Matías Ventura

Big Sky

Matías Ventura — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:19:53 +0000

Automattic just released a new AI builder on WordPress.com, codenamed “Big Sky”. One of its main design principles is to operate in the real block editor environment, which means users can edit the website either through the conversational interface or by making direct edits, bouncing as needed between the two interaction models. Blocks and patterns really help structure things in a way that both users and AI can manipulate with ease.

Try it out, it’s early access, and it’s only going to get more capable from here!

On Friendship

Matías Ventura — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 02:40:00 +0000

Albert Camus wrote to René Char in 1957:

The more I age, the more I find that you can only live with beings who liberate us, who love us with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to experience. Life has become too difficult, too bitter, too weakening, for us to suffer more new servitudes from those we love. We would end up succumbing to sorrow, literally, and we have to live to find the words, the impulse, the thought on which to sustain a joy, the joy.
I cannot conceive of our friendship any other way. I adore your happiness, your freedom, in a word: your adventure, and I would like to be a companion you can be sure of, always.

So here’s to the blithe and lasting spirit of friendship… happy 40th birthday, Matt!

Rodin #5

Matías Ventura — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:12:09 +0000

Preliminary Road to WordPress 5.9

Matías Ventura — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 11:19:59 +0000

Shared a quick overview of what’s currently underway for WordPress 5.9, as a preliminary roadmap. Some are in more advanced stages than others, but together they paint a picture of what we are looking forwards to.

Océano

Matías Ventura — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 11:06:23 +0000