A personal reflection by Matt Mullenweg. This is what its really about.

There is a new browser Popover API to standardize and simplify creating popovers without needing to use JavaScript. The first implementation will be coming soon to Chrome and Chrome-based browsers.

This is the recording of a Hallway Hangout discussing challenges in creating blocks for clients and locking down block themes / the site editor to restrict what the client can change.

A lot happening for the 20th Anniversary of the first release of WordPress. Happy Birthday WordPress! Sarah Gooding has a nice review of the history and milestones of the project.

JetEngine 3.2 beta is adding the ability to use ChatGPT to help in creating SQL queries.
To me it seems like an interesting idea but at this point somewhat experimental.

Matt Mullenweg was on the Design Better podcast. It is an interesting discussion for people who are following what he has been doing, but note that very little of the discussion relates to what is happening in WordPress now. One interesting point is that he mentioned he has seen what is coming in AI and that shortly it will be a level of magnitude better.

It is good to see that attention is being paid to improve performance. The tests were of even very basic installs / configurations. I’m guessing this means that 6.3 will come with another performance boost.

Jamie Marsland poses the question, has the plugin version of Gutenberg served its purpose and is it time now to close it out and move on?

Many of us are using MariaDB and a new health check plugin was created at CloudFest Germany. This plugin displays information about the health of your database and optimizations you can run.