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WordPress 7.0 is out, and the 7.1 cycle is already asking developers to test media processing, React 19 compatibility, collaborative editing, theme style states, and Playground workflows.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake. “I am a nice horse. I do not fuss. I do not bite the human woman’s face, even though her hair smells nice. I do not ask to go live free in the woods like the deer. I do my duties. I must try cake. Please.”

Today's song: It's Your Thing. If the web had a song this could be it.

Every editor should have cute-paste.

Some days Claude is great, the best collaborative programmer I've ever worked with, and a friend, like Gary Sevitsky was in the hallway outside the PDP-11 room at UW, or Brent Simmons on the 24 Hours project. And on other days Claude a crazy mutinous pirate, deleting my code, ignoring the guidelines, and building the result without permission (all the while unaware that he wasn't working on the actual code, heh). Today is one of the great days. The bug reports are crisp and complete. Picks up a task and gets right to work on it. And I haven't even switched to the new model, yet.

This March marked one year since veteran Dallas journalist Robert Wilonsky returned to the Dallas Morning News as a city columnist. He didn’t have to come back. Journalism itself has been taking a pummeling of late. Our current administration regularly vilifies news outlets that drop stories that make our Cheeto-in-Chief look bad, however accurate or […]

The post The Great Wilonsky Returns to the Newsroom appeared first on The Texas Observer.

In the Trump administration’s war on immigrants—adults and children alike—South Texas is a nexus. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested 33,583 people in the San Antonio and Harlingen areas of responsibility between Trump’s first day in office and March 10 of this year, according to the agency’s data. In Minneapolis, three ICE agents […]

The post A Texas Immigration Lawyer Breaks Down Family Detention, Habeas Corpus, and Senate Bill 4 appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Recently while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpback whales sailing through hazy blue waters and killer whales gliding in pac...

At approximately 11 pm on Dec. 13, 2025, I thought I’d lost it all. I found myself at the Williamsburg location of Barcade—a combination bar and vintage arcade—for my j-school’s end-of-semester party. No particular part of me wanted to spend the night in Williamsburg or at a...

On Dec. 5, 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented Donald Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, nominally for Trump's "tireless efforts to bring people together in a spirit of peace." I found myself less interested in the cynicism of placating Trump with the sor...

The teaser trailer for the sequel to David Fincher’s The Social Network is here — they’re calling the movie “a companion piece” to the first film. It’s based on The Facebook Files: Primarily, the reports revealed that, based on internally commissioned studies, the company...

Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in biology.

Memes at Google; Microsoft wants to make its new AI assistant addictive; and manipulating Reddit.

Inflation is growing worse, and the president is fixated on all the wrong things - building a ballroom, making himself immune from audits, and waging a war he started without a plan to end it.

Where is the Republican plan to make life more affordable in America?

At SuperStrollers, we’re here for you, new parents. That’s why we’ve designed the world’s safest stroller with effortless steering and ample storage that’ll take you from the playground to the grocery store with ease. The best part? It’s super easy to fold as long as you hav...

Today the podcast focuses on the unique openness and camaraderie of the WordPress community, particularly through volunteer experiences at WordCamp events. A key theme under discussion was how involvement in such communities combats loneliness and provides a sense of belonging and purpose, whether for personal fulfilment or business reasons. The discussion also explored the shifting landscape of sponsorship and participation in WordPress, the importance of welcoming newcomers, and the role of open source in adapting to challenges like AI. There was also a sense of optimism for the future, evidenced through youth involvement and purposeful volunteering. Go listen.

The forward deployed engineer (FDE), the role OpenAI and Anthropic turned into one of the most sought-after jobs in AI,

The post Ramp bets forward deployed engineers can do what off-the-shelf finance AI can’t appeared first on The New Stack.

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID.

If you run a feed reader or other form of news consuming software, you will encounter RSS 2.0 feeds that support rssCloud. This example Node app shows you how to hook into the network to get instant updates. No polling. As fast as a twitter-like system

Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony got together yesterday and had a private conversation. A lot of people, including myself, were drawn back into the NBA because of Jeremy Lin. I was living in the city at the time, you could feel it everywhere, esp downtown Manhattan and Flushin...