WordPress powers about 41% of the internet. It took Matt Mullenweg twenty years to build that. It took him about ninety days in 2024 to lose the trust of the community he built it with — the agencies, plugin developers, hosts, and translators who bet their businesses on the update button still working next Friday. This is the full timeline: how a blog fork in 2003 became a movement, how Automattic became a company, how WP Engine became the target, and how one keynote at WordCamp US turned into cease and desists, lawsuits, forked plugins, mass resignations, and a preliminary injunction. And it’s the story of a pattern that keeps repeating in open source — from Redis to Terraform to Elasticsearch — where the same loop plays out with a different logo every time.
The Camera Industry is Collapsing | What You Need to Know
The camera market is shifting as AI technology begins to impact sub-$1,500 models. Learn what this means for your next gear upgrade.
We analyze how the production industry is adapting to new automation capabilities. This discussion focuses on the practical implications for photographers who rely on affordable, high-quality tools, and we examine two specific mirrorless cameras currently in development that illustrate these trends. By understanding these shifts, you can better anticipate how hardware manufacturers will integrate smarter features moving forward.
Additionally, we look at the potential influence of Apple Reference Image technology on color science and workflow consistency. Watching this breakdown will help you determine if current equipment limitations are temporary or if a larger shift in photographic standards is underway.
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Tesla’s Founders Are Backing The Anti-Cybertruck
Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard dreamed up Tesla and convinced Elon Musk to fund it. Two decades later they’re backing an antidote to the company it’s become: a maker of pint-sized electric trucks.
The (Overdue) Collapse of Bullsh*t Software
This video explores why modern enterprise software has become notoriously sluggish and frustrating despite massive hardware advancements. Historically, companies competed on product quality, but eventually shifted strategies to prioritize customer lock-in. By embedding their tools deeply into business workflows, giants like Adobe, Oracle, and Microsoft made switching costs prohibitively high, reducing the pressure to innovate.
However, this dominance is finally being challenged. Newer, specialized competitors like Figma, DaVinci Resolve, and Blender are succeeding by focusing on specific, modern workflows rather than feature-bloat. Furthermore, the rise of AI has lowered the barrier to entry, allowing small teams to build powerful, efficient software quickly. The video concludes that the era of stagnant, bloated software is ending, forcing industry leaders to either modernize or face obsolescence as users embrace more flexible, multi-tool ecosystems
The man who learned to fly | Live JET SUIT demonstration
With a rich family history in Aviation, former Oil Trader & Royal Marines Reservist, Richard Browning, founded pioneering Aeronautical Innovation company, Gravity Industries in March 2017 to launch human flight into an entirely new era.
The Gravity JetSuit uses over 1000bhp of Jet Engine power combined with natural human balance to deliver the most intense and enthralling spectacle, often likened to the real life Ironman.
The 12 Principles of Animation Explained — The Most Important Rules for Animating
In this episode of the Shot List, we break down the 12 principles of animation, how they work, and why animators continue to use them to this day.
APPLY THE 12 PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION
Squash and Stretch: Deforming objects or characters to emphasize their weight, elasticity, or flexibility.
Anticipation: Preparing the audience for an upcoming action by showing a brief movement or change in expression.
Staging: Presenting ideas or actions in a clear and visually interesting way, directing the audience’s attention to convey the intended message.
Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose: Two different approaches to animating movement. Straight ahead animates each frame in sequence, while pose to pose plans key poses first.
Follow Through and Overlapping Action: Continuing movement after the main action stops and parts of a character or object moving at different speeds or times.
Slow In and Slow Out: Gradually increasing or decreasing the speed of movement at the beginning and end of an action.
Arcs: Animating objects and characters along curved trajectories, mimicking real-world motion.
Secondary Action: Additional movements that complement the main action, adding depth and context to a character’s performance.
Timing: The speed and rhythm of movements in animation, essential for conveying weight, energy, and emotion effectively.
Exaggeration: Pushing movements and expressions beyond reality to make them more dynamic and expressive.
Solid Drawing: Creating characters and objects with volume, weight, and dimensionality, making animation appear more believable and three-dimensional.
Appeal: Making characters and animation visually interesting and appealing, designing characters with unique personalities and maintaining consistency in design and performance.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once | FT
Smartphones and a marked change to our digital media environment are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world, including how low birth rates are shrinking the workforce. Chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch presents his lastest findings on this challenge faced by most nations.
How a Secretive Trading Empire Is Taking Over Wall Street
High frequency trading has transformed Wall Street into a universe of algorithms. No other firm captures this digital upheaval quite like Jane Street. Barely on the radar a decade ago, the market maker made a record-setting $39 billion in trading revenue last year, outearning the big banks and rivals. Many are wondering what’s behind its unprecedented success.
SpaceX Wants to Blast Data Centers Into Orbit. Here’s What It May Take. | WSJ Pro Perfected
Earlier this year, SpaceX filed an application with the FCC petitioning to launch up to a million satellites as part of an “orbital data center.” It’s also become a big part of Elon Musk’s pitch to investors ahead of his massive SpaceX IPO.
WSJ asked an engineer to break down the biggest technical hurdles and costly barriers to putting data centers in space.
NYSE preps for MASSIVE 24/7 trading tokenization REVOLUTION
Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher discusses the NYSE’s 234th anniversary, discussing its history as the bedrock of American capitalism during ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’