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Less *is* more. Make your themes sleek and fast. Read Theme Performance.

Head on over to make.wordpress.org to see how you can contribute to WordPress.

Robert Dall on how and when to submit WordPress Trac tickets.

Pippin Williamson on the hallmarks of a great plugin and working with a developer community.

Chat about theming and plugins with like-minded souls over at Google+.

What Strunk & White can teach you about elegant code, courtesy of Nikolay Bachiyski.

Meet PHP devotee, code sensei, and GoDaddy dev Kurt Payne.

Extend custom post types, content types, taxonomies, and more with the Pods Framework.

Responsive design rationale, patterns, and news. F’you.

It’s Mike Schroder, WordPress Core contributor, happy DreamHost employee, and coffee geek.