WordPress Playground and more
For the last month, I ve had unlimited access to OpenAI Codex. It s been such a weird experience! This post is about my experience, learnings, and reflections. What I ended up shipping Quite a lot. I m sharing this early in the post to put the rest of it in perspective. It took 500 billion tokens in [ ]
Twenty-three years into WordPress, the general problem of site synchronization is still unsolved. We have great tools for the slices, but nothing for the whole. You can t reliably automate any of these tasks beyond basic sites: This post exhaustively covers what makes these problems so difficult, and what we can do instead. It is a [ ]
With unlimited tokens, the constraint becomes compute power: CPU, memory, disk space. Dan Luu s and Dennis Snell s work inspired me to move from managing Codex sessions to assigning it a big task and a pool of compute resources to maximize. It burns tokens! I ve got through ~120 billion tokens since Thursday. Dan is at ~300 [ ]
I wanted to revamp WordPress Playground UI for a while but I couldn t get any useful results from LLMs. Until today. I ve shared my struggle on Slack and Chris Huber inspired me to ask it not for 100 iterations on one design, but for 100 different designs. So I did. And I got 100 designs. [ ]
I use LLMs a lot lately. I even got an unlimited access to a popular commercial model recently, which increased my usage even more. It s all still so new to me. I keep poking at the limits and discovering what it means for software and three things come up for me on most days: Human [ ]
Jamie Marsland published this great video on how to turn your handwriting into a font, and then how to use that font on your WordPress site. Check it out!
I’ve just refreshed Butterick’s Practical Typography. The first time I read it was a couple of years ago and I’ve surely forgotten a bunch since. Here are a few thoughts I had during this read-through. Typography is like theater Butterick cites three principles from The Elements of Typographic Style: The three principles read exactly like [ ]
I looked at SQL queries through the lens of isolation levels ever since my brother showed me that concept about 16 years ago. I ve noticed many, many senior devs are unaware of this fundamental database feature. Here is a short primer on isolation levels that every backend developer should read. The core problem Suppose we [ ]
Waiting for AI to finish is uncomfortable. I found I feel better and get more done when I stay with that discomfort without acting on it. When, instead of rushing to open my fourth concurrent agent or reply to another Slack ping, I just stay right there, present. Maybe I’ll close my eyes for a moment and focus [ ]
This post is re-published post from https://make.wordpress.org/playground/2025/12/03/wordpress-playground-2025-year-in-review/ A lot happened for Playground this year! Let s review what changed and why it matters for your work: 99+% of WordPress Plugins Supported in Playground Nearly every plugin from the WordPress plugin directory works in Playground. In testing with the top 1,000 plugins, 99%…