Matt: Stockfish
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 Unpredictable Again.
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Gary: Claudaborative Editing 0.2: now with 500% more collaboration!
A week ago, I put together a quick tech demo, showing how an MCP server could be created for Claude Code that hooked directly into Gutenberg’s Collaborative Editing feature, allowing it to act as a digital collaborator on a post. The demo focused primarily on text generation, but that’s not really the benefit that I…
Gutenberg Times: WordPress 7.0 Source of Truth, Playground MCP, Gutenberg 22.8, PHP-only Blocks and more — Weekend Edition 362
Hi, In less than two weeks, WordPress 7.0 is scheduled to be released. Are you ready? Or are you someone I used to be who waits two to three weeks to see what quirks early adopters find and if they warrant an early point release? Be that as it may, waiting only delays the inevitable,…
Gutenberg Times: WordPress 7.0 Source of Truth
Welcome to the Source of Truth for WordPress 7.0! Before you dive headfirst into all the big and small changes and pick your favorites, make sure to read these preliminary thoughts about this post and how to use it. If you have questions, leave a comment or email me at pauli@gutenbergtimes.com. Huge Thank You to…
Open Channels FM: Shaping Data Sovereignty and Internet Resilience
In recent years, the concept of data sovereignty has become increasingly important. As more countries introduce or tighten regulations around where and how data must be stored and protected, companies serving the global internet community face a unique set of challenges. These regulatory requirements force hosting providers and infrastructure companies to think not just about…
Stop Losing Sales: How to Add a WooCommerce Cart Reserved Timer
The most frustrating part of running a WooCommerce store is watching a customer add a product to their cart only to disappear at the final second. You did the hard work of getting them to your site, but you miss out on the sale. When shoppers leave your products sitting in an open tab, they…
WordPress.org blog: WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2
The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC2 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase…
Open Channels FM: How AI and Cloud Tools Are Transforming WooCommerce Development and Testing
In this episode, Derek talks with WooCommerce’s Brian Coords about how AI is reshaping e-commerce, from automating tasks to enhancing flexibility for developers and merchants. Brian shares insights on using AI for better workflows and community engagement.
Gary: Embed All The Things!
Over 10 years ago, we introduced the oEmbed API to WordPress, expanding how WordPress handled embedding to cover all WordPress sites. It was an intentional decision to focus on oEmbed at the time: we wanted to focus on the embedding mechanism that would give site owners maximum control over what their embeds looked like. The…
Matt: Ari & X
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 had picked up a new Studio Display XDR to try out, ran into one of my favorite YouTube accounts to follow right now, Ari at Home! I ran into…