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Co-founder WordPress; CEO Automattic; always learning.

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Patricia from Geneva: What about multilingual?

बहुभाषी डेटा संरचनाएं इतनी कष्टकारी हैं कि शायद वास्तविक समय एआई अनुवाद को सभी के लिए दूर कर देना ही बेहतर होगा। मैं हाथ से ऐसा करने के सभी कारण जानता हूं, लेकिन मुझे लगता है कि दुनिया के अधिकांश लोगों को अब इसकी परवाह नहीं है, और यह कुछ वर्षों में पूरा हो जाएगा।

Les structures de données multilingues sont tellement pénibles qu'il est peut-être préférable de laisser la traduction par l'IA en temps réel faire disparaître cela pour tout le monde. Je connais toutes les raisons de le faire à la main, mais je pense que la plupart des gens dans le monde ne s'en soucient plus, et ce sera terminé dans quelques années.

Die Datenstrukturen der Mehrsprachigkeit sind so lästig, dass es vielleicht besser ist, die Echtzeit-KI-Übersetzung dafür zu sorgen, dass dies für alle verschwindet. Ich kenne alle Gründe, dies von Hand zu tun, aber ich denke, den meisten Menschen auf der Welt ist das egal, und das wird in ein paar Jahren abgeschlossen sein.

Le strutture dati del multilingue sono una tale seccatura, forse è meglio lasciare che la traduzione dell'intelligenza artificiale in tempo reale faccia sparire tutto questo per tutti. Conosco tutte le ragioni per farlo manualmente, ma penso che alla maggior parte del mondo non interessi più, e questo sarà completo in pochi anni.

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Question: Where are the young people?

First, my brother, you're 25! You're a young person, to me at least now. :)

I actually don't care about the age of the people getting involved with WordPress, you can be crufty and resistant to change at any age.

What I want are those that are young at heart, at any age.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Look at the energy Dave Winer is bringing to WordPress at 71. Can't wait to see his talk at WCUS. We're all learning. Maybe we'll get him to install an SSL certificate on scripting.com. ;)

(I'm live-blogging the WCEU livestream.)

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7.0 favorite things

A few of my favorite things in WordPress 7.0: Contributions picked back up and set new high-water marks. The command palette is great for power users and agents. PHP block registration, finally. We unfroze wp-admin with dozens of design tweaks, view transitions, and visual revisions. There’s a lot more to do, but it’s feeling much nicer. I'm excited to revisit our core screen and settings in the coming releases.

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WCEU

Cześć wszystkim, Kraków… I made the call not to fly to Poland for WordCamp Europe. I’m very for the last-minute notice; I was really hoping to make it. I’m okay, but I want to stay close to loved ones going through difficult times. Seeing the pictures from Contributor Day warms my heart. Bardzo za Wami tęsknię. I miss you dearly. The Protect The Shire post on W.org contains what I planned to…

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Bee Champion Spelling bees have gotten a lot more intense. How many of these do you know? torrone, enthymeme, iguape, Denebola, fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, monadnock, émeute, nannofossil, tongkang, Natchitoches, flaith, semele, rusell, sawder, campernelle, Nicol, Zamenis, Tharparkar, tlachtli, madoqua, retiarius, balintawak, tessaraconter, taurokathapsia, rapakivi, uayeb, paroemia, melengket, teraglin, homelyn, chikungunya, bromocriptine (cashaw)...

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Maybe

I think I heard this parable somewhere in the 14 hours of Alan Watts lectures someone recommended to me in 2017, but here’s a beautiful 2-minute version I’d love to share for everyone going through something. I really appreciate the love and support I received after the WP23 post, and I do want to tell people I’m okay, the post was part catharsis and part giving voice to what I see and hear…

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RIP Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with Sonny Stitt and Dizzy Gillespie. WordPress 6.7 in November 2024 was named in honor of Rollins. We rarely choose a…

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the heart of the sun

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UNSINGLE Book Launch Party at Tumblr HQ in NoHo, NYC!

Album 1, Photography by May Do and Sydney Shaw

Attend the next UNSINGLE event: https://missamychan.com/events/

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“Github Major Service Outage”

Georges Seurat, 1884

Oil on canvas

(collaboration from @raynola )

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We meant it. Let's work together

This place matters, and our goal is to keep Tumblr thriving for a long time. That means Tumblr has to keep evolving. There are things we know could be better. You probably have a list too. Some of it will be easy to fix. Some won't. That's exactly why we want to work with you.

The Tumblr User Panel will be a group of people on Tumblr who'll work with us over time to give feedback on how this place works today and where it's going. We know we have to earn your trust, and we want to change how we build features and include you more in the process. We’re looking forward to shaping this together.

If you're interested in joining: https://tumblr.survey.fm/tumblr-user-panel-interest-survey 

Here's what you probably want to know:

Why a panel instead of just listening to everyone?

We won’t stop reading tags, comments, reblogs, and support tickets, but a panel helps us paint a more complete picture before we build, and go deeper than a reblog thread allows.

Who are you looking for?

A mix of experience levels, devices, countries, posting habits. People who've been here a decade and people who showed up last month. 

Will everyone who fills out the survey get in?

No. We're keeping it small enough to have real conversations. If you're not selected, it's because we're balancing across a lot of dimensions, not because your response wasn't good enough. We may expand or rotate members over time.

Will critical feedback affect my account?

No! We want your feedback and criticism, and that will never result in any action against your account. 

Can I leave?

Whenever you want. No penalties. 

Questions before filling out the survey? Leave a comment. 

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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.

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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.

Turn Every Page

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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.

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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, Matías.) First, I’m going to…

EmDash Feedback

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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. Every time I made a new post, it irked me a…

Taxonomist