Matt: Thanksgiving Sunday
It’s an interesting cultural moment right now: I think Bryan tweeted, many people are watching people catching balls, while others are watching Bryan Johnson tripping balls. Bryan Johnson, of Blueprint fame, is livestreaming taking a heroic dose of mushrooms. It’s…
Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg Changelog #125 – WordPress 6.9, Gutenberg 22.1 and Gutenberg 22.2
The newest episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast, #125, features hosts Birgit Pauli-Haack and JC Palmes discussing a major trio of releases: WordPress 6.9, Gutenberg 22.1, and Gutenberg 22.2. JC highlights several exciting features in WordPress 6.9, focusing on significant developer and…
Designer Diary: The Plank
by Magnus Karlsson Hi there, welcome to this designer diary for The Plank. I hope you enjoy it! My name: Magnus Karlsson I live in: Vikingstad, a small village in eastern Sweden, with my wife Frida, two teenagers, and two…
Matt: Werner Predictions
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, boldly publishes his 2026 tech predictions. While you’re on his blog, take a moment to enjoy his essay, Development gets better with Age. Werner and I first crossed paths almost 20 years ago at tech…
War Story on the Honor Roll, CATAN on the Court, Amabel Holland on Kurt Vonnegut’s GHQ
by W. Eric Martin Time to catch up on a handful of announcements from the past month: ▪️ In early November 2025, San Diego Historical Games Convention, a.k.a. SDHist, gave its fourth annual Summit Award to War Story: Occupied France,…
Gutenberg Times: Livestreams on WordPress 6.9, WordPress Importer Improved, MCP Adapter and more — Weekend Edition #351
Hi there, In case you celebrated it, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, lots of turkey, sweet potatoes, beans, stuffing, gravy and pumpkin pie. Or any kind of pie really . And lots of love and laughter around…
Matt: SF WordPress Party
We’ve secured an amazing secret venue for State of the Word on Tuesday, but it has limited capacity in terms of people and has a lot of security hurdles to jump through to get in. So to open things up…
Senior Asmodee veteran Steve Buckmaster to step down as head of its vast distribution operation, deputy Marjolein Lubberman to take on role
One of Asmodee‘s top executives, Steve Buckmaster, is stepping down from his role driving the board game giant’s global distribution operation after almost 24 years with the company and its predecessor business in the UK. Chief commercial officer Buckmaster is…
Matt: Thanksgiving
I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! To me, the holiday is a reminder to be grateful. A gratitude practice is one of the most surefire ways to improve your happiness, as this study covered by Harvard Health explains….
Designer Diary: Naishi
by OnJoueTu How Did It Start? Mathieu Bieri: The story of Naishi is a story of chance encounters and happenstance. I had been working on a prototype for a game called “Drakkar” that had a simple principle of five tiles…
