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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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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