Joost de Valk
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Wijchen, Nederland
Joined March 2009
I fear
@OliverSildis right. And I’m not sure how we deal with that as a community. How _any_ open source community deals with this pressure. The pressure being put on the commons is insane, and in many cases, not enough money is flowing into them to maintain them well.
I predict it's a matter of time when a 0 day will be dropped in WordPress core (vulnerability disclosed before core releases a fix for it). I already see people publishing the vulnerability reports they have sent via HackerOne to WordPress core, but which have not been fixed for
MCP 2026-07-28 shipped today: no more handshake, no more sessions. That's how static sites already served MCP; the spec just caught up. What changed in my endpoint, why tools/list can now live on the CDN, and how my agent skills now ship over MCP:
For some of the work I’m doing I had to write down where I think websites are headed and what that means for SEO, and since I did, I decided to make a blog post out of it too:
This... Is probably the best explanation of what SEOs call "keyword research". Write in the language your customers use. There is the risk of navelgazing in this, so I would add one thing: talk to 100 or so prospective customers that didn't buy your product yet too.
Every marketing team should do this simple test. At random, ask 100 of your existing customers to describe your product in their own words. No leading the witness. Then look at how you describe your product on your site. Don’t dismiss obvious differences by telling yourself,
When Dries wrote about License-only versus Stewarded Open Source, I knew I had to write a follow-on to that: