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JAŸ-Z Returns
Since he spoke to Dean Baquet in 2017, JAŸ-Z hasn't done an interview. Hov's back! He sat down with GQ, and it's a lovely listen and read. We played enough defense, 2026 is all about offense. Your morality defines who you are, not what you’ve attained.
Community Antibodies
First, I want to say how great the jazz scene is in New York. I caught a little Latin at my go-to Guantamera last night, but the band seemed to be phoning it in a bit, so I walked over to Dizzy's and heard an amazing big band performance by the Diva all-women Jass Orchestra, they had Clint Holmes…
Stockfish
Nobody is arguing that Stockfish is conscious, but Stockfish would kick Claude’s ass at chess. Kevin Lincoln in AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again.
Ari & X
I'm in NYC for the Stephan Wolfram dev/ai/nyc conversation tomorrow at the Automattic Noho space. While walking back from the Apple Store in Soho where I had picked up a new Studio Display XDR to try out, ran into one of my favorite YouTube accounts to follow right now, Ari at Home! I ran into him around 32 minutes into this Twitch stream…
Beautiful Hack
It's bad, but it's so good. As you read this deep dive into the LiteLLM backdoor hack, or this one, it's really just quite impressive. The use of ICP canisters, wow. Just as an engineer, I'd love to meet the minds behind this code.
If you host your WordPress on WordPress.com your AI agent can now manage your entire site, including updating posts or pages, making drafts, pretty much all the things you normally do with WordPress. Hook this up to your OpenClaw, Hermes, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, whatever and have fun!
Long-time WordPresser Miriam Schwab just rebuilt her WordPress site with Claude Code and it looks amazing. Go check it out, this is what is possible now with proper prompting. I’d love to see a WordCamp keynote from Miriam on her process in this. (And she’s doing this while missiles are flying overhead. Wow.)
Bay Lights are Back!
Tonight, a project very near and dear to my heart, the Bay Lights in San Francisco, are officially re-lighting after a three-year hiatus. It's been an incredible journey getting here. I literally mortgaged my apartment in 2013 to help fund them the first time around, and it's such an honor to see them relit now with better technology and new programming from the amazing artist…
Introducing Me.sh
Very excited to share that the Clay.earth team that joined Automattic last year is re-launching under a new, very cool name and brand: Mesh. Imagine something that joins you (me) to everyone you're connected to. It's going to be a very important layer of the distributed identity and social work we're doing. It's an amazing app you should try out if you haven't yet. Available on the web, MacOS, Windows, iOS, and even the Vision Pro. Stunning design.
Song Creation
I'm in New Orleans for the first time in 7 years for a beautiful wedding. My Mom's side of the family emigrated here in the 1860s, and there's a deep comfort in the art, traditions, and weirdness of Creole culture. Good music and food are ubiquitous. I met up with WordPresser Blake Bertuccelli-Booth to catch a set by Jason Marsalis…
