TheOpenSource It's very cool to see Theo / t3.gg's open source arc. Just in general, with people creating more software than ever, it's so exciting to see an explosion of open source and a growing understanding of why working together on open source makes so much sense for the future we want to build.

TheOpenSource

It's very cool to see Theo / t3.gg's open source arc. Just in general, with people creating more software than ever, it's so exciting to see an explosion of open source and a growing understanding of why working together on open source makes so much sense for the future we want to…

Letting proprietary code dictate your life is like following a Bible you’re not allowed to read. Beware those who would seek to mediate your relationship to the divine.

Happy Easter, y’all. 🙏🐰🌈

Easter Thoughts You call yourself a Christian engineer, but you haven’t given your life to Open Source? Huh. What license would Jesus choose? I don’t know if it’s GPL or MIT, but sure as heck it isn’t proprietary.…

You call yourself a Christian engineer, but you haven’t given your life to Open Source? Huh.

What license would Jesus choose? I don’t know if it’s GPL or MIT, but sure as heck it isn’t proprietary.

If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The craft of research, writing, and editing is presented in the most beautiful way possible. Around 400,000 words were removed from The Power Broker, which was ultimately published as 1,162 pages.

If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The craft of research, writing, and editing is presented in the most beautiful way possible. Around 400,000 words were removed from The…

Pedro Franceschi This Ashlee Vance interview of Pedro Franceschi from Brex contains so many interesting stories it might cause you to reconsider what it means to be a CEO.

Pedro Franceschi

This Ashlee Vance interview of Pedro Franceschi from Brex contains so many interesting stories it might cause you to reconsider what it means to be a CEO.

I updated the post to say Portable Text, is it more correct to say TipTap? You can also comment on the blog post and call me out. :)

EmDash Feedback So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to terraform the web has some variation of "Matthew" in their name? I was in a call set up by Matthew Prince, talking to Matt Taylor and Matt Kane, with my right hand there, …

EmDash Feedback

So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to terraform the web has some variation of "Matthew" in their name? I was in a call set…

Taxonomist I'm really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old and I didn't really use anymore, and I wasn't happy with the structure.

Taxonomist

I'm really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old and I…

JAŸ-Z Returns Since he spoke to Dean Baquet in 2017, JAŸ-Z hasn't done an interview. Hov's back! He sat down with GQ, and it's a lovely listen and read. We played enough defense, 2026 is all about offense. Your morality defines who you are, not what you’ve attained.

JAŸ-Z Returns

Since he spoke to Dean Baquet in 2017, JAŸ-Z hasn't done an interview. Hov's back! He sat down with GQ, and it's a lovely listen and read. We played enough defense, 2026 is all about offense. Your morality defines who you are, not what you’ve attained.

Stephen Wolfram and Matt Mullenweg | dev/ai/nyc YouTube video by Automattic

The latest dev/ai/nyc was one for the books! 

We had a packed house at our NoHo Space, an incredible chat from @stephenwolfram.bsky.social and @ma.tt, and further proof that the future of applied AI is synonymous with open source.

Here’s the convo ICYMI.👇🎥

Community Antibodies First, I want to say how great the jazz scene is in New York. I caught a little Latin at my go-to Guantamera last night, but the band seemed to be phoning it in a bit, so I walked over to Dizzy's and heard an amazing big band performance by the Diva all-women Jass Orchestra, they had Clint Holmes…

Community Antibodies

First, I want to say how great the jazz scene is in New York. I caught a little Latin at my go-to Guantamera last night, but the band seemed to be phoning it in a bit, so I walked over to Dizzy's and heard an amazing big band performance by the Diva all-women Jass Orchestra,…

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.

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.

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

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 him around 32 minutes into this Twitch stream…

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…

Beautiful Hack It's bad, but it's so good. As you read this deep dive into the LiteLLM backdoor hack, or this one, it's really just quite impressive. The use of ICP canisters, wow. Just as an engineer, I'd love to meet the minds behind this code.

Beautiful Hack

It's bad, but it's so good. As you read this deep dive into the LiteLLM backdoor hack, or this one, it's really just quite impressive. The use of ICP canisters, wow. Just as an engineer, I'd love to meet the minds behind this code.

If you host your WordPress on WordPress.com your AI agent can now manage your entire site, including updating posts or pages, making drafts, pretty much all the things you normally do with WordPress. Hook this up to your OpenClaw, Hermes, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, whatever and have fun!

If you host your WordPress on WordPress.com your AI agent can now manage your entire site, including updating posts or pages, making drafts, pretty much all the things you normally do with WordPress. Hook this up to your OpenClaw, Hermes, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, whatever and have fun!

Long-time WordPresser Miriam Schwab just rebuilt her WordPress site with Claude Code and it looks amazing. Go check it out, this is what is possible now with proper prompting. I’d love to see a WordCamp keynote from Miriam on her process in this. (And she’s doing this while missiles are flying overhead. Wow.)

Long-time WordPresser Miriam Schwab just rebuilt her WordPress site with Claude Code and it looks amazing. Go check it out, this is what is possible now with proper prompting. I’d love to see a WordCamp keynote from Miriam on her process in this. (And she’s doing this while missiles are flying…

Bay Lights are Back! Tonight, a project very near and dear to my heart, the Bay Lights in San Francisco, are officially re-lighting after a three-year hiatus. It's been an incredible journey getting here. I literally mortgaged my apartment in 2013 to help fund them the first time around, and it's such an honor to see them relit now with better technology and new programming from the amazing artist…

Bay Lights are Back!

