Me.sh on Android
TechCrunch on how Me.sh (née Clay) is now available on Android. Also, kudos to those other Clay folks for winning the Clay memetic namespace dominance.
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Beeper Merge
Beeper has some fun new features where you can merge chats with the same person across multiple networks, polls, labels Very exciting work happening on that product.
OmFest Registration
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest. We re still working out some details, but we ve got a Luma registration page for the event up. Please join on September 29, 2026, Om s 60th birth anniversary, for an eclectic conference curated by his different communities to celebrate the many facets of Om. If you re Continue reading OmFest Registration
Super-organized
I have so many tools for organization and management across Asana, Google Workspace, P2, and Linear, but they re not really connected. I m trying to get everything in one place so there s no data duplication, a single source of truth, and everything is always linked and accessible. It feels good, like spring cleaning, to go through Continue reading Super-organized
Toni on Verge
Toni Schneider, Automattic s founding CEO, board member, and now CEO of Bluesky, has a great conversation with Nilay Patel on The Verge s Decoder podcast (YouTube, Pocket Casts). Automattic invested in Bluesky back in 2023, and I m very excited to see what they figure out in open social protocols.
Our Core Division
Inspired by Automatticians James Kemp and Dave Smith, I ve been thinking a lot about how much of our discord in the design of WordPress stems from the differences of our two big tribes: Bloggers and Builders. Many of the OG developers of WordPress, including myself, tend more towards the blogging side. Writers, photographers, podcasters, journalists, Continue reading Our Core Division
AutoMattBot
I m trying out this thing, it s trained on my blog posts and public talks, that you can chat with as me on Telegram. Behold: AutoMattBot. Update: This is powered by Delphi.ai and it appears very broken right now, people are sending messages and on my side it looks like it s responding but they re not seeing Continue reading AutoMattBot
Michel the GOAT
I don t usually blog all my comments other places, but while drafting a completely different blog post I came across this great post, Michel Valdrighi: The Coder Whose Code Never Went Silent. I had to leave a comment, because Michel s story is not well-known. Michel Valdrighi is the GOAT. His elegant code and impeccable aesthetic Continue reading Michel the GOAT
Gabriel Dawe
New artist I m obsessed with: Gabriel Dawe. I love the colors and craft, very Mesh. If his site were on WordPress, we d definitely commission some pieces. Hat tip: Jason Nichols.
Tesla Spyware
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
Possible Futures of Happiness
At Automattic, we don t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers. 🙂 There s also a #ceo Slack channel where anyone can drop in and request a meeting, which my esteemed colleague Damianne President did, and this morning we had an interesting chat that set my mind racing about how we might engineer happiness Continue reading Possible Futures of Happiness
Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui
I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is the pianist who played on my senior recital, and Ryo Fukui is the pianist I discovered from the visit Continue reading Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui
How ISO Works
Inspired by Om I ve been getting back into my DSLR photography. I learned a lot about how ISO settings work from this delightful physics YouTube channel MinutePhysics.
AI Slop
If you re going to give me AI slop, at least make it fun! Give me iambic pentameter. Make it all rhyme. Have it be a song. I think we re under-utilizing the artistic and creative capabilities of models by making them produce work that sort-of-but-not-really looks like human effort.
Important Security Update
WordPress 7.0.2 went out today with two important security updates. One is a type of pre-authorization RCE we (fortunately!) have only seen a few times in WordPress 23-year history; the last, I believe, in the PHPMailer class five years ago. Major kudos to Adam Kues of Searchlight Cyber for finding the batch REST API RCE, Continue reading Important Security Update
Code for the People
Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week. I m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com! Appearances Continue reading Code for the People
USA 250
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it is certainly Continue reading USA 250
Om Links
There has been a lot of excitement about the OmFest idea. If you d like to attend or contribute, please fill out this form as soon as possible so we can gauge the type of venue we need. Update: ThankYouOm.com from Michael Galpert pulls together all the tweets, Instagram posts, and blog posts into a beautiful Continue reading Om Links
All Roads Lead to Om
Yesterday, my best friend and brother from another mother, Om Malik, passed away. They say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker than blood. — Bob Weir Om s request was for a small family prayer ceremony. In mourning, that will be all there is. In celebration and tribute, I Continue reading All Roads Lead to Om
No Bubble
A throwback from 2007: a local Bay Area a cappella group called The Richter Scales made a Webby Award-winning viral video about how that bubble felt. Hat tip: Toni.
Hill For A Stepper
In honor of Father s Day, I wanted to add to the two quotes from my Dad s obituary, Seven days without chicken made one weak.” and “If you fail at raising your children, nothing else mattered.” with another saying he had. Ain t no hill for a stepper. If you d like to learn more about this, check Continue reading Hill For A Stepper
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.
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 Continue reading Best Trash
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 Continue reading Midjourney Medical
Audio Wars
It looks like Ubiquiti is coming for Sonos with its PoE Audio Port, a $199 device that closely resembles the $499 Sonos Port, and $599 PowerAmp. Sonos is going up-market with the Amp Multi. Sonos has had a rough patch, but I m pretty ride or die for them, and some of my favorite people are Continue reading Audio Wars