The Google Nest Hub beats the Skylight We came close to buying a Skylight. If you haven't seen one, it's a touchscreen calendar that sits in the kitchen and shows the whole family's week.... https://ronnieburt.com/the-google-nest-hub-beats-the-skylight/

The Google Nest Hub beats the Skylight

We came close to buying a Skylight. If you haven't seen one, it's a touchscreen calendar that sits in the kitchen and shows the whole family's week. The big one is $630, plus $79 a year for the good features. With three kids' worth of school and extracurricular events, I was tempted. But I really didn't want to spend the money.

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AI can build a website in minutes, but it still can't decide what ships. That's the takeaway from Automattic for Agencies' latest webinar on AI and @wordpress.org, led by AI Product Lead @ronnieburt.com.

If you use WordPress and never tried WordPress Studio (especially the beta) you're missing out on its AI features. I just took it for a spin to restyle my blog using a blog theme on a cheap WordPress.com personal plan and it did a great job.

Spent the last 4 weeks in Santander, Spain. Here's a little review. 10 out of 10, would do again. https://ronnieburt.com/santander/

Here’s an exciting one: You can now use Claude, ChatGPT, or your preferred AI agent to build and improve your WordPress.com site. We’ll show you how with our new self-guided video course.

I love a good changelog, and this cycle's got a lot for WordPress.com. Better image editing, a bunch of fixes, and slick design and block editing tools now in the MCP connector. Let's go! wordpress.com/blog/2026/06...

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Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

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See you soon!

WordPress.com@wordpress.com · 5mo ago

We’re gearing up for @wceurope.bsky.social in Kraków, Poland! 🇵🇱 We’re so proud to be a Super Admin of this year’s event, and from June 4–6, we can’t wait to celebrate all things @wordpress.org, together.

... and many more! 🎶

WordPress@wordpress.org · 5mo ago

23 looks good on WordPress. 🎂 Since May 27, 2003, WordPress has been blogging, building, publishing, shipping, translating, theming, plugin-ing, and making the web a little more wonderfully weird. Happy birthday, WordPress. 💙 #WordPress

I've seen more and more teachers and parents be against any AI use in schools. What do you think?

Don’t hide AI from our kids

My youngest was born in March 2020 — the day most things started shutting down here in Texas. She's a kindergartner now, six years old. One of her brothers is finishing 5th grade, and his class is the last group at his elementary school where every kid lost their kindergarten year to Covid. He spent that year on a screen at our kitchen table.

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WordPress makes for a pretty solid (and easier) alternative to Open Claw. Wanna give it a spin? Join the waitlist. Let's see what this thing can really do!

WordPress is my Open Claw now

We're running an experiment at Automattic right now where folks are pausing the usual roadmap work to tackle something they wouldn't normally do. I've spent my time building HelloDolly.fun. Open Claw, Hermes, Nano Claw, Claude Cowork - I've tried them all, plus more. We're in a phase where the potential on the horizon is way more exciting than the actual day-to-day benefit.

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I had a great time working with @itsdavemartin.bsky.social on a building a new way to use WordPress.com to easily start a private social network just for friends & family - or for those that really appreciate the short form blogging experience - wordpress.com/blog/2026/04... #wordpress

A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com

At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere betw…

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I'm in the air and on my way. If you'll be there, please say hello!

WordPress.com@wordpress.com · 6mo ago

Mumbai, we made it! 🇮🇳 The WordPress.com team is at Jio World Convention Centre this week for @WordCamp Asia 2026. We have a lot to share, from the latest in secure, flexible hosting to our latest AI features. Let’s celebrate all things @wordpress.org, together.

So, @wordpressdotcom is now officially the best deal on the internet - enterprise level hosting with redundancy and scale (no traffic limits!) for the price of a coffee per month wordpress.com/blog/2026/04...

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Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

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WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Agents to Work on Your Site and More Control Over Newsletter Sending wordpress.com/blog/2026/03...

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Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

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Showing up at DrupalCon felt a little like wearing a visitor's jersey at a football game — you just hope people are nice about it. ronnieburt.com/stop-buildin...

Stop building AI features

It was weird walking into DrupalCon in Chicago this week knowing almost nobody. I’m a WordPress guy. I’ve been to dozens of WordCamps. Showing up at DrupalCon felt a little like wearing…

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Never thought this longtime WordPress guy would be attending and speaking at a DrupalCon. It's obvious that open source platforms are more important than ever as the web shifts to AI-first. (Though I can confidently say that WordPress is a little bit ahead of Drupal on the AI front.)

Hosted birthday party for my kindergartener today. Only ONE kid wanted any chocolate cake. When did cake become the new brussel sprouts? To be fair, they almost all wanted the ice cream.

TWICE AS NICE 🤘 #HookEm | #AlwaysCompete

The real risk isn't that AI replaces you. It's that you let it do the work you should be doing yourself, and nobody notices the drop in quality — including you. ronnieburt.com/ai-is-only-a...

Your AI is only average

The real risk isn’t that AI replaces you. It’s that your output drops from above average to average without anyone noticing — including you. It’ll just be a little more forgettabl…

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190 years ago today, Texians declared independence because an authoritarian leader ignored the constitution and concentrated power in the nation's capital. Texans — Anglo and Tejano alike — said no. Happy Independence Day, y'all!

Current status: more open AI agents than I have pixels to display them on. Might need to start stacking monitors like it's 2008 and I'm day trading. Womp womp.

Meet the WordPress AI Assistant, now built into WordPress.com. The AI assistant isn’t a separate chatbot; it’s a creative co-pilot that works inside your site. It collaborates with you to design, write, and build, all without leaving the editor.

Haven't finished my first ☕️ on Saturday morning, and used new secret (not yet public) powers of telex.automattic.ai to completely redesign ronnieburt.com and build a block to showcase talks and podcasts. Not bad. Not bad.

Back in my Edublogs days, our goal was a WordPress for every student. It is so fun to see these new initiatives from @wordpress.org really take off. WordPress Credits, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs plug real campuses into real open-source impact. wordpress.org/education/

Education

Education Empowering the next generation of open web creators About Creating clear, accessible pathways into the open-source ecosystem. We help learners turn their knowledge into practice, discover th...

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WordCamp Asia tickets are on sale. Come swap build tips, learn what’s new in @wordpress.org, and leave with fresh ideas for your next site. April 9-11 in Mumbai, India. Ticket link in 🧵.

Being personally grilled by Stephen Wolfram on business and product decisions is a career highlight I didn't see coming.

Automattic@automattic.com · 10mo ago

Some big news to close out 2025: @stephenwolfram.bsky.social has officially joined Automattic as a Special Advisor.

Our very own @ma.tt joined the TBPN crew to close out #StateOfTheWord yesterday. They talked about WordPress 6.9, open source, @beeper, and how AI is changing the web. Did you miss it? Check it out now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQh...

New: Automate how memories, ideas, and important information flow into Day One by linking it to thousands of apps with Zapier. 30+ pre-built Zap templates available now. See what's new: dayoneapp.com/blog/introdu...

Automate Your Journaling: Connect Zapier with Day One

Connect Day One to thousands of apps you already use to streamline the way memories, ideas, and important information flow into your journal.

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My favorite app (I use it every single day) just got a big new improvement. Looking forward to a road trip playlist over Thanksgiving this week!

Automattic@automattic.com · 11mo ago

The team at Pocket Casts just launched Playlists, a flexible new way to organize episodes from any podcast, even ones you don’t follow. Build your own flow or let Smart Playlists do the work for you! Now available on iOS and Android.