Matt: Ben on Bubbles
Check out Ben Thompson of Stratechery (one of the most valuable subscriptions) on The Benefits of Bubbles.
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Gutenberg Times: State of the Word, WordPress 6.9, Forms styling, Interactivity API, and more — Weekend Edition 348
Hi there, Next week is Release Candidate 1 week! Subscribe to the Make Core Blog, if you haven’t yet, to get all the Dev Notes and the Fieldguide notifications. “String freeze” is this state of the release called until the final release on December 2, 2025. It’s also the start of the last four weeks…
Matt: Kaycee Nicole
Mimi Lamarre at Switchboard Magazine has a delightful long read in The Curious Case of Kaycee Nicole, where, in the early days of online communities and blogging, a fake person claimed to have leukemia. The blogging community was relatively small back then, and I recall some of this happening contemporarily.
Matt: Conversation with John Borthwick
I’m often on the other side, but it’s such a delight to be an interviewer, I really enjoy it and put a lot of work into coming up with questions and shaping a conversation I think will draw out something novel from the person. Besides the Distributed Podcast, I’ve had a chance at events to…
Introducing WPChat: Your Live Chat Assistant for WordPress That Converts
Have you ever lost a customer because they couldn’t find an answer fast enough? Maybe they had one simple question before checkout… but couldn’t reach anyone for help. That lost sale probably went straight to your competitor. Now, imagine if you could instantly interact with every visitor on your website. That means you can answer…
Matt: Post-talk Recs
I just got off stage from the great dev/ai/nyc event with John Borthwick, we had a wide-ranging discussion that we’ll post online soon. We had hundreds of people in the room and hundreds on the waitlist… the energy in NYC is electric! As a few recommendations from the event, I recommended revisiting the movie Her…
#192 – Joshua Bryant on How Dow Jones Is Supercharging WordPress Editorial Workflows
Transcription [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how Dow Jones is supercharging WordPress editorial workflows. If you’d like to subscribe…
I Turned My WordPress Site into a Mobile App — Here’s What I Learned
If you’ve ever tried building an online community on your WordPress site, you know how hard it is to keep people engaged. At first, some members sign up and post a few updates, but before long, activity drops off and the community goes quiet. 📉 The issue isn’t your content or idea. It’s the experience….
Matt: Andrej on Dwarkesh
Most interviews I watch at 1.5-2x speed, but among my friends, we joke that there are a few people for whom we really enjoy their thoughts at 1x (shoutout to JT). I’m an unabashed fanboy of Andrej Karpathy (blogged nanochat Oct 13), and his interview with Dwarkesh is excellent. It’s very dense; I marinated it…
WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9 Beta 3
WordPress 6.9 Beta 3 is available for download and testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please don’t install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, you can evaluate Beta 3 on a test server and site. WordPress 6.9 Beta 3 can be tested…