Can't wait to hear more about the motivation, and how you did it.

Thanks for sharing!

Get some sleep. It will still be here tomorrow.

-- Note to self.

There is no real advantage to being able to dynamically pull in dependency updates. That use case is overweighted.

If you really feel like you need to get security patches for your dependencies, then you can subscribe to changelog or something, and manually update if needed.

The rapid and unquestioned adoption of single page web apps, for every use case on the web, warranted or not, has got to be the biggest mulligan we'd like to take in the history of the web.

Related: This is probably a good time to think about vendoring our dependencies. The arguments for package managers and dependency management are fading

htmx.org/essays/vendo...

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 t…

In his latest post criticizing the Cloudflare effort he wrote:

"Build from first principles. Make it better. Skate to where the puck is going."

I couldn't agree more!

ma.tt/2026/04/emda...

We need to be rebuilding our software from first principles now.

Burn the ships and start fresh.

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Matt Mullenweg has been pretty sensitive to any mention or criticism of WordPress in the tech world, and I guess I can't blame him for being defensive.

Matt Mullenweg had some feedback for the Cloudflare WordPress clone:

"Some day, there may be a spiritual successor to WordPress that is even more open. Until then, please keep the WordPress name out of your mouth."

Ouch.

More access to building software, coding or prompting, is always a good thing.

I really *hate* it when people try to gatekeep the newcomers. People did this to me when I got started, and as it turns out I was right about most of the crazy stuff I was trying to do.

I should have never listened.

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed W...

Cloudflare devs built something called EmDash: A vibe coded TypeScript clone of WordPress.

I don't think this is the thing that will replace WordPress, but something is coming soon.

blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordp...

We need more of this punk attitude.

OpenAI: The Fix Is In An update to More Magic Math from OpenAI The final mad dash to IPO is on for the big AI companies. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all made their intentions clear. And nothing could be more obvi…

The circular financing scheme going on in AI right now is bonkers. This has to be leading to a "dot com" style market crash, right?

om.co/2026/03/31/o...

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Mit Press) Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Mit Press) [Mindell, David A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (Mit Press)

Check out the book *Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight*.

It chronicles the software and automated systems which made the Apollo missions a success and discusses the tradeoffs and decisions leading to the human-in-the-loop philosophy in space flight.

www.amazon.com/Digital-Apol...

School teachers and classmates look on as a student works with the first Macintosh Computer from Apple.

I'm not sure if it was intentional to feature Alan Kay in this photo marking the 50th birthday of Apple. But it sure seems appropriate.

Alan Kay was not a founder of Apple or a school teacher, he is , the inventor of Smalltalk and most of Object Oriented Programming.

For sure, yeah. That's what he wrote. But he's not justifying more AI.

AI has gone past the point of needing justification. I don't see anywhere in his writing that there is a need to justify it.

We are seeing a big shift from software engineers to vendor dependencies, often building them from scratch, picking only the functionality needed for the end product.

This shift could make software much less vulnerable to stuff like the axios NPM attack.

htmx.org/essays/vendo...

I didn't read that newsletter as every AI harm justifies more AI. We don't need to justify AI; it is more than a useful tool, it is fundamentally changing computing, so it is being adopted for those reasons.

I really think we can build our own dependencies now, which is a game changer.

I've seen and felt variations of this a lot lately.

"If your life isn’t structured around optimization and efficiency everyone thinks you’re useless. But that’s exactly what creativity demands. Useless wandering."

This one from Dan Koe

"Waiting for clarity is waiting for crushing irrelevance.

Try things. Learn. Iterate.

These are exciting times to be building."

- Dharmesh Shah

Robots in the Garden A different way to think about your PKM system — and roles AI can play in it.

Really great ideas here from Jorge Arango on using AI chat tools for research, learning, and deep thinking.

Perfect long read for the weekend.

#weekendread

jarango.com/2026/03/27/r...

Love it!

> Once these files are in place you can enable the service -- see the systemd documentation or ask your favorite LLM for details.

My Last Day at Disney Today was my last day working at Disney. It was a wild ride, but what's next?

Why I left the Walt Disney Company

www.kriswalker.me/essays/last-...

The subagent workflow is sic.

I've had some big features I've been working on, pushing the limits of the models and context windows.

But, if I have an agent take the role of product manager and lead developer, it will happily farm out the work to subagents playing the role of software engineer.

Subagent: Implementation Executor Subagent: Implementation Executor. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

My Implementation Executor subagent (Claude named it, not me.)

gist.github.com/kixxauth/7cb...

Migrating Feld Thoughts from WordPress to Hugo How I migrated Feld Thoughts - 5,530 blog posts spanning 22 years - from WordPress to Hugo using Claude Code, and what I learned along the way.

Most publishers don’t need and don’t want the complexity of Wordpress anymore.

feld.com/archives/202...

Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw A gentle introduction to the Pi coding agent and why I think it’s a glimpse into the future of software.

pi is a tiny little coding agent with no assumptions about what you're trying to build or how it should be built. It's the little engine in OpenClaw fwiw

So refreshing! Thanks for sharing this @mitsuhiko.at

lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

Tech Bros are sad that they are losing to AI, so they are clinging to "taste"?

That might be true, for some, but I generally disagree.

If you're building something you want other people to use, then having good taste is going to be a really important differentiator in the market.

Can we agree that we are past AI driven tab completion in code editors now?

So annoying.

This might be the last trip around the sun for Wordpress.

It means you developed one helluva system.