From Mathieu Viet of the BuddyPress team shares that BuddyPress is preparing for some big changes. There is some self-reflection and course correction about the project focus and purpose that sounds promising.

This is a pretty cool interactive graphic about top WordPress plugins. The WPTavern article tells about it and there is a link to go to the graphic near the top.

The Amazon team has launched “CodeWhisperer” which is an AI code assistant similar to Github’s Copilot, except that it is free for personal use. It looks very interesting.

On YouTube – If you are using ACF then you might want to check out Paul C’s video Make ACF Better for Free!

Cloudways has been known for allowing users to pick their own cloud provider, sever size and customizations. Now they have announced a beta of their Autoscale service which is fully managed, auto-scaling, load balanced, and high availability.

The Human Made team announces a free online event where Human Made will show their current AI projects, other developers will show what they are working on, and there will be discussions the impact AI will have on the WordPress industry. Registration is now open.

The Meta Box team created a tutorial showing how to create a FAQ page using Meta Box and Bricks. There is a video version available.

Bricks has a beta version of 1.8 that includes the new menu builder. Here is a video walk-through by Thomas Ehrig of the Bricks Team showing the new menu builder and how it works. It is very flexible, emphasizes accessibility, and looks amazing. It is probably the most flexible menu builder available

This article by Roger Montti at the Search Engine Journal talks about how behind the scenes WordPress has been working to make sure that new releases avoid “performance regressions.” It is good to see attention to performance being made a part of the process.