#gutenberg — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gutenberg, aggregated by home.social.
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WordPress friends, if I'm not wrong, the site editor doesn't have a way to do `align-items: start`, I'm in the progress of migrating my classic theme to a block theme of my photos site, and for this layout to work, I need to use one line of custom CSS to get it done which is of course not an issue for me. Just curious/surprised to know that there is no such setting available.
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On this episode of The WP Minute+ podcast, Matt is joined by Jared Rethman, creator of WPSignal, a tool that adds real-time infrastructure to WordPress. It started as an idea for powering Google Docs-style collaborative editing. But Jared shares how this technology can transform WordPress development and what it means for the platform’s evolution. He also reflects on the diminishing importance […]
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Gutenberg is huge for a reason. That does not mean every editor has to be.
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Classic Editor still holds millions of installs. The block editor is a multi-megabyte platform. Minn[…]
#WordPress #Uncategorized #Gutenberghttps://www.wpnews.io/gutenberg-is-huge-for-a-reason-that-does-not-mean-every-editor-has-to-be/
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The attached version of the Pliny the Elder cover is a slight improvement relative to the version that you have. The text is a little sharper and I've attempted other corrections. However, you be the judge.
If the neural net person stops by again, his version will probably be better. My techniques are more manual. OTOH my results might be closer to the originals.
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📚✨Behold! Another tech bro reinvented the library as tale.fyi, where you can read or listen to public domain books as if that weren't already possible since #Gutenberg. 🙄 Apparently, the world was clamoring for the groundbreaking ability to switch between reading and listening—who knew? 🤷♂️
https://tale.fyi/@sam/announcing-tale-fyi-read-or-listen-to-an-entire-book-from-a-single-link #techinnovation #libraryrevolution #audiobooks #publicdomain #HackerNews #ngated -
Die #Bundesregierung will das #IFG zerlegen und damit #Bürgerrechte und #Pressefreiheit einschränken.
Gerade die #CDU #CSU lügt und betrügt hier und das auch aus guten Grund.
- #Spahn|s Maskenaffäre
- #Reiche|s geheime Absprachen
- #Amthor|s Lobbyaffäre und Bereicherung
- #Scheuer|s Vertuschung im Mautskandal
- #Gutenberg|s Lobbying für #Wirecard
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React 19: punted beyond WordPress 7.1, experiment in Gutenberg
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WordPress 7.1 continues to use React 18.3 React 19 upgrade won’t be a part of[…]
#WordPress #Core #Gutenberg #React #WordPress71https://www.wpnews.io/react-19-punted-beyond-wordpress-7-1-experiment-in-gutenberg/
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What’s new in #Gutenberg 23.6? (July 22, 2026) https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-23-6-july-22-2026/
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🌱 😀 👯 #Cannabis ist eine uralte, vielseitige #Nutzpflanze. In der heutigen Zeit werden immer mehr #ProdukteausHanf hergestellt. Er gilt als einer der nachhaltigsten #RohstoffederZukunft.
Bereits vor 12.000 Jahren nutzten Menschen in #China und #Persien den Rohstoff Hanf: Aus den #Fasern stellten sie #Textilien und #Papier her. Sogar die erste #Bibel von #Gutenberg wurde 1455 auf Hanf gedruckt.
#Genussmittel #Medizin #Kleidung #Nahrungsmittel #Bundesregierung #Hanfwissen
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Have you heard about the "Click Target API" in #WordPress? No? No wonder — I just created an issue to discuss the idea:
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🎙️ Gutenberg Changelog #132 is out — and there was a lot to catch up on.
Ellen Bauer, product manager at WordPress.com and early adopter of block themes, joined me to walk through the road to WordPress 7.1 and latest Gutenberg plugin releases
Listen, plus full show notes and transcript:
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Guidelines for Syncing Code From Gutenberg Into WordPress Develop
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During the 7.0 release cycle, the way code maintained in the Gutenberg repository is imported[…]
#WordPress #Dev #Gutenberg #repository #WordPressDevelophttps://www.wpnews.io/guidelines-for-syncing-code-from-gutenberg-into-wordpress-develop/
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What’s new in #Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026) https://buff.ly/u8XlPnU
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Ich habe gerade über Projekt Gutenberg Die (göttliche) Komödie von Dante aufgerufen.
