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- Gabriel Dawe
8/3/2026
New artist I’m obsessed with: Gabriel Dawe . I love the colors and craft, very Mesh . If his site were on WordPress , we’d definitely commission some pieces.…
- Tesla Spyware
7/31/2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; othe…
- Possible Futures of Happiness
7/30/2026
At Automattic , we don’t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers . 🙂 There’s also a #ceo Slack channel where anyone can drop in and re…
- Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui
7/28/2026
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 anniversar…
- How ISO Works
7/25/2026
Inspired by Om I’ve been getting back into my DSLR photography. I learned a lot about how ISO settings work from this delightful physics YouTube channel Minu…
- AI Slop
7/22/2026
If you’re going to give me AI slop, at least make it fun! Give me iambic pentameter . Make it all rhyme. Have it be a song . I think we’re under-utilizing th…
- Important Security Update
7/17/2026
WordPress 7.0.2 went out today with two important security updates. One is a type of pre-authorization RCE we (fortunately!) have only seen a few times in Wo…
- Code for the People
7/8/2026
Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Int…
- USA 250
7/4/2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013 . On a globe, America is a l…
- Om Links
6/27/2026
There has been a lot of excitement about the OmFest idea. If you’d like to attend or contribute, please fill out this form as soon as possible so we can gaug…
- All Roads Lead to Om
6/25/2026
Yesterday, my best friend and brother from another mother, Om Malik, passed away . They say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker…
- No Bubble
6/23/2026
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. Hat tip…
- Hill For A Stepper
6/21/2026
In honor of Father’s Day, I wanted to add to the two quotes from my Dad’s obituary , “Seven days without chicken made one weak.” and “If you fail at raising …
- Death by PowerPoint
6/20/2026
PowerPoint makes us stupid. — Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander Classic 2010 NYT We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint .
- Best Trash
6/20/2026
A typography savant on staff had spent a month designing link underlines (literally just lines) that were more visually pleasing than Chrome or Safari’s defa…
- Midjourney Medical
6/19/2026
I’m sorry I couldn’t be there in person, but I was so excited to watch the Midjourney Medical launch from afar. This is a really big deal. David Holz , one o…
- Audio Wars
6/16/2026
It looks like Ubiquiti is coming for Sonos with its PoE Audio Port, a $199 device that closely resembles the $499 Sonos Port , and $599 PowerAmp . Sonos is g…
- Assorted Links
6/15/2026
Sometimes you have to just start with beauty. Listen to Jon Batiste’s Beethoven Blues , then relish this interview, where he plays and talks about it . I can…
- WCEU
6/5/2026
Cześć wszystkim, Kraków… I made the call not to fly to Poland for WordCamp Europe . I’m very sorry for the last-minute notice; I was really hoping to make it…
- Bee Champion
6/1/2026
Spelling bees have gotten a lot more intense. How many of these do you know? torrone, enthymeme, iguape, Denebola, fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, monadnock…
- Maybe
5/30/2026
I think I heard this parable somewhere in the 14 hours of Alan Watts lectures someone recommended to me in 2017 , but here’s a beautiful 2-minute version I’d…
- RIP Sonny Rollins
5/26/2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus , has passed . He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would ta…
- TheOpenSource
4/6/2026
It’s very cool to see Theo / t3.gg ‘s open source arc. Just in general, with people creating more software than ever, it’s so exciting to see an explosion of…
- Easter Thoughts
4/5/2026
You call yourself a Christian engineer, but you haven’t given your life to Open Source? Huh. What license would Jesus choose? I don’t know if it’s GPL or MIT…
- Turn Every Page
4/4/2026
If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlie…
- Pedro Franceschi
4/3/2026
This Ashlee Vance interview of Pedro Franceschi from Brex contains so many interesting stories it might cause you to reconsider what it means to be a CEO.
- EmDash Feedback
4/2/2026
So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security . (Is it nominative determinism or a si…
- Taxonomist
4/1/2026
I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the…
- JAŸ-Z Returns
3/29/2026
Since he spoke to Dean Baquet in 2017 , JAŸ-Z hasn’t done an interview. Hov’s back! He sat down with GQ , and it’s a lovely listen and read. We played enough…
- Community Antibodies
3/28/2026
First, I want to say how great the jazz scene is in New York. I caught a little Latin at my go-to Guantanamera last night, but the band seemed to be phoning …
- Stockfish
3/28/2026
Nobody is arguing that Stockfish is conscious, but Stockfish would kick Claude’s ass at chess. Kevin Lincoln in AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredicta…
- Ari & X
3/25/2026
I’m in NYC for the Stephan Wolfram dev/ai/nyc conversation tomorrow at the Automattic Noho space . While walking back from the Apple Store in Soho where I ha…
- Beautiful Hack
3/24/2026
It’s bad, but it’s so good. As you read this deep dive into the LiteLLM backdoor hack , or this one , it’s really just quite impressive. The use of ICP canis…
- WP.com MCP
3/23/2026
If you host your WordPress on WordPress.com your AI agent can now manage your entire site , including updating posts or pages, making drafts, pretty much all…
- Miriam’s Sweet Site
3/22/2026
Long-time WordPresser Miriam Schwab just rebuilt her WordPress site with Claude Code and it looks amazing . Go check it out, this is what is possible now wit…
- Bay Lights are Back!
3/20/2026
Tonight, a project very near and dear to my heart, the Bay Lights in San Francisco , are officially re-lighting after a three-year hiatus. It’s been an incre…
- Introducing Me.sh
3/20/2026
Very excited to share that the Clay.earth team that joined Automattic last year is re-launching under a new, very cool name and brand: Mesh . Imagine somethi…
- Song Creation
3/14/2026
I’m in New Orleans for the first time in 7 years for a beautiful wedding. My Mom’s side of the family emigrated here in the 1860s, and there’s a deep comfort…
- New Headphones
3/13/2026
Not doing a full What’s In My Bag yet, but I do want to highlight I’ve been really enjoying the Sennheiser HDB 630 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones . Hat tip: Ph…
- Selling Your Company
3/13/2026
I would like to offer some free business advice to people who are considering selling something they’ve created. First, if the buyer insists you don’t talk t…
- Tumblr Unblocked
3/12/2026
For a brief period, Tumblr was unavailable to the 115M+ people in the Philippines because the government had blocked it. To their credit, the Philippines CIC…
- Popping Bottles
3/12/2026
With the rise of GLP-1 drugs, there’s a trend that magnums are being ordered at clubs to meet minimums but left unfinished. I think there’s a space for an ul…
- WordPress Everywhere
3/11/2026
As we announced and TechCrunch covered , my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress…
- Gone (Almost) Phishin’
3/9/2026
This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last…
- Declaration of the Independence
3/7/2026
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of…
- Bar Gyu x Wapuu
3/5/2026
For the Japanese WordPress community , I have planted a special Wapuu at the coolest spot in Niseko, Bar Gyu , aka the refrigerator door bar. Now on the hand…
- Emacs
3/3/2026
People are doing pretty interesting things with Emacs (now on version 30.2!) these days, if you haven’t checked in recently. The bleeding edge has always bee…
- Sunday Links
3/1/2026
Five items: Automattic’s new transparency report is up , and TorrentFreak covers how AI-generated notices have been flooding the system . We don’t talk about…
- Enablement
2/26/2026
This year at Automattic has been intense. We kicked it off with two weeks of in-person AI enablement training, and there’s a great post about it now . I’ve b…
- Great Writing
2/25/2026
Especially in an age where generating words is cheap, when you come across truly great writing, it really stands out. I want to pull two quotes from The Econ…