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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 17/09/2026

Forget AI, after 21 major versions of Adobe InDesign, we still can't have a referenced footnote set in a non-threaded frame. Does my head in.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 03/09/2026

That might be the ultimate combo! I think walking helped strengthen the muscles around the lower back. Back pain is horrible.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 03/09/2026

For me, with flat feet, no, but you maybe a different case! I've found 45min of walking a day, coupled with a quality chair make the biggest differences to lower back pain. It took me about 5 chairs to find one that suited (for me, the 'Steelcase Gesture' worked).

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 27/08/2026

I'm not a fan of email in the browser, I much prefer a mail client. Because I'm now old. After an eon using Airmail on MacOS, a 400% price hike and the increasingly buggy perf moved me on to emClient. Wow, so much faster! It took me several hours to customise the UI mind you. www.emclient.com

emclient.com

eM Client - Email Client and Calendar Software for Windows and Mac

This free email client should be installed on your desktop. eM Client is just great.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 26/08/2026

You’ve parked on the drainage channel? My neighbour kept doing that and now it has come loose, tripping up both the postie and the Amazon driver on a daily basis. A very silly thing indeed.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 03/08/2026

Such a dark pattern isn't it

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 03/08/2026

Despite checking boxes, confirming cancelation and declining offers begging him to stay, my father has to speak to Ionos on the phone before they will cancel his sub-par email service. Funny they don't insist on a phone call to sign up 😒

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 30/07/2026

I have that sinking feeling that I may need to watch this more than once... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PrD...

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WordPress 7.1 is coming. Are your custom blocks ready?

YouTube video by Ryan Welcher Codes

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 13/07/2026

Interesting idea, but my word - talk about adding cognitive load! Speaking as someone with with a colour deficiency, I'd much rather designers used form rather than colour to differentiate information.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 02/07/2026

Lots of investors will ultimately loose a lot of money when the bubble bursts. The ‘valuations’ are bonkers, because there isn’t enough actual value.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 25/06/2026

We are British. Moaning about the weather is a constitutional right, and a moral obligation. It distracts us from everything else!

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 24/06/2026

Worth the hassle of switching from LocalWP - this seems to be a similar proposition?

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 08/06/2026

That’s about the sum of it! I reported some conversions to a client recently that came from ChatGPT. Their first question was ‘what did they ask?’, there second was ‘how do we update what ChatGPT says about us?’. Erm…. Well, Hmmm, shall we just take the win and not worry about the rest😬

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Folks, you don't need AI to check color contrasts. You also don't need AI, to get suggestions for colors that pass the contrast ratio. It's pure, good, old math formula. Not everything needs to be "AI". Also, here are many, color contrast tools and more to help you build accessible color palettes:

stephaniewalter.design

Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.

All the tools, tips and resources your need to build and check the color accessibility and color constrast of digital products!

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 09/10/2025

Looks fabulous, great work 👏

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 09/07/2025

Got to justify the inflated salaries and egos somehow😆 I favour the ‘do it in the way future-me won’t be cranky about’ approach.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 01/07/2025

100% I know you mean. I think a lot of people are feeling deflated the post-covid inflationary pressure alone, and I'm sure there's more going on besides.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 21/05/2025

Last year it was made very clear that key WordPress properties were the personal assets of its co-founder, to manage as they please. What structural changes are being introduced to ensure a community that values empathy, trust, safety and accountability can be reestablished?

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Dave Beesley @davidbeesley.co.uk · 24/04/2025

I've had a busy couple of evenings. I've ported my website to @astro.build with a Headless Wordpress back end (Sorry Umbraco Peeps - I will definitely give it a go in the future) Oh, and I finally wrote a thing - davidbeesley.co.uk/posts/my-key...

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My Key Lessons from 5 years of Remote Work - David Beesley

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 24/04/2025

Wise words and interesting stack Dave. After 13 years of forgetting to leave the house for days-on-end, I concur it’s not a great strategy for a healthy mind and body🫣

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 07/04/2025

Generate Blocks have just added this as a feature. I think something similar is mooted for core, but who know when, given recent events.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 19/03/2025

When I first stated working in International Development, this is was one of the first things I remember being impacted by. In those days it was via a Gall–Peters projection map we had on the wall in the office.