Tonight, a project very near and dear to my heart, the Bay Lights in San Francisco, are officially re-lighting after a three-year hiatus. It's been an incredible journey getting here. I literally mortgaged my apartment in 2013 to help fund them the first time around, and it's…

Introducing Me.sh Very excited to share that the Clay.earth team that joined Automattic last year is re-launching under a new, very cool name and brand: Mesh. Imagine something that joins you (me) to everyone you're connected to. It's going to be a very important layer of the distributed identity and social work we're doing. It's an amazing app you should try out if you haven't yet. Available on the web, MacOS, Windows, iOS, and even the Vision Pro. Stunning design.

Introducing Me.sh

Very excited to share that the Clay.earth team that joined Automattic last year is re-launching under a new, very cool name and brand: Mesh. Imagine something that joins you (me) to everyone you're connected to. It's going to be a very important layer of the distributed identity…

The second installment of dev/ai/nyc returns to our NoHo Space next Thursday, March 26. 🗽

Join @stephenwolfram.bsky.social and @ma.tt for a candid fireside chat on the agentic shift and what it means for creators and developers alike.

Not doing a full What’s In My Bag yet, but I do want to highlight I’ve been really enjoying the Sennheiser HDB 630 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones. Hat tip: Philip Kaplan aka Pud.

Not doing a full What’s In My Bag yet, but I do want to highlight I’ve been really enjoying the Sennheiser HDB 630 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones. Hat tip: Philip Kaplan aka Pud.

Selling Your Company I would like to offer some free business advice to people who are considering selling something they've created. First, if the buyer insists you don't talk to any other bidders, you are being screwed. They only do this because they don't want you to find the market-clearing price. Do you think when Microsoft called LinkedIn and said, "We want to buy you for $26B," and they replied, "Sure!

Selling Your Company

I would like to offer some free business advice to people who are considering selling something they've created. First, if the buyer insists you don't talk to any other bidders, you are being screwed. They only do this because they don't want you to find the market-clearing…

For a brief period, Tumblr was unavailable to the 115M+ people in the Philippines because the government had blocked it. To their credit, the Philippines CICC quickly reviewed and corrected their block after mass public outrage from the Filipino Tumblr community. Let the people tumble!

For a brief period, Tumblr was unavailable to the 115M+ people in the Philippines because the government had blocked it. To their credit, the Philippines CICC quickly reviewed and corrected their block after mass public outrage from the Filipino Tumblr community. Let the people tumble!

Popping Bottles With the rise of GLP-1 drugs, there’s a trend that magnums are being ordered at clubs to meet minimums but left unfinished. I think there’s a space for an ultra-high-end wellness drink at clubs. Imagine Erewhon meets Magic Mind meets Kin,  maybe with some effervescence. An elixir that comes out with sparklers but makes you feel great with nootropics not hungover.

Popping Bottles

With the rise of GLP-1 drugs, there’s a trend that magnums are being ordered at clubs to meet minimums but left unfinished. I think there’s a space for an ultra-high-end wellness drink at clubs. Imagine Erewhon meets Magic Mind meets Kin,  maybe with some effervescence. An elixir…

WordPress Everywhere As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation. For the past few decades, WordPress was software you got from a cloud provider or web host, such as…

WordPress Everywhere

As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital…

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

Gone (Almost) Phishin’ This is a little embarrassing to share, but I'd rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, and Mac all lit up with a message prompting me to reset my password. This came out of nowhere; I hadn't done anything to elicit it.

This is a little embarrassing to share, but I'd rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes.

One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, and Mac all lit up with a message prompting me to reset my password.

Declaration of the Independence Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. 30 years a 1 month later, it seems like an apt time to revisit John Perry Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.

Declaration of the Independence

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. 30 years…

Bar Gyu x Wapuu For the Japanese WordPress community, I have planted a special Wapuu at the coolest spot in Niseko, Bar Gyu, aka the refrigerator door bar.  Now on the handle you'll find a special surprise. Anyone recognize which WordCamp it's from? Ioanna and Hisashi run one of the coolest bars in the world; it's been on my bucket list to visit.

Bar Gyu x Wapuu

For the Japanese WordPress community, I have planted a special Wapuu at the coolest spot in Niseko, Bar Gyu, aka the refrigerator door bar.  Now on the handle you'll find a special surprise. Anyone recognize which WordCamp it's from? Ioanna and Hisashi run one of the coolest bars…

People are doing pretty interesting things with Emacs (now on version 30.2!) these days, if you haven’t checked in recently. The bleeding edge has always been people into Org Mode. Sacha Chua has hooked up Whisper to Emacs to talk to it. Emacs is probably one of the first and best examples of self-modifying software that contours to your brain. With vibe coding, we may get back to that space where everyone’s personal setup is like a crazy specific Emacs config file.

People are doing pretty interesting things with Emacs (now on version 30.2!) these days, if you haven’t checked in recently. The bleeding edge has always been people into Org Mode. Sacha Chua has hooked up Whisper to Emacs to talk to it.

Emacs is probably one of the first and best examples of…