overview of how to host Ghost: self-hosting, managed hosting, key features to compare, and how to switch between providers.

Bisher konnte man im ActivityPub-Plugin für WordPress immer einstellen, wie die Posts bspw. bei Mastodon angezeigt werden. Dieses Features ist jetzt abgekündigt und der Plugin-Entwickler Matthias Pfefferle (<a rel="mention" class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle">@pfefferle</a>) hat mir in seiner öffentlichen Sprechstunde am Freitag erklärt, wieso das so ist.

Wäre es nicht super, wenn man sich mit seinem Mastodon-Account einfach für eine Veranstaltung anmelden könnte - so wie das früher bei Facebook möglich war? Derzeit geht das noch nicht. Aber es gibt ein paar hoffnungsvolle Anzeigen, dass sich das ändern könnte.

The crucial decision is between the policy that defends the common interest and deliberately favors the emergence of new digital institutionalities on the network, and the blind policy that, through inaction, allows the evolution of the digital environment to occur randomly, at the whim of the interests of large foreign technology companies.

Why am I making an RSS reader? I don't know. There are a thousand RSS readers out there already, and they all read RSS feeds, but none of them work the way I'd like them to. So I'm making my own. It's obviously a terrible idea. So why do it? Mostly for fun. There are all sorts of interesting things being published on the web every day, but they're kind of all over the place. I enjoy sitting down on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and an hour to myself, but I don't enjoy opening my email inbox to read a newsletter, only to get sidetracked by 5 new emails that I should probably respond to. I don't enjoy wrestling my RSS app, which hasn't been updated in about 10 years and has a horrible reading experience. Reading links from Twitter gets me lost down an algorithm hole. YouTube doesn't even show me new videos from people I'm subscribed to. I wish it were just all in one place. Without all the noise and engagement farming. Just a quiet little spot where I could catch up with things I care about. That's what I'm making. I'm calling it Alcove. If you want to follow along with this questionable side project of undefined scope, I'm sharing live updates of progress on Twitter, here. There's a more than half-decent chance of a disastrous outcome.