Fun to celebrate my 25th undergrad anniversary today on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson. Class of 2000 from the College of Humanities: B.A. French Proud Pi Delta Phi member (French Honor Society) Wonderful to hear from and celebrate the career milestones for this year's two awardees: "Young Professional Achievement Award" recipient Florence Luna and "Alumna of the Year" Michelle Durham.

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Paolo Belcastro of Automattic on how a text-first culture is the key to asynchronous communication.

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Read onlineIssue #341 | September 20, 2025 Hi there, A month before Beta, is the time I get excited about a major release. Many new features—I see it all coming together via GitHub and Trac. The Source of Truth is in the works, but it will take a few more weeks to be published, as only when Release candidate 2 comes out I can be sure about what actually made it into the release.

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Art for art's sake. Ed Chao's personal illustrations are both inspiring and relaxing at the same time: I love the sleeping dog, playful coffee culture, and the old man's face at the bottom. Pushing the AeroPress that last little bit! Lots of depth in these simple strokes.

Great list! Here are my additions: You help your friends add PHP code to their website footer files to show the current date correctly (“here’s a code snippet”) You type /feed on any URL to try and follow via RSS You may have memorized a few Trac ticket numbers that you super-duper care about landing in core You naturally type URL fragments into the browser address bar, including /wp-admin…

Anthony and Katie are joined by Lance Willett, Chief Quality Officer at Automattic. There's a lot packed into this hour long conversation, but a few things we touch on are:- Measuring and championing ...

When I started my new role in late 2024, I came across a blog post by Anthony Hobday listing companies with dedicated quality efforts. I found it inspiring and motivational; "these are people that get it." Last week I spoke to Anthony (a product designer) and his co-host Katie Langerman (a systems designer) on their excellent podcast "Complementary" for Episode 64: Being Intentional About Quality with Lance Willett…

I recently joined Between Two COOs to chat with Michael Koenig about quality, leadership, and how we scale open-source software at Automattic including WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, and lots more. A fun conversation since MK and I have known each other 15+ years after working together at Automattic in the earliest days. I've followed his career and learned from listening to these insightful episodes over the years.