In 2005, Joomla wasn’t launched with venture capital, a corporate roadmap, or even a clear long-term strategy. It began with something far more fragile and far more ambitious: a belief.

Open source does not work by accident. It works because people show up. We often describe that effort as "giving back." It’s a useful idea, but it may also be limiting how we think about contribution.

With Joomla 6.1, a small but powerful enhancement was added to the TinyMCE editor: dedicated buttons for inserting, editing and removing the HTML <abbr> element.

The 80/20 rule isn’t just some nice talking point for economics class. It’s real, it’s brutal, and it applies perfectly to software development.

We like to believe that recruitment is a fair process where the best candidate rises to the top. The reality is far less comforting and far more efficient.

Your website isn’t broken because Joomla is hard. It’s broken because no one owns it. By "owns it," I don’t mean who signed the invoice. I mean someone capable, responsible, and empowered enough to actually make decisions before the whole thing rots.

There’s a lie many web agencies tell themselves: that clients choose them because they’re Joomla experts. That somehow their deep knowledge of Joomla is the deciding factor.

Everyone loves a story about some genius swooping in and changing the world overnight. It’s neat. It’s inspiring. And it’s utter nonsense. Real progress is messy, boring at times, and absolutely depends on ordinary people actually doing the work and dealing with each other without throwing a tantrum.

There are many irritating phrases in the English language, but one sits firmly at the top of my list: "no offence but". It is the most dishonest phrase in everyday conversation.

You know the one. It arrives politely at the start of a sentence, pretending to be considerate. It tries to disguise itself as empathy. In reality it means exactly the opposite.