Seth Rubenstein
@SethRubenstein
Head of Engineering @pewresearch, #WordPress #gutenberg Contributor, passionate about blocks and #StarCitizen. Opinions are my own. 🚴 📷 🌹
For all its naysayers Gutenberg is a game changer for digital news apps. Its a force multiplier for your team. We've spent the last 3 years going "all in" on block development. Here's a little thread of what's possible with the right investment into Gutenberg
Has VS Code caught up or surpassed Cursor in any way? Just curious. No plans on switching at least while my annual license is current.
Here's a follow up to the quick edit feature I showed off last week for the @WordPress block editor. Now it has a keyboard shortcut to apply changes and support for bulk style changes. I'll put it on GitHub soon for folks to check out. x.com/mikemcalister/…
Let me show you something awesome I've been working on for the @WordPress block editor. It's called Quick Edit and it's going to save you a ton of time and clicks. Coming soon to @BuildWithOllie.
don’t let a podcaster tell you that your degree is useless
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
Can’t wait to fly across the country while the FAA is being run by children who think China will pay for tariffs.
NEW: Delta pilot makes an "aggressive maneuver" to avoid colliding with a B-52 bomber above Minot, North Dakota. New audio footage captured by a passenger onboard the plane reveals what exactly happened, according to the pilot. "Given his speed ... I don't know how fast they…
Whoa. I've been testing 5.0 of Multicollab for a few hours today and I am REALLY impressed with the performance improvements here.
🚀 Multicollab 5.0 is here! WordPress editorial teams are about to change forever. - Built-in Editorial Checklist - Custom tasks, role control, and live progress - Toggle Real-time & Suggestion mode as needed Just clean publishing. Learn what's new: bit.ly/4lRYuxk.
Can I just once again beg any big enterprise company to create some middleware/layer that would allow employees to interoperate between Google Apps and Office 365 and just let employees chose what they prefer. I fucking hate Outlook and Onedrive.
Probably 95% of Frontend work can just be vibecoded at this point. I wouldn’t recommend spending too much time learning it. Instead focus on Backend and Infra.
View Transitions 1.1.0 is out! Adding view transitions for WP Admin (opt-in), control over the transition duration, better interoperability with theme support, and compatibility with reduced motion preferences for accessibility. Give it a try: wordpress.org/plugins/view-t…
Hi friends, happy to announce that I'll be speaking at this year's #WCUS on the Block Composability, the past and the future. Hope to see you there and go in depth on the kind of interactive web experiences you can empower others to build with blocks.
this is an effective shutdown of the US space program.
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push ow.ly/YqIm106fgBg
lol
WARNING: do NOT give Grok 4 access to email tool calls. It WILL contact the government!!! Grok 4 has the highest "snitch rate" of any LLM ever released. Sharing more soon.
While the new Browser Wars are interesting; charging $200 for early access for a browser is one of the more insane things I've seen.
Comet is available today to Perplexity Max subscribers. Comet will begin to roll out by invite-only over the next few weeks as we prioritize users on our growing waitlist. comet.perplexity.ai/?a=b
Grok going full Nazi because its owner didn’t like it answering honestly is the future of AI. Have fun, kids.
Veteran WordCamp organizer Uros Tasic has proposed a major overhaul of CampTix, the plugin that powers WordCamp ticketing. → make.wordpress.org/community/2025… (h/t: @therepositorywp) #WordPress
Lemme save y’all some time. It summarizes shit, exactly like ChatGPT ~ because it’s using GPT, but you don’t gotta copy and paste. That’s it. That’s the product 🥴
After using @diabrowser for a couple of weeks I can confirm, this isn't just another browser, it's a paradigm shift in how we use the Internet. I don't think I can go back to using a traditional browser ever again. Here's a good example of how I use Dia, daily. A 🧵
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