Developers at The Times & The Sunday Times sought to reduce unnecessary or time-intensive tasks in its editorial workflow. After a suggestion to look at Vox’s open source card generator for social sharing, Meme, the team spent time with the newsroom determining how it might expand upon the tool to create social sharing imagery that fits the style of the publisher, and saves time. The result was CardKit (now actually CardKit v2), still being tweaked for production but also open-sourced and now available for others to build upon.

+ A look inside how a countrywide paywall pact in Slovenia fell apart “The effort fell apart on the back of structure that split revenue three ways and technical glitches, but most of all it suffered from the most basic of problems: People didn’t sign up.” (Digiday)