The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Isn't the WordPress.org plugin review team awesome? From 1000 pending submissions to around 30. 🎉🎉

WooCommerce REST API docs have a new home developer.woocommerce.com/20…

Just shared meetomattic.com/ as a resource for distributed companies: 700 places @automattic teams have stayed during meetups around the world.

Guess what! The design team at Woo has joined X 😄 Give them a follow and you’ll be sure to see some great designs

Three days into Automattic's Radical Speed Month, Daniel López and Roberto Aranda shipped WP Desktop Mode and it already has an app store with apps, icon packs, and wallpaper scenes. therepository.email/automatt…

Coming in WooCommerce 10.8.0: better command palette support across WooCommerce admin screens. That means quicker access to common actions like adding products, creating orders, and jumping to key areas without extra clicking. A small change, but one that makes daily store management feel faster and smoother. github.com/woocommerce/wooco…

Do you know why the WordPress.org reviewer asked you to change your plugin name? A name isn't a description. Shipping isn't a name. Shipping Tracker for UPS is. With 60k plugins, reviewers need names that stand out. Add a brand or coined term before the description.

Merged multiple blogs into one domain. Maintaining separate sites was a headache, so consolidation made sense. Rebuilt the 404 page too. Broken links shouldn't just leave people hanging. Website migrations are messy but rewarding when you think through all the angles.

For WooCommerce merchants & devs: What’s a problem you’ve just “accepted” at this point? Something annoying, inefficient, or clunky you wish worked better.

WordPress, btw. hosted by us! if you want really, really fast websites, hard to beat our infra.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Ran into a weird one today. WooCommerce CSV exports are silently broken if you use S3 for uploads. Here's the one line fix, and a post with more details: roots.io/woocommerce-csv-exp…

Check out me.sh, an @Automattic project, and A central nervous system for your relationships in an AI era.

So 14 Muslims were breaking their fast on a boat in Varanasi.. Somehow that reallly hurt the “RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT” of Bhartiya Janata Yuva morcha and they filed an FIR UP police acted “swiftly” and ARRESTED all 14 of them. For eating Fruits on a BOAT.👏🏽

Hi everyone, I just open sourced OpenBrand - extract any brand's logos, colors, and assets from just a URL. It's MIT licensed, open source, completely free. Try it out at openbrand.sh/ Why we built this: while building another product, we needed to pull in customers' brand images as custom backgrounds. It felt like a simple enough problem with no open source solution - so we built one.

Stay calm and quiet through life because no matter what you do, you can never really win anyway 😌

The sweetest mistakes disappear too fast😂

The fable of the rabbit and the tortoise has been tested in real life. 🏆

There's always a friend who spoils things.