Saturday’s coffee: The states

This week I gave more attention to Medium. I learnt about it’s partner program and the premium offer. I enrolled in both. And I’m very excited with it.
I also wrote my first story.
As a developer that learnt a lot about programming reading other’s blogs I always felt compelled to give back in some way, and that’s why I keep my personal blog where from time…to time I post mostly about WordPress.
The state of drama
Gutenberg 3.7 is available for download full of new features and improvements at the same time there’s a new WordPress fork, The ClassicPress, trying to gain traction among the discontents with the current development path and specially with Gutenberg.
Funny that one of the most voted features to include in a future release of ClassicPress is to remove the Hello Dolly plugin from a fresh installation. Yes, we all remove it as soon as we install WordPress, so maybe we could think about this repeated task as some kind of voodoo towards the creator of the plugin. Just to relief some Gutenberg stress. irony alert
Changes will always cause frictions, and this is no different in an Open Source project like WordPress.
The Latin of the word decision [decidere] literally means, “to cut off.” Making a decision is about “cutting off” choices — cutting you off from some other course of action. Now that may sound a little severe and limiting, but it’s not. It’s liberating. — Rob Falvey ¹
There’s also a petition running on to try to keep the Gutenberg out of the WordPress core until the community agrees to.
I completely understand the discontent with Gutenberg but after using it in two real life projects, with all the pains of learning something new, the lack of documentation, the unstable API, the bugs, I must say the end result is far better than keeping the same status-quo with tinyMCE, pretending to be The Most Advanced WYSIWYG HTML Editor. RIP
The state of JavaScript
There’s a call to action to take the 2018’s survey.
I’m very curious with this year’s results, specially with how Vue.js performed since last year’s survey. The numbers from last year show there’s a growing interest around Vue.js so let’s see how much of this interest turn into real users.
This is it, my first Saturday’s Coffee dispatch. Enjoy your weekend and see you on the other side!
