Matt: Death by PowerPoint
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.
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Matt: Best Trash
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 defaults. On Tuesdays, engineers stayed late at the office, fixing design imperfections over dinner. One of them began a 2,500-word post about Medium’s CSS code with a quote attributed to Lil Wayne: “I…
Matt: Midjourney Medical
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 of the most underrated pioneers in AI, has taken money from making cat pictures to build a full-body ultrasound scanner that can give you incredible…
WordPress.org blog: Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Opens for WordCamp US 2026
Applications are now open for the 2026 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship, which supports one active WordPress contributor who identifies as a woman and has not previously attended WordCamp US. The scholarship helps make it possible for a community member with financial need to join WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona, and take part in one…
How to Scale a WooCommerce Store (15 Pro Tips)
Growing a WooCommerce store is one thing. Scaling it is a whole different challenge. At some point, the simple setups that got you to your first 100 sales will actually start to slow your website down as you grow. That’s where most store owners get stuck. Slow load times, abandoned carts, and checkout processes that…
Open Channels FM: Open Channels FM v4.8 Changelog
Bob Dunn has launched a blog commentary and a weekly series, “Open Tabs.” Do the Woo is now an independent podcast. Updates include a redesigned homepage, new episode features, and a newsletter format change.
WordPress.org blog: Global Partners Across the First Half of the 2026 WordPress Event Season
This post recaps how the WordPress project’s five Global Partners — Jetpack, WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Bluehost, and Hostinger — supported community events during the first half of 2026. Across more than a dozen regional the first WordPress Developers Day, and a growing network of WordPress Campus Connect events, Global Partners staffed booths, sponsored sessions, and connected…
Open Channels FM: AI Hype and Hope Navigating Optimism and Skepticism
In this episode, hosts and guests share diverse perspectives on AI’s rise, touching on its potential, challenges, and how it’s reshaping industries and human interaction.
9 Best AI Visibility Tools to Track Your Brand in AI Search
A few years ago, buying decisions happened on Google. People searched, clicked through a handful of sites, compared their options, and chose. That journey is collapsing into a single step. Now people ask AI tools, like ChatGPT, Gemini, or even ,Google to get a direct recommendation and act on it. The “compare a handful of…
WPTavern: #221 – Rahul Bansal on Using AI Everywhere at rtCamp
Transcript 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 using AI everywhere at rtCamp. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you…