I make websites and things
I spent the weekend chasing a rabbit down a hole. I built an IMDB for actual plays mostly from my phone. The thought process went something like this: Aabriya Iyengar has been in a bunch of live TTRPG actual plays, both the mainstream kind (Dimension 20, Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, Dungeons Dragons official) and [ ]
Five years ago, I was so burnt out, I didn t think I had a future being a software engineer. Five years ago, I thought I couldn t cut it. I didn t have the chops. I couldn t keep up. Coding was not fun. I began to wonder if it ever was fun. One of the arguments against [ ]
I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from a self-proclaimed 20 year agency veteran of WordPress saying that was it, they re moving the entire agency off of WordPress and onto AI. Now, because I, too, am a 20 year veteran of WordPress, this kind of story catches my attention. He posted that they [ ]
It s just about a full year since I finally gathered up the courage to don short shorts and tights, expose parts of my body that are so white you d need sunglasses against the glare, and flip myself upside down using only the power of my actual human muscles. And I m still here, still doing it. [ ]
This is based on a thread that I posted to Bluesky that I decided to keep here for posterity. If you want to discuss on Bluesky, follow me at @jazzsequence.com and let s chat. Let s talk about AI. I ve been using it a lot recently. It s not that I don t see or care about the environmental [ ]
For the last couple weeks, I ve been building a headless Next.js frontend for this site — a project I ve been calling jazz-nextjs. The idea is straightforward enough: keep WordPress as the content management layer (where I actually like writing) while serving the public-facing site through a modern React frontend hosted on Pantheon s Next.js infrastructure. What s [ ]
The cat is finally out of the bag. I was officially named Interim President of The WP Community Collective this week. When I joined The WPCC as a member last year, it was not too long after going to my first DrupalCon. DrupalCon Atlanta was enlightening for a lot of reasons. But most relevant to [ ]
I apologize in advance for this post which is going to be all over the place. Yesterday, the latest major version of WordPress was released. WordPress names each version after a jazz musician and this release was named after Gene Harris. Gene. But naming a piece of software that I have worked in and around [ ]
Last week, I took my first trip to Canada for WordCamp Canada 2025 (WCEH). Anyone who follows me on social media, may have seen the video I recorded in anticipation of the trip. While sadly I didn t do a lot of exploring, I had a number of takeaways from the event. Organization There have been [ ]
I want to talk today about Sora 2 and the new Sora AI app. First of all, Sora is not new. OpenAI released Sora about a year ago initially and, at the time, it was a sort of hidden part of ChatGPT that let you make bad videos. And trust me, they were bad. I [ ]
