Dave Bloom

@igorbenic @mikemcalister @WordCampUS What model did you use, Igor?

@mikemcalister @WordCampUS AI to the rescue. Told it to try redesigning it using Ollie 😂

Genuine question here: what in the world is going on with this @WordCampUS website? us.wordcamp.org/2026/ Surely this cannot be the final product for the flagship conference in our industry. We want people to come to this right? Happy to help bring this thing to life.

@learnwithmattc Then focus your attention on the current (and next) thing. I'll help you. Keep it pushin. Oh and can I borrow 20 bucks real quick thx

Every founder who sells their company has to let go. I've been letting go since last fall. It's still hard to see a brand you built destroyed.

@EidolonNight If you need a great DJ mix library (house, chillout, hip hop, reggae, international stuff), check out julianbevan.com. Launched that that late last year. @DJjulianbevan is insanely prolific and master curator of beats of all kinds. No Ariana Grande on there.

@davebloomdev If we're talking Ariana Grande's Side To Side sort of spinning, no. If we're talking pressed vinyl records, yes. 😁

Flipping vinyl records while waiting for Claude responses is how I’ll explain 2026 to my grandchildren.

@thisbitoo Same with API keys, webhooks, everything.

@davebloomdev true. You usually get an instruction like, go to {name of feature} which should lead you there if the search is good.

Stop designing navigation menus and design better lookahead search instead. I've been working with Stripe (APIs, Oauth, etc) lately and they have a bajillion links in just as many containers. I don't need to know where they thought the 'best place to put' a setting was. I just type it into the search bar and go. Is 'onboarding options' an intuitive container for Oauth? Not what I would think of, but it doesn’t matter - I just get there and can keep working. #UX #navigation

@dparker1005 @jason_coleman Awesome! Thanks @dparker1005

@jason_coleman @davebloomdev @davebloomdev I have just opened a PR here which adds a link to the Stripe Radar rules page which seems where address verification is currently enforced: github.com/strangerstudio… This change (or an equivalent) should be included in the next update. Thanks for this feedback!

@jason_coleman is it possible to link these dashboard settings? I'll go find em, but it'd be handy to just click something. Settings > Payments > Stripe Payment settings in PMP.

@ui_jedi @bgardner @photomatt Except for that whole Block Editor thing

@bgardner @photomatt is a smart guy. He knows what he's doing. Better to ship it right than putting out fires later.

🚨 Wow. 🚨 “Today, Matt made the decision to remove real-time collaboration from WordPress 7.0 and shared that he is not confident the current approach is robust enough to include in Core at this time, citing concerns around surface area, race conditions, server load, memory efficiency, and recurring bugs found through fuzz testing.” make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/0…

@itsdavemartin @automattic Great design! Should use that for dot org...

Just shared meetomattic.com as a resource for distributed companies: 700+ places @automattic teams have stayed during meetups around the world.

@EidolonNight Also good points! Sorry to sneak my rant in.

Ah. This post might not be for you. 🙃 Interesting thoughts though. "I'd rather see marketing that I can use to get more, higher-paying, happier clients using WP as the foundation." This is honestly where I was going with the Showcase. Do you have any client sites in there? If not, maybe submit them. Brag about having them listed there. Jump on the social hype train. "It surprises me that WP.org doesn't have 'how to build a WordPress-powered business' resources on its homepage, nav, etc. Maybe I'm missing it." I'm curious what this would look like. In my mind, that sounds like "How to build a shed with a hammer." In the context of a business, WordPress is a tool or layer. I always told clients that enabling WooCommerce was easy. Figuring out local laws, taxes, shipping, etc. were the hard parts.

WHY is no one in the WordPress community doing any of the following: - Live commentary on WordPress events? All flagship events are livestreamed. Do your own side-stream commenting on keynotes. Working title: "Mystery Matt Theater 3000". - Combing through WordPress.org/photos for quality photos and then creating online/print zines? Everything is CCO. You could literally make money off this. - Scanning new WordPress.org/showcase entries to match sites against their own customer database and then jumping on it as a marketing campaign? "Did you see SiteX is in the Showcase? They use our plugin. Coincidence? I think not." All this stuff is literally FREE content there for the taking.

I have pretty unorthodox (?) thoughts on the whole marketing of WordPress, as someone who has been using it to design/dev sites for almost 15 years. The output of conferences/showcases don’t solve my problems (look up jobs to be done theory). So I don’t attend them, don’t watch the keynotes, wouldn’t pay for any derivative products on top of those. I'm not looking for WP to entertain me, I'm using it to make me money helping clients sell their products and services (and advertising my ability to facilitate that with my own sites/products/platforms). WordPress’s insistence on 'democratization' presents it as a tool to make your own site. But cheaper alternatives and the 'great abstraction' of AI make it easier to pick alternatives, and that isn't slowing down at all. I'd rather see marketing that I can use to get more, higher-paying, happier clients using WP as the foundation. In other words - if you're selling something, make sure its making the customer more money than they spent buying it. Unless it’s crazy entertaining or essential to their quality of life. It surprises me that WP.org doesn't have 'how to build a WordPress-powered business' resources on its homepage, nav, etc. Maybe I'm missing it. That's a job to be done.

@davebloomdev Curious what you would need to open your wallet for. Cost to do any of this should be free or negligible, and would potentially generate profits.

@jkohlbach @cklosowski Gloktar

@cklosowski Hahaha it’s been two days of pure nostalgia 🤣 takes me right back to when I used to wire up our 386 and 486 with coaxial cables and playing Warcraft II all summer with my cousin

migrated from ghostty to cmux yesterday... its so good in comparison. I also made it play the Warcraft II peon saying "Jobs done" when it notifies me that it's done with something (just makes me smile lol)

Both I guess. I commented because I’m frustrated that people think that making usability and a11y worse is 'novel' and that actually useful (simpler) stuff is forgettable and dull. Weirdness isn’t always better (and it’s not always worse either). There are markets for both.

@davebloomdev @famousish Is this just general thoughts on the subject or do you genuinely think the image he posted here is hard to read or consume?

Wow, this was also a one shot.

@BlakeWhittle7 @mattmedeiros Still worth it by a long shot

@mattmedeiros I think prices will double for the same usage. $100 turns into $200 and $200 turns into $400. Same usage limit.

How much will Claude Code Max cost a year from now?

@rayhanarif07 Attention economy dude. 'WordPress is fine' posts aren’t going to start fights, and this here’s a fightin platform.

Every “leaving WordPress” post I come across seems to point to Astro. But when I dig a little deeper, I often don’t see any prior conversations or context showing those people were actually using WordPress in the first place. To me, it starts to feel less organic and more like a coordinated narrative almost like a well-planned negative campaign against WordPress. It even makes me wonder whether some companies might be incentivizing this kind of messaging for their own business gains. I could be wrong, but that’s honestly the impression I’ve been getting.

@jason_coleman @Lockedown_ Give em a break, they’re ending genocide

@Lockedown_ You sound fun!

Fuck, I hate how the WordPress ecosystem has become 100 percent AI shills and people who hate actual human creativity (and humanity itself).

@famousish I meant Twitter. I'm not completely disagreeing with your premise - its a nifty flyer and WordPress needs some guerrilla energy sometimes. But arthouse websites are like high fashion. Like wearing this to the grocery store:

@davebloomdev haha I was, now I'm using this.

@famousish You're using it now though.

@davebloomdev If simplicity is your thing, go for it. I think simplicity is boring and I can't use boring software.