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DEV: Block To The Future

Welcome to DEV, your fortnightly look at the past, present and future of WordPress.

We’ll meet you at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15am to give you the latest developments, smart projects and community updates, to help you speed into your next project with confidence, no flux capacitor required. 

Stick around to the end to see a grandpa who insists he doesn’t want a kitty hat.

In today’s edition:

  • In Patchstack’s first test, 88% of threats bypassed “secure” hosting defenses. They tried again. Did things improve?
  • The Future is Female: The Community Team brings back a super-successful women-led WordPress event initiative.
  •  Plus, handy tools for bug squashing, 404-dodging, code highlighting and block pattern wrangling.

Hot Off The Presses: What’s New?

Meme showing a driver swerving toward “Random new feature I just thought of” instead of “Long to-do list of bug fixes and improvements.

Get in, Marty! Where we’re going, we don’t need roadmaps.