Das ist also Niveau 6. Klasse? Einfach zu lesen?
Beispiel:
"Nachdem der Kaiser Konstantin, entgegen
Der Himmelsbahn, gewendet jenen Aar,
Der einst ihr folgt auf des Äneas Wegen,
Da sah man mehr als schon zweihundert Jahr
Zeus Vogel an Europens Rand verbringen,
Nah dem Gebirg, dem er entflogen war.
Beherrschend unterm Schatten heilger Schwingen
Von dort die Welt, ging er von Hand zu Hand,
Bis ihm beim Wechsel meine Hand empfingen." -
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
#HackerNews #Memoirs #Extraordinary #Delusions #Madness #Crowds #Gutenberg
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Impressions of America
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Oscar Wilde
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41806/41806-h/41806-h.htm #OscarWilde #America #Gutenberg
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Géométrie hyperbolique dans (lua)latex avec le package luahyperbolic, Le jeudi 2 juillet 2026 de 20h00 à 21h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/35463 #latex #lua #lualatex #géométrieHyperbolique #gutenberg #visioConférence
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“The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation”*…
An example of dialogue with an early chatbot, excerpted from from its creator Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 book “Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation.”Matt Pearce revisits Neil Postman‘s 1992 Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology…
In the 1960s, a German-American computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum coded an early version of today’s AI chatbots. Weizenbaum called his program ELIZA, after the “My Fair Lady” character Eliza Doolittle who takes speech lessons (and gets better).
How people reacted to Weizenbaum’s crude creation tells us almost everything we need to know about AI hype more than half a century later.
ELIZA could hold basic “conversations,” including playing the role of a psychotherapist with real human users. [In the example above, ELIZA’s responses to one woman are shown in capital letters.]
Anybody with a cursory awareness of recent headlines about AI romances and AI psychosis already knows where this is going. ELIZA’s human interlocuters in the 1960s, despite talking to a clunky machine they knew had been programmed by Weizenbaum, refused to believe that they were talking to a mere machine. His secretary, having watched him build the contraption over several months, after just a few exchanges with ELIZA, asked Weizenbaum to leave the room so she could have some privacy.
Weizenbaum, exhibiting a bit of Freudian sangfroid about all this, was not surprised to see people form emotional attachments with inanimate objects. He’d already seen people get attached to their cars or guitars or computers. But “what I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people,” Weizenbaum wrote in his 1976 book “Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation.”…
… I learned about Weizenbaum’s ELIZA experiment from Neil Postman’s 1992 book “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology,” a work of technoconservatism that, like Weizenbaum’s writings, was imbued with foresight about our struggles with today’s vastly more powerful technologies.
Consider this passage from Postman’s “Technopoly”:
In a technocracy, tools play a central role in the thought-world of the culture. Everything must give way, in some degree, to their development. The social and symbolic worlds become increasingly subject to the requirements of that development. Tools are not integrated into the culture; they attack the culture. They bid to become the culture. As a consequence, tradition, social mores, myth, politics, ritual, and religion have to fight for their lives.
Technology, attacking and taking over the culture? Bending society to its own imperative for advancement? In my United States of America? Postman (most famous for writing “Amusing Ourselves to Death”) thought the U.S. was the world’s first “Technopoly,” a society marked by “the submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology,” where information itself has become a form of pollution.
To Postman, “the milieu in which Technopoly flourishes is one in which the tie between information and human purpose has been severed, i.e., information appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning or purpose.”
Neil Postman wrote “Technopoly” before the introduction of ChatGPT and Sora; TikTok and YouTube; Twitter and Facebook; Google Search and the Netscape browser. Postman wrote the book before Windows 95 existed. A philosophy of technology that mostly holds up through successive eras of technical revolution has already passed time’s first test, which is for the philosophy to outlive the philosopher. And Postman’s philosophy is ultimately conservative, motivated by the desire to preserve the traditions of humanism, social cohesion and a shareable sense of collective history.
