TaggartThe Linux Foundation getting in bed with Coinbase to develop a web payments standard.
No thanks very much
No wait, it's worse than you thought!
Membership [of the x402 governing body] will be comprised of participants from multiple verticals with initial intent and support being expressed by Adyen, Amazon Web Services, American Express, Ampersend.ai, Base, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv Merchant Solutions, Google, KakaoPay, Mastercard, Merit Systems, Microsoft, Polygon Labs, PPRO, Shopify, Sierra, Solana Foundation, Stripe, thirdweb, and Visa.
This is a list of people I don't want in charge of my money. And yes, I am forced to use some of them. Doesn't mean I trust them.
Jason Lefkowitz@mttaggart My limited reading on x402 so far makes it sound like it's crypto-based and optimized for use by AI agents, so it really is a perfect storm of WTF
@jalefkowit Ah, so it is! Takes some reading, but "Payment method" is basically a crypto wallet. It accepts USDC, which is a dollar-indexed stablecoin, but that's as close as you get.
Sheesh.
@mttaggart Cloudflare made a big deal in their announcement yesterday of a new CMS (which I had to read three times, wary that it was an April Fool's joke) that it comes with x402 support out of the box. The cynic in me wonders why this thing I had not heard of before yesterday is suddenly popping off all over the place
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.
@jalefkowit Hunh. I'm deeply conflicted about a WordPress hard fork of this nature.
tante@mttaggart @jalefkowit it is not a fork, is it? Just another probably vibe coded reimplementation to strip a GPL from popular code.
@tante @mttaggart They drop the WordPress name a lot, but it's completely unrelated as far as I can tell. It's built on Astro and Node, it's not compatible with any existing WordPress plugins or themes. They give you an importer that can ingest content from an existing WordPress site, but that's as far as compatibility goes.
But it IS agentic, because of course it is
Stephen Dioxide 
@jalefkowit @tante @mttaggart When they say "spiritual successor," I hear, "please transfer all positive feelings you have for WordPress to us."