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WordCamp Central: WordPress Udupi Community Empowers 300+ Students Across Coastal Karnataka Through Campus Connect

As the lead organiser representing the WordPress Udupi Community, I had the incredible opportunity to bring WordPress Campus Connect to college campuses across Coastal Karnataka.What began as a small idea soon became a mission – to introduce WordPress, open source, and digital opportunities to the next generation of creators. Across all our sessions, we interacted…

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Matt: Meshtastic

I’ve been following this cool open source project called Meshtastic, which is “An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.” I finally got some time to set it up tonight. It was super easy; you just flash the Meshtastic firmware in your browser to any of the compatible devices….

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Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg Changelog #124 – Gutenberg 22.0 and WordPress 6.9

In episode 124 of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast, Birgit Pauli-Haack and guest Ellen Bauer discuss the latest WordPress and Gutenberg updates, including the upcoming WordPress 6.9 release and Gutenberg 22.0. Highlights include insights on AI-powered site building, the importance of collaboration tools like block comments, new blocks such as accordion and stretchy text, and the enhanced plugin security review. …

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Gutenberg Times: State of the Word, WordPress 6.9, Forms styling, Interactivity API, and more β€” 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…

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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.

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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…

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