Technoconservatism was old before it was new. Postman quotes Plato’s “Phaedrus,” where Thamus warns that whoever learns writing (one of our first dangerous technologies) “will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful” and “will receive a quantity of information without proper instruction, and in consequence be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” And Postman, to his credit, is like — well, yeah! Writing really did that. A new technology is neither good nor bad, but ecological: it “does not add or subtract something. It changes everything. In the year 1500, fifty years after the printing press was invented, we did not have old Europe plus the printing press. We had a different Europe.”
In previous generations, societies dealt with information revolutions (which always produced information gluts) by creating institutions that prioritize “good” information and deprioritize the bad; think about schools with their organized curricula, courts with their standards of evidence, newspapers with their party lines or codes of journalistic ethics. But Postman notes that we got lucky after the Gutenberg revolution, when information technology’s development slowed down long enough for societies to catch up and be excellent:
From the early seventeenth century, when Western culture undertook to reorganize itself to accommodate the printing press, until the mid-nineteenth century [with the invention of the telegraph], no significant technologies were introduced that altered the form, volume, or speed of information. As a consequence, Western culture had more than two hundred years to accustom itself to the new information conditions created by the press. It developed new institutions, such as the school and representative government. It developed new conceptions of knowledge and intelligence, and a heightened respect for reason and privacy. It developed new forms of economic activity, such as mechanized production and corporate capitalism, and even gave articulate expression to the possibilities of a humane socialism. New forms of public discourse came into being through newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and books. It is no wonder that the eighteenth century gave us in the work of Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Vico, Edward Gibbon, and, of course, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Thomas Paine. I weight the list with America’s “Founding Fathers” because technocratic-typographic America was the first nation ever to be argued into existence in print.
Contrast the luxuriously slow social pace of the Gutenberg era with today’s information development timelines. Over the course of three decades, we’ve seen the rise and now-decline of the open web; the rise and now-decline of social media; the rise of short-form video and the rise of chatbots and synthetic information. All created enormous economic and philosophical disruptions whose fundamental impacts you can’t get a group of people in a room together to describe accurately. Among the disruptions: These increasingly efficient forms of sharing information keep encountering falling test scores; universities are trying to implement AI as their own students use it for cheating or boo the tech at their graduations; people are falling in love with their chatbots, which sometimes tell their users to kill themselves. A society that wants to understand itself probably wouldn’t act like this…
Read on for how we might — dare one suggest, should— act: “A society that wants to understand itself probably wouldn’t act like this,” from @mattdpearce.com.
Compare to/contrast with with Yuval Avnar‘s riff on Pascal’s musing on the implications of his invention, the “arithmetic machine” (an early, if not the first, modern mechanical calculator): “The Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You.“
* Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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As we introspect, we might send pointed birthday greetings to Ambrose Bierce; he was born on this date in 1842. His satirical lexicon The Devil’s Dictionary was named as one of “The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature” by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” has been described as “one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature”; and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.
A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States, and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi argues that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others; and he was an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades Bierce has gained even wider regard as a fabulist and for his poetry.
In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared over the border and was never seen again.
Apropos the piece featured above:
#AmbroseBierce #business #culture #education #Gutenberg #history #literature #MattPearce #NeilPostman #politics #society #TechnologyTELEPHONE, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
– The Devil’s Dictionary
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Katherina #Reiche ist ein Racheprojekt von Theodor zu #Gutenberg.
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“What, is he just posting about his colour palette?”
YES! Yes I am, because it took me *so long* to figure out a colour-system that is flexible, easy to maintain, works with my favourite theme *and* the block editor, passes WCAG 2.1AA contrast tests in *both* light- and dark-mode.
So yeah, I'm kind of proud. Just let me.
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What’s new in #Gutenberg 23.4? (June 17, 2026) https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06/17/whats-new-in-gutenberg-23-3-03-jun-2/
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I think the navigation overlay toggle in #WordPress could be better. What do you think?
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/79082
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TeXpresso : un rendu interactif pour (Xe)LaTeX, Le jeudi 4 juin 2026 de 20h00 à 21h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/35262 #latex #(xe)latex #texpresso #visioConférence #gutenberg