This was one of EmDash's first podcast interviews since launch. A few things that came up that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere:
- Kane confirmed Matthew Prince (Cloudflare CEO) directly asked "can we build the next WordPress?" — this was top-down, not a skunkworks project
- Their Q2 roadmap was literally a question mark. They didn't know if anyone would care. The community response changed that, and they're actively allocating resources
- Plugin sandboxing outside Cloudflare is being worked on by community contributors; Kane expects a Node implementation "next week"
- They want federated/distributed plugin marketplaces (looking at the FAIR proposal), not a centralized store
- Joost de Valk (Yoast creator) already has a merged PR improving SEO handling in core
- No marketplace monetization yet, but they explicitly want devs to build commercial businesses on it
First 37 minutes is the interview, rest is discussion of implications from a WordPress product perspective.
Very cool to see this! It turns out my wife and I bought Andy Barto’s (and his wife’s) house.
During the process, there was a bidding war. They said “make your prime offer” so, knowing he was a mathematician, we made an offer that was a prime number :-)
> The metal concentrations varied by where the tampons were purchased (US vs. EU/UK), organic vs. non-organic, and store- vs. name-brand. However, they found that metals were present in all types of tampons; no category had consistently lower concentrations of all or most metals. Lead concentrations were higher in non-organic tampons but arsenic was higher in organic tampons.
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> Metals could make their way into tampons a number of ways: The cotton material could have absorbed the metals from water, air, soil, through a nearby contaminant (for example, if a cotton field was near a lead smelter), or some might be added intentionally during manufacturing as part of a pigment, whitener, antibacterial agent, or some other process in the factory producing the products.
Same in the west slope of Colorado. So much water is used to grow alfalfa, in part because there is a “use it or lose it” water rights policy:
> Failure to apply a water right to beneficial use when water was available for a period of ten or more years results in a rebuttable presumption of abandonment.
This leads to huge amounts of wasted water and alfalfa growing.
I gave it this prompt, which I didn't spend any time refining, and it came up with a world that does a pretty good job of matching it.
> A world made of very strong rock that has lots of rain. The rain contains acid, which wears the rock down. There is lots of soil, but it s in very thin layers because the world is relatively new.
This article doesn’t really address statistics for younger people. I feel like the headline should be: should elderly people be given CPR? For me the answer is a strong no. Why on Earth would you give CPR to a 90-year old person!?
> survival after out-of-hospital CPR dropped from 6.7% for patients in their 70s to just 2.4% for those over 90
a) These features are truly moving. I didn’t expect to get emotional from a press release.
b) It’s gonna be a bonkers keynote if they’re releasing this before WWDC.
This was one of EmDash's first podcast interviews since launch. A few things that came up that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere:
- Kane confirmed Matthew Prince (Cloudflare CEO) directly asked "can we build the next WordPress?" — this was top-down, not a skunkworks project
- Their Q2 roadmap was literally a question mark. They didn't know if anyone would care. The community response changed that, and they're actively allocating resources
- Plugin sandboxing outside Cloudflare is being worked on by community contributors; Kane expects a Node implementation "next week"
- They want federated/distributed plugin marketplaces (looking at the FAIR proposal), not a centralized store
- Joost de Valk (Yoast creator) already has a merged PR improving SEO handling in core
- No marketplace monetization yet, but they explicitly want devs to build commercial businesses on it
First 37 minutes is the interview, rest is discussion of implications from a WordPress product perspective.