a block building playground
Many people have wanted a Yoast-like default social/Open Graph image setting in Jetpack. I opened my first Jetpack monorepo PR to make that setting real in the Traffic screen, where the social preview already lives.
I don t click share buttons. I never have. When I find something worth sharing, I tap the share icon in Chrome on my phone. That s it. On my desktop I click the little link icon in Arc s browser bar, or I just double-click the address bar and hit command-C command-V. I ve never once looked at [ ]
I built my first Gutenberg PR from a product idea I had already tested in Opa.blog. The code still has to pass review, but the bigger shift is already clear: AI coding agents can help product people, writers, designers, and WordPress power users move from “someone should build this” to “what would it take for me to build the first version?”
I’m working on something I’m very passionate about. I’m learning and doing things with WordPress I never imagined. Do you want to know what it is? I think you’ll find interesting, even if just to see how it gets built.
This month I m working with Marjorie R. Asturias to build something new with WordPress. I ll be sharing my work as I go on my blog, Substack, and here on LinkedIn. I had worked out an idea initially to build a completely new experience, but it was turning into a spaghetti mess of Next.js, Astro, and [ ]
I wanted to build a second brain. I spent weeks going in circles on the tech stack. Then I stopped planning and just started building with WordPress and AI.
The first version of Cover Block Parallax Style was a pretty simple idea: add a smooth parallax scrolling effect to the native WordPress Cover block without requiring custom blocks or shortcodes. Toggle it on, pick a speed, done. v1.2.0 is less about new features and more about fixing things that were quietly broken. What got [ ]
A grad school seminar, two books, and a gap nobody had filled My dad was big into history. Growing up, we spent a lot of time learning about historic wars and battles together, tabletop games like Axis and Allies, Civil War miniature games he and his friends built from scratch. So when I walked into [ ]
This block has been a long time coming. I first built the Scroll Indicator back in September, when I was exploring what Telex AI could do. The idea was simple: a small animated mouse icon that sits at the bottom of the screen and nudges readers to keep scrolling. Telex built it in minutes. It [ ]
I built a podcast RSS feed block in Telex last week. I needed it for a project, and within minutes I had a working proof of concept, an RSS block that pulled in episodes with custom style settings. Telex is incredible for that moment when you have an idea and need to see it working [ ]