Derek Hanson Automattic

Many people have wanted a Yoast-like default social/Open Graph image setting in Jetpack. I opened my first Jetpack monorepo PR to make that setting real in the Traffic screen, where the social preview already lives.

I don’t click share buttons. I never have. When I find something worth sharing, I tap the share icon in Chrome on my phone. That’s it. On my desktop I click the little link icon in Arc’s browser bar, or I just double-click the address bar and hit command-C command-V. I’ve never once looked at […]

I built my first Gutenberg PR from a product idea I had already tested in Opa.blog. The code still has to pass review, but the bigger shift is already clear: AI coding agents can help product people, writers, designers, and WordPress power users move from “someone should build this” to “what would it take for me to build the first version?”