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Before you read further, let this be an ask from yours truly to help test WordPress 7.1. Pick one thing! Get on a roll and maybe pick two! Any and everything helps. If you don t have time to see if an issue is already opened, open one anyways. If you aren t sure where to report, [ ]
Every release squad I m on, there are different features that keep me up or wake me up at night. Sometimes it s out of excitement. Sometimes it s out of uncertainty. Sometimes it s both. In this case of displaying inherited styles, it was definitely both. Ultimately, this morning, the decision was made to punt the feature (link [ ]
WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is out in the world as of yesterday. Whew, so many people are involved in every release that I can only offer a big thank you to everyone. Every release has its own special kind of chaos and its own special kind of coming together. The last week or so begins [ ]
A big part of using AI is knowing when and how to. Increasingly I have read about and I hear from engineers how horrible it is to review AI generated code and just how much of it there is to review. As I mull that over and take it to heart, I ve found myself drawn [ ]
I m off work this week and, partially due to surgery recovery and partially due to some known injuries, I m not able to be as physically active as I want. This means more wood carving, podcasts, reading, checking off items on my to do list, talking to folks, etc. I haven t been consistently carving as much [ ]
The last night of a three week trip in Florence, Italy, I found myself alone wandering around after an early dinner with my camera. At this point, I felt familiarity settle in with my brain drifting into thoughts of my own rather than trying to absorb my surroundings. A glorious sunset began to unfold so [ ]
As a follow up from my initial post about the internal experiment Kelly and I were working on, I wanted to share where the work ended up. Introducing Underway, a plugin that bundles four writing-focused dashboard widgets designed to help you blog more. Our goal is to encourage more writing and take steps towards having the [ ]
As a follow up from my initial post about Game Mode, I wanted to share where I ended up. My time got cut short to participate in the month long internal experiment we had due to my appendix taking center stage. I still managed to get far enough along that it feels worth sharing. Inspired [ ]
This quote has been popping into my head, borderline intrusively today: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it, and embrace them.” Rumi I ve heard another variation that s something like and love them. This is one of many [ ]
James, Tom, Soledad, Jason, Gabriel, Pam, Rebecca, Sean, Chelsea–these are the names I can remember that helped me on Monday and Tuesday this week when a sudden pain in my stomach turned into early appendicitis. James is the doctor at urgent care who, after examining me, told me that if I were a loved one [ ]