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I'm going to add a command to WordLand that lets you quickly edit the text of the current post in Markdown. So if you you can quickly change the URL on a link. Or just see what you got when you pasted some text into the document. The thing I don't want to do is a full-blown Markdown editor. I want to do that too at some point, or leave the door open for other developers to do it. I'm not trying to own the market for nice editors for WordPress, I just want to open the market. And along the way I'm going to do a bunch of marketing for WordPress that it really needs. I hope Matt and company appreciate this. WordPress needs, imho, a kind of love and support that honestly it hasn't been getting.

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6 Best Android Tablets (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Forget the iPad. Catch up on your favorite shows in bed with one of these Android-powered slates.

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I should do this more often, spelunking around an old server that's just sitting there. I was wondering why my posts to my linkblog feed were going to Mastodon, since I only post them to Bluesky in my new software. I just found out. I have an app running on this server called FeedToMasto, which apparently is watching that feed. It's been chugging away like an abandoned science fiction robot, seeing if I posted anything to my linkblog, and forwarding it to Mastodon if I have. Hello my robot friend, you were forgotten but still appreciated. It's open source, of course, and appears to be well-documented. If you're looking for example code that reads feeds and pushed the result to interesting places, this is for you.

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I was poking around on an old server, and found a domain that looked interesting, and it was. The first version of Daytona, built around an outliner. I got the impression people didn't like it, so I developed a new one using a more conventional approach, and I love that one too, and I did a better job the second time. But it's interesting to poke around the old one as well, and it still works, which is great to see. In an alternate universe in the year 2025 the whole human species is organized by one big outline that everyone contributes to in peace, love and harmony, as opposed to this one which grunts and snorts on Twitter and can't even put a freaking title on their posts.

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Our Favorite Bottle Washers for Keeping Your Baby Bottles Safe and Clean (2025)

Keeping baby bottles clean and sterilized is a chore. We tested automatic bottle washers to see if they're worth buying.

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This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best

Certified kitchen knife nerd Scott Heimendinger used a robot arm on multiple chef’s knives to collect 100,000 data points about which blades cut most efficiently. He’s ranked them from best to worst.

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The Blue Place

Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.

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Do You Need a Box Spring for Your Modern-Day Mattress? (2025)

If you haven’t seen a box spring in a while, it’s not your imagination—a mattress expert breaks down when you might need this dinosaur of the sleep world.

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The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

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Did the Texas Floods Have to Be This Deadly?

A little over a week after the devastating floods in Central Texas, the death toll has reached more than 130 people — and the search for the missing continues. In the aftermath of the disaster, there have been mounting questions about how local officials handled the critical...

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Rethinking Global Remote Work Opportunities in Open Source

Remote work has been a defining feature of tech culture for years, but it has become especially prominent in open source communities. As more professionals build careers within globally distributed teams, the conversation around cross-border employment has grown more relevant than ever. One insight that stands out is the potential for developers and digital professionals […]

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Tucker Carlson’s Harsh Takedown of Trump on Epstein Ignites MAGA Fury

The MAGA movement has been in full meltdown ever since President Trump’s Department of Justice concluded they have no evidence that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a client list or was murdered in jail. This contradicted a major MAGA conspiracy theory, and MAGA i...

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NZXT Discount Codes: 50% Off

Save 50%, plus up to $250 with NZXT promo codes and discounts.

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Lee Elia, Former Major League Manager, Dies at 87

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Steve Berman, The Athletic: Lee Elia, who managed the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs for two seasons apiece but is perhaps best known for a profane postgame rant critical of Chicago fans, died on Wednesday. He was 87. The Phillies announced his death in a stateme...

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‘Elon Musk Gives Himself Another Handshake’

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Nick Heer, Pixel Envy on the news that SpaceX “invested” $2 billion in the xAI money pit: This comes just a few months after xAI acquired X, one year after Musk shifted a bunch of Tesla-bound Nvidia GPUs to xAI, and just a few years after he used staff from Tesla to work...

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Unsolved Physics Problems

'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??

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Trunk & Tidbits, June 2025

It was another busy month in June, as we moved into the final stretch of the 4.4 release process. We also covered a lot of events during the month. Here’s what was happening. Team We welcomed Imani to the team, as our new designer. Very excited to have Imani join us! We also...

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Mad Kings

Jonathan and Luke discuss DHH’s recent comments about Matt and their own experiences with gaslighting. They also re-explore their consternation with Matt’s “inclusivity” in his decision making. Luke talks about his work on the recently renamed Plugins Team and Jonathan expresses his discomfort with the lack of clear commercial incentives.