#197 – Johanne Courtright on Enhancing Gutenberg: Agency-Driven Block Editor Innovations
Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, enhancing Gutenberg with agency driven block editor innovations. If you’d like to subscribe […]
Matt: Dries OSS
A more accurate framing would be that Fizzy is source available. You can read it, run it, and modify it. But DHH’s company is keeping the SaaS rights because they want to be able to build a sustainable business. That is defensible and generous, but it is not open source. Dries Buytaert follows up on my response to […]
Open Channels FM: Growth, Hackathons, and Gratitude Lessons from an Eventful 2025
Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander recap their 2025 experiences, highlighting personal growth, industry events, business developments, and health journeys. They emphasize gratitude and reflect on goals for a promising 2026.
Introducing Sugar Calendar Bookings – The Easiest Way to Accept Appointments in WordPress
Tired of losing clients because your booking system is clunky, costly, or confusing? Often, it’s because the booking form felt overwhelming, or your scheduling tool sent customers off-site to finish the booking — breaking the flow and costing you conversions. Now imagine an appointment booking plugin that handles everything right within WordPress. That means you […]
Matt: DHH & Open Source
I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative qualities are being distracted from by its co-creator David Heinmeier Hansson’s insistence on calling it open source. “One more thing… Fizzy is open source […]
Can You Delete a Google Review? Here’s What You Can Do Instead
Negative Google reviews can be stressful, especially when they’re fake, unfair, or harming your business’s reputation. These reviews don’t just influence customer trust. They can also impact where your business appears in the Google search results. The truth is that you usually can’t delete reviews left by others. But there are ways to deal with […]
Matt: Happy Birthday Kinsey
Yesterday I had the great honor and privilege of attending a colleague’s 70th birthday party. You may not have heard his name before, but Kinsey Wilson has been at the center of shaping journalism with a movie-worthy career that started at the bottom as a crime reporter in Chicago, and has taken him to the […]
Matt: Self-driving
There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies. It’s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order […]
Matt: AI Native
James LePage has a great write-up, SOTW 2025:The Year WordPress Became AI-Native.
Gutenberg Times: State of the Word, WordPress 6.9 “Gene”, Playground Year-Review — Weekend Edition #352
Hi there, How did the upgrade to WordPress 6.9 go for you and those around you? Did anything break? Or are you waiting for 6.9.1 to come out? Once in a while I get a question on how I keep up with the fast progress and the vast range of updates in Gutenberg and WordPress […]