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• Getting external access to BuddyPress’s notifications (or: distributing Knowledge Commons)

  Crossposted from Martin Paul Eve, “Getting external access to BuddyPress’s notifications (for Knowledge Commons)”, https://eve.gd, February 18, 2025, https://doi.org/10.59348/gpbaz-kx09. As part of my work on Knowledge Commons, I want to make more of our development process open, welcoming, and transparent, by using blogging. So I will be writing some technical posts on what I’m doing…

• Our quest toward modern application architecture

  Over the last 18 months, the Commons tech team has been on a quest to modernize our development process and software architecture. Most significantly, we have moved from a workflow where development and testing happens remotely, and code updates to the site are made on-the-fly, to one where development happens locally and code is deployed…