Matt Mullenweg

How employment is changing at Anthropic is a fascinating read.

Enjoying with Matías.

We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer.

For the next 30 days, a few billion of you will get an extra header in honor of Eric Binnion.

Speaking of sci-fi authors, Automattic is hosting Neal Stephenson for a livestream about his new book soon, please tune in!

Automattic is always 5–15 years ahead of other companies, but things happen faster now.

Fellow Automattician Job Thomas, down in Cape Town, South Africa, has a lovely story about using Claude and the Beeper MCP to wrangle all the group chats for his daughter’s sports.

Bruce is one of my favorite writers.

OmFest is coming together quite nicely!

It’s official in SF Standard: Stewart Brand sells his seaworthy Sausalito houseboat to tech CEO.

I know everyone has been waiting to hear what’s been going on behind the scenes, so I’m just going to lay it out: I’ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand’s houseboat Mirene.

It’s a really big deal that we’re scanning all the plugins now.

Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.”

A few times during the WordCamp US keynote, I asked for a show of hands and got mostly blank stares back, especially on the AI questions.

When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now.

Sarah Perez at TechCrunch writes: WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan. $24/yr, starting with “6 GB of storage, backups, staging sites, and other tools, as well as support for plug-ins, SFTP/SSH, phpMyAdmin, a…

TechCrunch on how Me.sh (née Clay) is now available on Android.

Beeper has some fun new features where you can merge chats with the same person across multiple networks, polls, labels… Very exciting work happening on that product.

Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest.

I have so many tools for organization and management across Asana, Google Workspace, P2, and Linear, but they’re not really connected.

Toni Schneider, Automattic’s founding CEO, board member, and now CEO of Bluesky, has a great conversation with Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast (YouTube, Pocket Casts).

Inspired by Automatticians James Kemp and Dave Smith, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much of our discord in the design of WordPress stems from the differences of our two big tribes: Bloggers and Builders.

I’m trying out this thing, it’s trained on my blog posts and public talks, that you can chat with as me on Telegram.

I don’t usually blog all my comments other places, but while drafting a completely different blog post I came across this great post, Michel Valdrighi: The Coder Whose Code Never Went Silent.

New artist I’m obsessed with: Gabriel Dawe.

I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi.

At Automattic, we don’t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers.

I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston.

Inspired by Om I’ve been getting back into my DSLR photography.

If you’re going to give me AI slop, at least make it fun!

WordPress 7.0.2 went out today with two important security updates.

Lights!

This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013.

There has been a lot of excitement about the OmFest idea.

Yesterday, my best friend and brother from another mother, Om Malik, passed away.

A throwback from 2007: a local Bay Area a cappella group called The Richter Scales made a Webby Award-winning viral video about how that bubble felt.