Bay Lights Return, Shining Brighter Than Ever
So happy to see the Bay Lights back, great work by leo_villareal and @illuminatethearts. Somehow, this new version is even more beautiful than the last one.
New Headphones
Matt’s latest post spotlights the Sennheiser HDB 630 Wireless Over‑Ear Headphones, praising their sound quality and comfort. He links directly to the Amazon listing and credits Philip Kaplan for the tip. The entry sits among a series of related headphone...
Selling Your Company
The article advises founders selling a company to avoid exclusive negotiations and instead generate a competitive bidding environment. It recommends leveraging investment banks or directly contacting potential acquirers to discover market‑clearing prices. The piece cites examples like Microsoft’s LinkedIn deal...
Popping Bottles
The post notes that GLP‑1 drugs are causing clubgoers to drink less, leaving large magnum bottles unfinished. It highlights a gap where clubs order oversized drinks to meet minimum spend thresholds but waste product. The author proposes an ultra‑high‑end wellness...
Gone (Almost) Phishin’
A sophisticated phishing campaign targeted an Apple user by triggering legitimate password‑reset prompts across an iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch. The attackers then opened a real Apple Support case, receiving authentic Apple‑signed emails that bypassed all filters. They followed up...
WordPress, AI, Plugins, Future of Software Engineering
The post outlines how AI is reshaping the WordPress ecosystem, from a flood of AI‑generated plugins that introduce new security risks to the need for large‑scale audit infrastructure. It advises agencies to pivot from billable hours to outcome‑based pricing, leveraging...
Beeper & Day One
Beeper, the all‑in‑one messaging hub, rolled out a September update that adds Google Voice, on‑device LinkedIn, Instagram typing indicators, and full Telegram custom‑emoji support. The company also unveiled its premium model built on local bridge technology, highlighted at an Automattic‑hosted...
Wolfram Automattica
Stephen Wolfram has joined Automattic as a special advisor, bringing his computational expertise to the WordPress ecosystem. Wolfram, known for the Wolfram Language and the knowledge engine behind Wolfram|Alpha, has been engaging with Automattic teams since early 2024. The partnership...
Cloudflare CMS Stats
Cloudflare’s Radar 2025 report examined the top 5,000 domains to map CMS usage. WordPress leads the open‑source segment with a 47 % share, while Drupal lags at 4.7 %. In the proprietary arena, Adobe Experience Manager accounts for 16 %, Contentful 8 %, and...
Dries OSS
The post clarifies that DHH’s Fizzy is source‑available, not open source, because the company retains SaaS rights to sustain its business model. Dries Buytaert expands on this distinction, arguing that source‑available licensing is acceptable even if it falls short of...
DHH & Open Source
Basecamp’s new product Fizzy is marketed as open source, but it is released under the O’Saasy license, which prohibits downstream users from offering the software as a SaaS product. The license’s SaaS‑restriction violates OSI’s rule that open‑source licenses must not...
Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic is collaborating with the Internet Archive to launch a WordPress plugin that automatically redirects users to archived versions of pages that have gone offline, mitigating link rot. The tool detects broken links, fetches a snapshot from the Wayback Machine,...
New Woo
WooCommerce 10.3 was released ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, introducing checkout improvements, built-in tracking for cost of goods sold, and a beta MCP server that lets AI assistants (like Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP-compatible clients) interact directly with...