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When talking about luxury fashion, there are certain conventions that consumers have come to expect: sumptuous materials, opulent detailing, and conceptual—if not impractical—design. Fortunately, Freitag designer Anne Bachmann doesn’t dabble in conventions.Read the full show notes

Divi Components and Slots have arrived, introducing a completely new way to build reusable designs in Divi 5. 🎉 This is one of the most important updates to Divi since Variables and Presets! Components are the evolution of Divi’s Global Elements. They retain the power of...Read the full show notes

Veronica Mishaan grew up with a love of design. Sure, it helps that her mother, Susana Mishaan de Millán, was also a successful designer in Bogotá and...Read the full show notes

WordPress 7.2 adds NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES to the list of SQL modes that WordPress doesn’t support. WordPress already turns off some modes, such as STRICT_ALL_TABLES, TRADITIONAL and ANSI, when it connects to the database. This mode is now on that list too. Why this change? WordPress uses the backslash character...Read the full show notes

Last week, there were 501 vulnerabilities disclosed in 367 WordPress Plugins and 9 WordPress Themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 201 Vulnerability Researchers that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerabilities in this report now to ensure your site is...Read the full show notes

For yacht owners arriving in a Mediterranean port, finding a way to explore the surrounding town presents a different sort of transportation challenge. Zipping around on a Vespa might sound charming, but not...Read the full show notes

“I think we might lose public key cryptography.” ~Matthew Green The above is from Matthew Green, yesterday, who is a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins. OpenAI released over 700 mathematical proofs as a github repository yesterday. They’ve since withdrawn 3 of them. The reaction from...Read the full show notes

The kitchen in Josephine Yaa Akuamoa’s new home on Copenhagen’s Paper Island spent its first five years in a workspace. Danish kitchen design company Garde Hvalsøe created...Read the full show notes

When a page has several buttons, a request like “update the button in the pricing section” can leave room for interpretation. Divi AI Agents can work with your page structure, but attaching the exact element makes your target clearer. Context lets you reference a module, preset, variable, page, or...Read the full show notes

A web design degree used to be the obvious way to learn the craft. Now it’s competing with YouTube, AI, and people who spend those same years actually building things — so if universities can’t offer something better, students have every right to ask what they’re paying for.Read the full show notes

Bot traffic is becoming a bigger part of the web, and a bigger consideration for anyone managing a website. That was reinforced by Kinsta’s analysis of more than 10 billion requests in a year when AI-driven bot traffic was reported to have increased some 300%. With automated traffic...Read the full show notes

You wouldn’t think a 7,000-square-foot West Coast modern home would settle in so perfectly on a historical site above the West Vancouver oceanfront. But Openspace Architecture made...Read the full show notes