We made it to Times Square! 🤩 We're so proud to be on the 2023 The Cloud 100 list of the top 100 biggest private ☁️ companies in the world. Thank you for the recognition Forbes Bessemer Salesforce Ventures. forbes.com/lists/cloud100 #Cloud100

Hi, we’re Jetpack. Nice to (re)meet you.

Opening your inbox to find emails like this is a great way to start the week ❤️: "I found your website Emergent Mind and honestly it is a game changer for me. It is simply excellent and helps me be focused without any doom-scrolling."

Welcome to a new era of partnership with Automattic 🤝 We spoke to Sasha Endoh, of Endoh Collaborative, and learned about their story and why they’re excited for Automattic for Agencies. To learn more, head to wpcom.co/A8CA4A

What's most notable to me in this decision is how much of it seems to come from a realization that if your team's going to have a President who's a big time criminal he's going to need some big time immunity.

The power of the WordPress Interactivity API. This used to be a task we'd give a junior dev, now editors can build out these interactive news pieces on their own. Our new timeline slider variation of our tab's block came together in just a few days using Fomantic's range slider.

Dan Savage The role of a political party is to provide grist for columnists not to advance the goals of its voters. This is obvious.

Currently recruiting a select group of agencies for our upcoming WordPress.com Agency Directory. Hit me up if you’d like to be considered!

This is a post to thank our members, our readers and our supporters and an update on our annual drive for the TPM Journalism Fund. TPM is that rare independent publication which has avoided the pitfalls of downsizing, retrenching, laying off staff or shuttering entirely.

Here is Automattic's C&D against WP Engine: automattic.com/2024/09/25/ope…

Offering a reprieve to WP Engine customers who are impacted and don't want to migrate to a host that isn't blocked (aka, any other WP host in the world): wordpress.org/news/2024/09/w…

At the end of a tough week, my decision to stay at Automattic was easy. zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-s…

A bit about Automattic's special A12 stock program, and what we did for people who didn't take the buy-out offer: ma.tt/2024/10/owner-…

Search/RAG/AI founders+investors beware of the hidden danger of search solutions - success is extremely subjective and the work invisible Be prepared to temper customer expectations very carefully and create an ongoing relationship softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/10/1…

I’m thrilled to share Emergent Mind’s new AI research assistant, a tool that makes it incredibly easy to learn about new computer science research. You can search for papers, topics, authors, or questions, and it will then find the most relevant computer science papers on arXiv

If you see ChatGPT and think "I'll use this to generate synonyms for search" a reminder WordNet has existed for decades, with highly curated synonyms, etc (and hasn't solved search)

Trump’s literal website:

After all that work transferring about 30 domains to Kinsta, the court ruling reversing all the changes happened the day I finished all migrations and canceled my WP Engine account. It's fine. I got 50% OFF deal Kinsta for 6 months to move, so it'll save some money in the long