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Keith Devon @keithdevon.com · 18/03/2025

Apparently, seagulls “dance” like this to mimic the rain and trick worms to come to the surface.

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Object.Method() Man @iansvoboda.com · 05/03/2025

CSS Tip If you want to hide an element that has no children, it's tempting to reach for :empty. However, :empty doesn't work how you'd expect if there's white space or text nodes inside the element. Instead, use this: .your-element:not(:has(:first-child)) { display: none; }

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 28/02/2025

Awesome presentation @keithdevon.com and @markwilkinson.dev at last nights @wpldn.uk.. I love how you build the section nav and the scroll animations. So simple, yet so powerful!

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 28/02/2025

Forgot to post the link: contrast-checker.indigotree.co.uk

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Contrast Checker

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 28/02/2025

Great talk by @louisetowler.com on #a11y last night at @wpldn.uk. Louise share Indigo Tree's home-grown contrast checker tool, which has just about the best UI of any of (many) ones I've used previously. Thanks for Sharing 😎

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 27/02/2025

Pretty cool. Shame there's no support for animation-timelime in Safari though.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 24/02/2025

"First Look: Can Loveable.dev build a complex portfolio website?" from @jamiemarsland.bsky.social Interesting to make a cursory comparison of accessibility between the two... The AI version arguably slightly less bad than the original (but it's all React 😬). www.pootlepress.com/2025/02/firs...

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First Look: Can Loveable.dev build a complex portfolio website? – Pootlepress

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Flexbox Labs is a visual tool that helps you create layouts using CSS Flexbox. I like such sandbox tools where you can play around without writing code. I think it’s important for designers to at least understand what flexbox can do. flexboxlabs.netlify.app/

Screenshot of the tool, showing an area on the right, with numbered boxes (1 to 3), options to add, duplicate, remove them, and some flexbox properties on the left to control those on container and itmes (display flex, flex direction, etc).

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 19/02/2025

This is cool, two of my favourite WordPress plugins have hooked up! Both have had major updates recently, making them a proper power-couple now. Move over Posh & Becks, Barak & Michelle, Elton and Kiki... S+F Pro & Generate Blocks are where it's at 😂

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 18/02/2025

Another new client today totally unaware of the difference between WordPress OSS and wordpress.com. I wouldn't mind one jot if Open Source WordPress took on a new identity.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 14/02/2025

That's Food for Thought

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 14/02/2025

Oof. You have my sympathies. £170 for a keyboard which is glued together is obscene. If I saturate it with isopropyl alcohol, it starts working correctly... but I fear this isn't a realistic long-term solution 🤣

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 14/02/2025

For the record, I do not recommend tipping your flat white over your Apple 'Magic' keyboard. It's glued together and impossible to disassemble to clean 🤬

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 11/02/2025

An improved approach to calculating accessible contrast ratios is being considered for WCAG 3.0: ruitina.com/apca-accessi... As someone with a permanently skewed ICC profile baked into his firmware, I welcome the change!

ruitina.com

APCA: the new algorithm for accessible colour contrast

Orange is the new whatever

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 07/02/2025

Push notification from Lidl… I wonder if sales of their ‘USA’ range are a little down? 🤔

Lidl app notification reading: “Fancy a taste of the USA? Discover our McEnnedy range, in store now”

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 06/02/2025

I’ll check down the back of the sofa for you. Will they take Lego people and redundant remote controls?

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 06/02/2025

I haven't tried Cursor yet, but have used Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Windsurf to help build a few WP plugins. I echo what you and @nickdiego.com say; a substantial 'global rules' file makes a *massive* difference, as does a highly detailed initial prompt. From there on, it's remarkably productive.

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Nick Wilmot @nickwilmot.com · 05/02/2025

From the perspective of Brit, it's shocking watching the goings-on in the US. Is the strategy just to burn down much of what made America great? It makes no sense. I dearly hope it's the wakeup call we need as Europeans.

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