Working on long-term futures at @Automattic, host of Wide Margins. Director emeritus @LongNow, @Interval & 10,000 Year Clock. More at https://xitter.cf/t.co/VEJMicLs3v
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Very excited to announce our new futures oriented speaking series at Automattic begins next week (Tues 10/13 9am Pacific) where I will be hosting author @nealstephenson for a wide ranging conversation on the occasion of his latest book D: Heavy Water!
Some ideas need more room.
Introducing Wide Margins, a new series from @wordpressdotcom for conversations with remarkable thinkers, writers, and creators shaping how we see the world.
Kicking things off is the one and only @nealstephenson! Details to follow!
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Today the PHP project released security updates addressing two critical "PHP2Shell" vulnerabilities.
If your site is hosted on @wordpressdotcom, @WordPressVIP, @wpcloudofficial, @Pressable, @tumblr, or any Automattic infrastructure, you’re already protected.
Managing PHP yourself? Here’s what to do: automattic.com/2026/10/21/yo…
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ICYMI: Author @nealstephenson joined @zander on Wide Margins, a series by @wordpressdotcom, to dig into his new novel D: Heavy Water yesterday.
Grab a coffee for this one and catch the replay: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1nJOLQZBA…
Happy to announce the launch of the new 100 Year website we built for the person who coined the term "personal computer' and co-created the first online community: @stewartbrand. It includes his entire ~50,000 photo archive that is now in the Public Domain stewartbrand.org/
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It’s almost like Open Source is the natural order of things. Those that embrace this law will, ultimately, be on the right side of history, bumpy as it may feel along the way.
Proprietary binaries are no longer a moat.
Solo devs running Claude Code with IDA Pro and Ghidra MCPs are decompiling 5-year AAA game engines and closed SaaS in weeks. Everything compiled on consumer hardware is becoming open source by default.
The game decomp wave:
• @rehan_shei decompiled MW2 & modding AoE: xitter.cf/rehan_shei/status/2106…
• @ammaar took a 1993 DOS binary to iPhone in 30 min: xitter.cf/ammaar/status/20654916…
• @profchise on Opus 5.5 porting console games: xitter.cf/profchise/status/21063…
The tooling making binary moats obsolete:
• @mrexodia running Claude directly inside IDA Pro via MCP: xitter.cf/mrexodia/status/190543…
• @bl4sty on automated decompiler loops: xitter.cf/bl4sty/status/19048434…
• @OrcaRouter reversing closed agent harnesses: xitter.cf/OrcaRouter/status/2105…
#AI #GameDev #ReverseEngineering #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering
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Some of the best conversations at @automattic happen internally. I’ve often wished more people could hear them.
Zander Rose’s interviews with people like Seth Godin are a great example.
So I’ve been working with @zander to bring these conversations to the WordPress.com YouTube channel.
Our first livestream guest? Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, joining us to talk about his new book, D: Heavy Water.
I’m thrilled we get to share this one.
Click ‘Notify me’ to join us 👇
youtube.com/live/kdw0QmlFTtA
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The WordPress Credits (WPCredits) program lets students earn academic credit by contributing to WordPress. The first feedback report, covering 242 students, shows the program works. The main challenge: getting started. Next steps include a school kit and tailored tracks by field of study. make.wordpress.org/project/?…
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Code for the People is coming to NYC.
On July 1, join us for a one-night-only preview screening at Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo, in partnership with @Variety.
Immediately following is a panel from director @baomnguyen and @photomatt, moderated by @xpangler.
One night only.
On July 1, Code for the People comes to NYC for a special preview event with @Variety. Following the screening is a panel with director @baomnguyen and @photomatt, moderated by Variety’s @xpangler.
We'd love for you to be the first to see it.
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The Quickest & Easiest Way to Connect Claude Cowork to WordPress 👇
1,000 likes. 12,000 views. 106 comments. In just a couple of days on YouTube.
Safe to say this video seems to have landed 😊
So, here it is:
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I've been so inspired by all the work at #radicalspeedmonth, and also all the work by the people keeping the lights on while 695 people at @automattic experimented. Lots of fun is in store. :)
So glad I've been putting a 1/4 of my paycheck into a system for my entire life that will go bust precisely when it is supposed to pay out. Thanks boomers.
Thanks for this nice write up by Dale at Make about my design for this years Burning Man. @EBMakerFaire @burningman open.substack.com/pub/makezi…
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Is the digital age robust or fragile? Join me wherever you get your podcasts as we talk with guest Alexander Rose (@zander) about long time scales.
eagleman.com/podcast/144
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there should be a drag act that is like "the straights of hormuz" except they are all super camp
This...
I’ve been building products for 10 years, and one thing I keep seeing is people saying, “I built a thing,” as if that’s the hard part.
It usually isn’t.
What makes the thing fly is everything around it: the hustle, positioning, distribution, iteration, listening, refining, and showing up again and again.
That’s also probably why they didn’t build it sooner. The product is only part of the job.
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WordPress now runs entirely in your browser. my.WordPress.net gives you a complete, private WordPress environment with no sign-up and no hosting plan needed. Everything stays on your device. You can use it to write, learn, experiment, or build with pre-configured apps like a personal CRM or RSS reader.
wp.me/pZhYe-59R
ALT Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress
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If society only tackles things that can be done quickly, what do we miss? And what does this have to do with the 10,000 Year Clock? Dive into millennia this week with guest Alexander Rose (@zander).
eagleman.com/podcast/144
This was such a fun conversation @davideagleman! Thanks for having me on.
New ep of Inner Cosmos drops at now o'clock: Part 2 of "How do things last?"
In this episode, we'll talk with Alexander Rose (@zander), emeritus director of the Long Now Foundation. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.
eagleman.com/podcast/144
I'm glad Anthropic held the line, but that we live in a world where it is up to DOD contractors to enforce basic morals and the laws against spying on our own citizens, there is a serious problem.
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Regional: Bay Bridge Artistic Light Installation Coming Back In March share.google/9my0lnMgh1BxFRS…
