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Jonathan and Luke catch up with Lesley Sim to explore her experience creating products in the WordPress ecosystem, starting with Newsletter Glue, and now EventKoi. They discuss her and Ahmed’s approach to building EventKoi as an ecosystem plugin and their thinking about early decisions. Luke reflects on what he found inspiring about their approach to design and Jonathan asks questions about their plans for growing the EventKoi ecosystem. Ultimate Frisbee is also discussed.

Special guest David Smith returns to the show for a developer’s perspective look at WWDC 2025.

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There are several good segments in today’s interview with Matt Mullenweg. My favorite might be the exchange with Nilay Patel around whether Tumblr is profitable yet. It actually lines up well with my post from last year, I support the mad king.

Nilay: Is Tumblr sustainable today?

Matt: It is still not profitable. So we’re still supporting it and subsidizing it with our other products at Automattic.

Nilay: How much runway do you want to give it?

Matt: Everything. [laughing] Obviously we’ve invested a ton in Tumblr. I’m a believer in its future. So that’s part of why I want to make it sustainable, because that means it doesn’t have to go off the benevolence of myself or anyone else. It can stand on its own.

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The Senate is voting on President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, which includes tax cuts for a broad swath of Americans. But who stands to benefit most?

In honor of Automattic’s 20th anniversary, and also since it’s been a few years, I joined Nilay Patel the editor-in-chief of The Verge on their Decoder Podcast. We talked about Tumblr and the Fediverse, how Automattic thinks about Ecosystem and Cosmos sides of the business, Automattic’s re-organization into cross-business functional teams and leadership, the vision … Continue reading Back on The Verge →

The WNBA announced on Monday that it will expand to 18 teams by 2030, adding franchises in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. By the end of this transformative round of expansion, the league will have added six teams in six years. The Golden State Valkyries joined the WNBA...

The US Justice Department revealed the identity theft number along with one arrest and a crackdown on “laptop farms” that allegedly facilitate North Korean tech worker impersonators across the US.

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we hear directly from Sahil Lavingia, who published a tell-all blog post about his 55-day stint at DOGE.

GitOps is critical for ensuring consistency, reliability and auditability in modern infrastructure management. By treating infrastructure changes as code, GitOps

The post GitOps in the Real World: Barriers and Best Practices appeared first on The New Stack.

Huge news from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. Apple is considering partnering with Anthropic or OpenAI for Siri:

After multiple rounds of testing, Rockwell and other executives concluded that Anthropic’s technology is most promising for Siri’s needs, the people said. That led Adrian Perica, the company’s vice president of corporate development, to start discussions with Anthropic about using Claude, the people said.

This is probably the right move, and there’s still plenty for in-house AI researches to work on. If they go ahead with it, delaying Siri was justified, and worth taking the heat for.

A pedestrian “safety island” Enjoy lounging on this six-foot urban oasis of grass, cement, and paper plates stained with sunset-hued pizza grease. The line outside Clinton Street Baking Company Instead of standing for forty-five minutes in the sun, why not sit? Just rememb...

CM Punk ruled as the coolest guy in North American professional wrestling in a few different eras. An indie firebrand in the first half of the 2000s, the straight-edge icon signed with WWE in 2005 and built himself into an avatar for fans frustrated by the company's de facto...

Every year since I blogged about fixing exclusive app distribution way back in 2011, there have been little cracks appearing in Apple’s monopoly wall. Growing developer resentment. The lawsuit from Epic Games. New laws like the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Change is clearly acc...

At their core, Large Language Models are advanced AI systems designed to understand, generate, and work with human language in a

The post Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) appeared first on The New Stack.

Nicholas Wu, Politico congressional reporter, talks about the latest national political news, including the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" Congress is aiming to pass by July 4th as Congress begins its "vote-a-rama."

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After a poaching frenzy that's brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

Advice from a longtime developer. If you think "I should do a backup," do it. Now, don't wait. Make it really easy to do a backup. Choose a menu item that's always available when you're working. The reason is karma. God hears all your thoughts. When that thought pops int...

If the Dems were competitive they would run ads now with Senator Tillis talking about the damage the new Repub bill will do to Americans, emphasizing this is a Republican speaking, taking one for the country.

Project Hail Mary trailer is out! Loved the book. Perfect choice of directors for the movie, I think they’ve got this.