Among the many perks of working for a company with a history so tightly-intertwined with that of the open-source WordPress project is that license to attend WordCamps - the biggest WordPress conferences - is basically a given.

It's frankly a wonder that this is, somehow, my first WordCamp. wp-cli, automattic, athens 2023, hackathon, wordcamp, work, conferences, wordpress, open source, conference

Earlier this week, I mentioned the exciting hackathon that produced a moderately-faithful reimagining of the world's first Web browser. I was sufficiently excited about it that I not only blogged here but I also posted about it to MetaFilter. Of course, the very first thing that everybody there history, hackathon, web, metafilter, geek, flags, debugging, programming, cern, technology, geeky, web browsers

This month, a collection of some of my favourite geeks got invited to CERN in Geneva to participate in a week-long hackathon with the aim of reimplementing WorldWideWeb - the first web browser, circa 1990-1994 - as a web application. I'm super jealous, but I'm also really pleased with what they

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