BobWP
@BobWP
Often I think of great ideas during my breakfast. What do I do? I finish breakfast.
I get asked a lot what my tech stack looks like. Well.....bobwp.com/my-tech-stack/
I was one of the 16 devs in this study. I wanted to speak on my opinions about the causes and mitigation strategies for dev slowdown. I'll say as a "why listen to you?" hook that I experienced a -38% AI-speedup on my assigned issues. I think transparency helps the community.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
What Investors Really Want: Funding Insights for Digital and Open Source Founders openchannels.fm/what-investors…
Are WordPress plugins still a viable business in a crowded market? Tune in with host @westguard and guest @PoeHaH to hear their thoughts and experiences. openchannels.fm/managing-team-…
Read this. @remkusdevries is 💯 on this.
Turned this comment into a blog post, btw: remkusdevries.com/the-fine-line-… cc @ImranWebsites
Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/res…
My memory of OZZY. 1970’s Black Sabbath concert and watching him run back and forth across the stage, nonstop for at least 30 minutes, sans vocals, during the song Paranoid.
"If you’ve ever gone through a rebrand, I think you know the deal. You head in with some goals, a vision, maybe a roadmap. But once you hit that post rebrand stage, things start shifting, new ideas pop up, priorities evolve, and you start seeing what really fits and what…
Massive, and growing, size of US podcasting revealed podnews.net/article/time-s…
Five years after @gruber and @benthompson inspired us with @ditheringfm, @lukecarbis and I had the pleasure of welcoming John as a guest on Crossword to share his perspective. Check it out in the podcast player of your choice: crossword.fm/s09/e13/
Join me and some others from Woo to talk all about our rebrand, our current/upcoming marketing efforts, and where we're headed as an ecosystem. Next Wednesday on Zoom and there'll be time for Q&A.
Join us for our July live event, focused on the future marketing direction of WooCommerce. buff.ly/z8SUvhA
When we moved to Porto, I unloaded a lot of swag and Woo goodies. But this one did make it into my bag. 😉 @WooCommerce
I ❤️ it!
It's always fun choosing which photos to use when creating screenshots of our WooCommerce Product Options live preview feature - now I'm tempted to get an actual backpack like this printed 😂
Several people in my X timeline are working on media players or podcast blocks 😁 but could I also get a code review of the playlist block, please? github.com/WordPress/gute… And yes, it's intentionally basic to keep the scope of the initial PR down.
I have been lucky to see a bit of this previously to beta and gotta say as a podcaster, this is so cool. Congrats @wpbuilds and @danmaby
I mentioned the other day that I'm about to launch a #podcasting / #podcast plugin for #WordPress. If you're interested in beta testing that, and finding out more, there's more here: podcasterplus.com/beta/
PSA: The call for speakers for @WCLithuania is open for just a few more days! If you have a workshop to teach or a session to present, please don't hesitate to submit at lithuania.wordcamp.org/2025/call-for-…! #WordCamp #SpeakersWanted #Lithuania #Kaunas
This post is so spot-on
Marketing isn’t media buying. It isn’t CPA dashboards and ROAS targets. That’s advertising. Marketing is brand, product, story, strategy. When we conflate the two, we forget how to build anything that lasts. I wrote about it here 👉 jonoalderson.com/misc/performan…
Emojis, Exclamation Marks, and Reading the Room in Text bobwp.com/2025/07/03/emo…
