John James Jacoby

Done. @WordPress @BuddyPress @bbPress.

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

If nothing else, listening to history podcasts has taught me that every accountant grossly mishandles their clients’s finances.

[Angie Meeker @angiemeeker]

Man https://t.co/9rFxMMGXzf is fast. Dropped Droplr and Loom for it this week.

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Ai: “You’re right”

Me:

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

“I know where it is but I can’t find it”

[Syed Balkhi @syedbalkhi]

I hate CAPTCHAs.

And so do your customers ... up to 40% of them abandon a form the moment they see one.

But the alternative used to be worse.

At one point, my @wpbeginner forms got 18,000 spam requests in a single night.

So I tried everything. Honeypots, rate limiting, etc -- they worked for a while until they didn't.

There are premium spam tools, but they're often slow & expensive. They flag real people without telling me why.

So I asked my team to build something better.

It's called ActiveLayer (@activelayerapi) - an AI-powered spam protection that blocks bots without ever asking your real customers to prove they're human.

No CAPTCHAs. No tracking scripts. No friction.

It runs server-side in milliseconds and returns a verdict with a confidence score, so you can actually see why something was flagged.

It works with every WordPress form plugin you already use including WPForms (@easywpforms), @gravityforms, Contact Form 7, Elementor (@elemntor), etc.

There's also a clean REST API for everything else, so you can use it on any application platform, not just WordPress.

Think of it as a smart security guard for your forms. It welcomes real people, blocks the bots, and never asks anyone to prove they are human.

Let's make the web a little less spammy together.

Try it free → https://t.co/6yC13fh9PM

[Dave Martin @itsdavemartin]

Just shared https://t.co/mOBcwf2gio as a resource for distributed companies: 700+ places @automattic teams have stayed during meetups around the world.

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

@markjaquith @JamesRLandrum

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Never trust a tree, because they’re shady

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Happy birthday @apeatling 🧡

[WordPress @WordPress]

WordCamp Asia 2026 is streaming live. Watch a special Contributor Day panel and two full conference days across 3 tracks. Matt Mullenweg closes the event with a keynote and a Q&A session on the final day. All links: https://t.co/MqkYtcePv6

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Bro

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

@markjaquith tldraw is so great

[WordPress @WordPress]

WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing. The final release is scheduled for April 9, 2026. Test it now and report any issues before launch. https://t.co/EOokf8RVE5

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Chronic pain, of any kind, mental physical emotional, destroys life

I don’t care if it’s a broken heart or a cavity in a tooth, if you are suffering, you cannot thrive

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Favorite New Order song?

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

The Goshfather

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

😬

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

“Hey Siri, what is 1 plus 1?”

-Electrified rocks in your house vibrate & resonate to telepathically query their wirelessly connected hive mind for the most accurate and up to date solution to every individual question from all of humanity’s needs-

“Eleven.”

[Sam Altman @sama]

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.

OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

[John James Jacoby @JJJ]

Put your .ssh in a Git repo?

https://t.co/uv1255709e