Bart De Ruyck

@SybreWaaijer @HaktanSuren Precisely. There was zero need to change the colours and so 7.0 is a regression. No time or effort should have been invested in that. And the quip about contributions: many valid ideas and proposals are shut down.

@HaktanSuren What? There was a better default. Also, the project isn't open to most contributions and quickly rejects any opinion, even when backed by science. Have you ever tried contributing?

WordPress 7.0 discourse is a good reminder: Open source is not a restaurant. If a color hurts your eyes, say exactly where, propose the better default, or send the patch. Complaining is easy. Stewardship is the part that keeps free software alive.

@KatieKeithBarn2 Totally agree! Since it's the default, it should be toned down a bit. Interface colours need restraint and the old colour was fine.

In some ways I like it, and it reminds me of Iconic's branding (or at least Iconic's branding until last week 😞). However, I personally think it's too bold to impose on all websites, because something that specific will almost certainly conflict with the site's individual branding. I know you can overwrite it and customize the color scheme, but most won't, so the default should be modern but neutral.

Here are before-and-after pictures of the WordPress 7.0 admin redesign. The left nav is a definite improvement, but the overall look and feel still looks dated due to the grey backgrounds in the main column. Hopefully that's the next phase.

@srikat Never understood this app. I just use speech to text with Wispr Flow and call it a day. It's at 99.x % accuracy.

Uproar over Cotypist's pricing. reddit.com/r/macapps/comm…

@nickarceco @EtchWPOfficial Boom, purchased! Awesome work and thanks!

Drawer Component for @EtchWPOfficial is officially ready. Really excited about this component because its easy to build off of. Comes with 5 starter patterns to drop into any project. youtube.com/watch?v=SDaxd2…

@Todd_Spence 100%! The epitome of '80s cool. I rewatch every year. Let's hope Miami Vice '85 will channel some of that energy.

I'll say it: This movie is better than The French Connection.

Actor William Petersen telling the story how he and William Friedkin pulled off the famous escalator run in TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. after being told by the airport liasion they were forbidden to do the stunt 🔥 very cool - watch the clip at the end

@dannyvankooten "Now"? It's been around six years since 5.5. make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/2…

TIL WordPress has native sitemaps now. Good! Meta descriptions when?!

@NextPersona @harpreetchatha_ (1) seranking.com/blog/llms-txt/ (2) searchenginejournal.com/llms-txt-for-a… "Google’s John Mueller confirmed that LLMs.txt is unnecessary."

@harpreetchatha_ Do you have any profound article on llms.txt you can recommend and that comes from a credible/established source.

Webflow blew their budget on implementing GEO / AEO product features that have no proven value. That didn't work. Now they have to increase their pricing 📉

@y_molodtsov @digitalshane_ 10 bucks a month for form file uploads in 2026...

@digitalshane_ I mean, pretty radical for what I'd guess is their median user (and I doubt they need the expanded options)

Webflow's pricing changes really are not that crazy My only complaint is the bandwidth changes

@juneleedesign @webflow The sad truth is they don't want you as a customer. They're pushing you out in favour of enterprise clients. Just move to WordPress where you actually own your stack, control your pricing, and have so much more flexibility. Look at builders like Bricks or Etch.

Who ever is working at @webflow must live in a bubble. Most of the sites I build are for professionals like lawyers, real estate agents, musicians, restaurants, individual healthcare professionals, beauty professionals etc. They don’t have marketing teams. More ranting below....

@levelsio Ze zijn de ultieme tolpoorten. Het is dat of overbodig worden...

Tax and accountancy software and bookkeeping industry have perverse incentives to keep the tax code and bookkeeping hard so you have to keep paying a lot for their software and to hire them If they let AI just do it via their APIs, their value woudl go to $0 fast!

@gaganghotra_ Non-stop. Annoying as hell...

Anyone here also got these emails from Google around 2 hours back! Even for the properties which have been verified for years for my email - Google saying this 🤔🤔 which is weird!! "Google systems confirm that on April 12, 2026 we started collecting Google Search impressions for your website in Search Console." #SEO

@nickarceco That looks so so nice! Great work.

@ATRightMovies This isn't a "smash cut" at all.

In INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Spielberg stages the perfect “handoff”: young Indy puts on the fedora, and the film smash‑cuts to Harrison Ford lifting his head into frame years later.

@nickarceco @endriu_s This. I haven't found an app that formats & structures as neatly.

@endriu_s just tried it. wispr flow beats it. it can output lists for me and it auto puts things in quotes. its faster. it just works. now superwhisper might do that with tweaking but i dont want to spend time tweaking

i can confirm if you are talking to AI with just your keyboard you are missing out. Get a good voice to text software now and speak raw unfiltered ideas to your AI. much better output consistently.

@NotePlanApp 100% deserved, Eduard! Daily driver over here for years, and it keeps getting better. Thanks for all the work you put into it!

App of the day (in Europe) 🎉

@chansspik @mamboitaliano__ It was just about sand. The runway for that collection, Spring 2026, was makeshift dunes with actual sand. ayerhsmagazine.com/2025/01/27/eve…

@mamboitaliano__ I'm a straight guy. In other words, I have no idea if that conversation was about sand or not.

The Italian 🇮🇹 fashion legend Valentino had a man by his side his entire life: Giancarlo Giammetti (now 83) 60 years as collaborators, 12 years as partners This old conversation is epic and delightfully hilarious ⚜️

@srikat What's Monarch's Instant Send?

New year, new defaults: - Google Chrome → Helium - Workflowy+NotePlan → UpNote (since I'm also using Linux and Windows) - Anybox → Raindrop free version (same reason as above) - LaunchBar+Raycast → Monarch (has Instant Send!) What else should I try out this year? (copying the popular format going around Twitter atm)

@valigo That's what you're doing right now as well, though. You pay for the entire library, too. Even if you don't need all of it.

@bartderuyck Why would I pay for components I don't need? And do I lose access to it if I stop paying? Or do I get to keep the version that I already use?

Making a business on top of open source software already was near impossible. And now OSS maintainers who want to earn money are extra screwed. AI will scrape your project site, users will never visit it for documentation and will never know about your commercial product. And we're not talking about some random small library. This is the world's most used CSS framework that's growing day by day. At this point, the only thing you will be able to do in open source is upselling LLM tokens.

@valigo For ongoing access to the library, with new components added periodically, why not? It could even be a two tier system, with a low yearly fee for solo devs and higher fees for teams. But recurring. To be clear, this is one option. But the current model isn't working.

@bartderuyck What's the alternative? UI toolkit that you need to pay monthly fee for?