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Carlos Bravo

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AI may be killing my attention to detail

I remember a time when developing things for Gutenberg or Core was scary. Everything you reviewed, wrote, or introduced was done with great care, with an eye on not breaking anything. The result of all this has been slow development, and processes and bureaucracy that have kept the project from moving as fast as some [ ]

Redesigned my blog in a day with Claude + Studio

I ve just redone my personal website in a day. My tools: Studio s sync has been delightful, but still there is a need for only site editing related sync option, as you may lose some content if you mess with pull-push ( writing a post on production, not pulling, and then pushing a change you did [ ]

2025 Wrap Up – 2026 Goal

The first day of the year is always a good moment for a wrap-up. It is also the perfect time to set a goal for the next 52 weeks. Work wrap up Last year was not as productive as I would have liked, but I still managed to accomplish quite a bit: I did not [ ]

Enable xdebug on wordpress-develop repo

Just adding this for my future self s health. First, update the PHP config file. The VSCode launch file: Do not forget to update your .env file. Beware of trying to make it work with AI; you may end up with some hallucinations and tons of files!

Swimming, reading, driving and videogames.

These are my favorite activities—the ones that make time fly by. They allow my mind to drift among random thoughts, coming and going, much like in meditation. Lately, I’ve needed them more than ever.

The benefit of having a cozy videogame.

Life is hard, full of decisions, problems, highlights, lowlights, etc. For that reason, having a place where everything is scripted, with slight changes every week but with the same mechanics overall, is essential for my tired brain at the end of some days. I m lucky enough to have that place with some friends, so I [ ]

My PC is officially old

Yesterday I tried to run my old PC again. Folders took a ton of time to open, the display was at a low resolution due to AMD drivers not working with Windows 10 anymore, and, in the near future, that Windows version will stop receiving updates. So I installed Ubuntu; installing Ubuntu has been my [ ]

The vendor lock-in problem

I ve been using a few apps for writing lately: Day One, Obsidian, Apple Notes, and Journal. Each one has slight differences that make me use them for different cases: What if I wanted to have all the systems integrated into only one app? The response is easy; migrations are a nightmare. Each system has its [ ]

2025 – Goals

This year, I ll keep the same system I used in 2024. No goals, just flow and survive. Well, maybe winning a padel match would be awesome. I won a Padel match on January 14th.

Keeping the lights on

Yesterday we all had a difficult day at the office. I decided to stay, and I kept the lights on by deploying Gutenberg 19.4.0 RC1. I joined Frontity and Automattic to work on one of the biggest open source projects in the world, and that is what I plan to keep doing.