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Our new monthly AI-focused gathering, dev/ai/nyc, kicks off tomorrow! 🎉🗽 We’re packing our NoHo Space with AI’s brightest minds and boldest tinkerers. We've got a talk from John Borthwick (betaworks founder and CEO) and Matt Mullenweg (Automattic CEO and WordPress co-founder). Plus, drinks, light bites, and great conversation. It’s free and tickets are flying (no joke!). Will we see you there? Tickets: https://luma.com/fy86k4w5

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Blocktober Wraps Up as Telex Inspires a Wave of WordPress Experimentation

Mark your calendars for our new monthly AI-focused gathering, dev/ai/nyc! This can’t-miss event series brings together leaders, technologists, creators, and boundary-pushers in the applied AI space. On Wednesday, November 5, join us for a talk from John Borthwick (betaworks founder and CEO) and Matt Mullenweg (Automattic CEO and WordPress co-founder). Plus, drinks, light bites, and great conversation. We can’t wait to explore the future of the open web and human-centered AI. The inaugural event is going to be major, and tickets are going fast! 👇 Grab your spot now: https://luma.com/fy86k4w5

At Day One, we’re continuing to expand what journaling can mean in the modern world. Our latest release introduces a Strava integration that automatically imports your workouts as journal entries, bringing together fitness and personal reflections in one secure place. Now you can: • Import your full Strava activity history automatically. • Add titles, descriptions, stats, and notes from Strava to each entry. • See weather and location data for context. • Explore interactive route maps in each entry. • Sync new activities automatically as you record them in Strava. Try it out in version 2025.22 for iPhone and iPad: https://lnkd.in/gT5gERkY

If listening to five hours of podcasts every day doesn’t qualify you as an expert, we don’t know what does. That’s why we trust Arielle Nissenblatt, founder of EarBuds Podcast Collective, when she says Pocket Casts is her go-to app. 🎧 See how Arielle listens, organizes, and discovers her favorite shows with Pocket Casts to stay on top of her podcast game and read more at https://lnkd.in/d53SX_Vy

What keeps a brilliant editor like Cheri Lucas Rowlands coming back to a job, day after day, for over 13 years? Watch our latest video to hear from Cheri herself about what makes this place special. If her story resonates with you, take a peek at our open roles—we’re hiring! 👀 https://lnkd.in/gKbBfvA #fullydistributed #automattic

Today, Automattic filed counterclaims against WP Engine to defend the WordPress community and the integrity of open source. For more than 20 years, WordPress has been built on collaboration and shared responsibility. That spirit has helped create software that now powers tens of millions of websites. But open source only thrives when everyone contributes in good faith. Read more about our case here: https://lnkd.in/gC_c2h7w

Today’s AWS outage is affecting a large part of the web, but not us. WordPress.com and WordPress VIP run on our own globally distributed infrastructure, not AWS or any other third-party cloud. It’s one of the ways we make sure your site stays up, no matter what’s happening elsewhere on the internet. 💪

Open source collaboration and storytelling innovation once defined a golden era of digital journalism. Tools like DocumentCloud, D3, and Django emerged from newsrooms and were built, shared, and used to elevate the whole industry. But since 2017, open source activity in journalism has dropped by 86%, and the collaborative spirit is fading. We’re convinced there’s a way back. Join our Publisher Advocate, Scott Klein, and News Applications Editor at Reuters, Ben Welsh, at the News Product Alliance Summit this week for a panel where they’ll: 🪞 Reflect on what made that earlier era succeed 📊 Present fresh data and stories from contributors to open source culture ✏️ Invite participants (from editorial, product, tech) to co-design a roadmap to restore collaboration This isn’t about longing for the past — it’s about forging the future. Let’s re-establish an ecosystem where open source innovation is central to how journalism builds and shares. See the full list of sessions at NPA Summit here: https://lnkd.in/dV9VgATE