My WordCamp Sylhet 2026 Experience Build a Life You Don't Need to Escape From — Weekly NishIsHere Issue 109 — Designing a life you love, testing new AI bots, a nod to "Eye of the Tiger", wildlife spotting, and why small compliments change everything. 5 hours of enthusiasm This is out of control 😅 They asked Napoleon, "Sir, what is your next plan?" Napoleon replied, "I act, and the plan emerges from my action." reminder for myself

WordCamp Sylhet 2026 recap: the no swag policy, a busy unofficial marketing table at Contributor Day, and why you should join a local WordCamp.

hahaha this is real 😛 The very definition of "You can just do things" my life actually Liftoff of Starship's first orbital flight

My WordCamp Kathmandu 2026 experience, from my first official Contributor Day and Trac tickets to the WordPress education talks and the people I met.

A Real Newspaper Once Sold Wives With a Warranty — $6,000 for a virgin, replacement included…shocking to read this! NicheNish Issue #2 — WP More crossed 1,000. I went to WordCamp Kathmandu. Here's everything else. — WP More passed 1,000 Substack subscribers. Plus two months of updates across every hobby project and a week in Kathmandu, Nepal. World is healing ❤️

WP More passed 1,000 Substack subscribers. Plus two months of updates across every hobby project and a week in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Waking Up Every Day Is a Privilege — Weekly NishIsHere Issue 108 Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI So interesting! I did not know they made a song for the Rocky movie. "For $200 a month, anyone can use these tools and hack into a company like OpenAI. If it can happen to them — and I don't think they've been slouching recently on cybersecurity hygiene — it could happen to anyone." — Matt Fredrikson, CEO of Gray Swan Its our duty to warn them. I don't know how to react to this 😟

Automattic's board crisis explained, WordPress security survey 2026 results, agency profitability data, and why WooCommerce devs keep losing to their own to-do

A month-end catch-up on everything worth reading from August 2026 — WordPress 7.1's launch drama, Google's spam update, AI search shifts, and 82 more reads across 6 categories.

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has returned to the release lead role following Anne McCarthy’s stint on 7.1. WordPress 7.2 is set for release in December.

A personal YouTube watchlist recap for August 2026 — business, AI, WordPress drama, the MrBeast saga, and a Liziqi comeback. 37 videos worth your time.

Automattic Board Forces Matt Mullenweg on Leave, Names CFO Mark Davies as Interim CEO — Matt Mullenweg has accused CFO Mark Davies of conspiring with board members. Meanwhile, BlackRock's latest filing has valued Automattic at 83% below its 2021 peak. This is bad — very bad — news for WordPress. Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm.

WordCamp US 2026 had 60+ sessions. These 6 stood out: Daily Kos's community-first migration, The Ankler leaving Substack, agency positioning, plugin audits, cre

Film director M. Night Shyamalan just launched a YouTube channel, with the goal of breaking "stigmas" he has about creating digital content. Full 5 episode AI series, interesting! The Arc — Full AI series. A good documentary on WordPress and the WP drama. Google collab with MrBeast — multi-year Gemini partnership. Nishat's Monthly Reads 📖 Issue #3 — The June & July 2026 Catch-Up…