A reflection on the internet’s impact on patience and learning. It highlights how instant answers have reshaped our experiences, often sacrificing depth for speed in knowledge acquisition.
I remember reviewing my site analytics years ago and seeing a sudden burst of traffic from São Paulo. I felt a rush of excitement seeing my content reach people across the globe. Then it hit me: was my site actually legal for those readers, or was I accidentally inviting a massive fine into my inbox? … Read more
Tonight was one of my most surreal Claude Code Sundays. To make a long story short, I pointed Claude Code at my Sonos setup in Houston: “All 29 Sonos speakers were running on WiFi with SonosNet completely disabled. They had accumulated ~89 million dropped packets across the system. That packet loss is why groups kept … Read more
Greetings from snow-covered Munich — or at least it was when we left Friday for Salzburg, Austria, with a one-hour delay after our locomotive engineer got caught in the city’s snow-induced chaos. Have a fabulous weekend! Yours, Birgit Developing Gutenberg and WordPress This week, WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 is ready for your testing on a … Read more
Yesterday I was on the WP-Tonic podcast, and my colleague Adrian Laboş did a great summary of the key points, which I’ll share here: AI security audit wave incoming: Expect AI tools to flood WordPress core and the 70,000+ plugin ecosystem with both improvements and newly discovered security vulnerabilities, requiring infrastructure to triage at scale. … Read more
WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new features. How to Test WordPress 7.0 Beta … Read more
When you run a construction or contracting business, your website needs to work just as hard as you do. But many construction WordPress themes make simple tasks, like adding real project portfolios, service pages, and a quote form, more complicated than they should be. When those pages aren’t shown clearly, visitors can have a hard … Read more
The WordPress community in Uganda is pleased to introduce WordCamp Mukono 2026, scheduled for March 13 & 14, 2026, at Murs Country Resort, Kigunga, in Mukono, Uganda. Guided by the theme “Sustainable Growth – Building a Lasting WordPress Future,” WordCamp Mukono 2026 will bring together over 300 attendees including WordPress users, contributors, code wranglers, developers, … Read more
Communication isn’t just about communicating around the good things, the shiny things.
The rise of AI tools is revitalizing programming for developers, making coding enjoyable, but also increasing workload and emphasizing the need for visibility in contributions.