Open Channels FM: More Code, More Problems? What AI-Generated Software Means for Us
AI tools have simplified app creation, enabling rapid prototyping. However, the challenge now lies in discerning which ideas are genuinely valuable to users. As anyone can create apps quickly, the focus should shift from mere production to understanding user needs and ensuring the apps solve real problems to avoid mediocrity.
Donncha: Travel Steps is a travel journal
I made a WordPress plugin for my holidays. It’s called Travel Steps, and it turns a trip into a page with a map down one side and the story of each day down the other. Every photo I take ends up in Immich, on my own server. My phone sends where I’ve been to Dawarich, […]
WordCamp Central: WordPress Campus Connect Ahmad Education, Dhaka 2026
The Truly Meaning moment in this event Campus Connect Event Successfully Completed! We are pleased to share that the Campus Connect event, held on Thursday, October 1st, was successfully completed with the participation of students from Ahmad’s Education. Ahmad’s Education has already collaborated with WordPress and successfully completed two batches. This event was another valuable […]
Open Channels FM: Why Fast AI Inference Is a Game Changer for Developers
In tech, speed can make all the difference. One topic that doesn’t get enough attention is just how much faster AI inference is changing the way developers work. Training AI models still grabs the headlines with all the talk about big clusters and huge data sets, but the real impact for most developers happens when […]
Dennis Snell: Radical explorations in agentic development
In mid-April 2026 my employer started a project called “Radical Speed Month” to step away from our existing structures and processes, make space for people to dive more deeply into AI tooling, and try to build new or sleeping ideas. My participation in this experiment ran until late September and I stacked up a lot […]
Matt: Anthropic Employment
How employment is changing at Anthropic is a fascinating read.
Open Channels FM: Open Web vs Walled Gardens, Simplifying the Difference
A straightforward look at what the open web is, how it started, and why it matters for digital communities.
Matt: Pushing Standards
We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever since I caught the religion from Zeldman, promoting more functionality in the browser has been a life mission. […]
WordCamp Central: WordCamp Jinja 2026 Recap: Three Tracks, Two Days and Creative Currents on the Nile
On 19th and 20th September 2026, the WordPress community gathered at Civil Service College Uganda, a venue close to River Nile, for the fifth edition of WordCamp Jinja. The event brought together more than 300 diverse participants across 2 days and 3 parallel tracks of sessions full of learning, collaboration and connection. In a city […]
bbPress: bbPress 2.6.20 is out!
bbPress 2.6.20 is a security and maintenance release. Everyone running bbPress should update. This release strengthens topic and reply password validation and keeps bbPress post shortcodes literal in ordinary WordPress content loops. It also adds a site-wide Forum Status setting with Open, Closed, and Frozen modes. Existing sites remain Open unless that setting is changed. […]