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The tech industry is in upheaval again, but the mindset that made you a good developer before is exactly what will keep you a good developer now. Here's how to adapt, thrive, and raise the floor for your whole team.
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Guardrails for Agentic Development
Agents can write code fast, but speed without feedback loops produces mediocre results. Here's how guardrails transform agentic development from vibe coding into a workflow you'd actually trust in production.
Claudaborative Editing 0.4: Twice the fun!
Claudaborative Editing 0.4 brings AI writing tools directly into the WordPress block editor. Proofread, review, edit, translate, plan posts with an interactive compose mode, and get pre-publish metadata suggestions, all without leaving Gutenberg.
The Human in the Loop
The 'human in the loop' paradigm works brilliantly for code, where creativity lives in architecture and design. But for writing meant for humans, the act of writing is the creative act, and delegating it to an LLM means delegating your creativity. Here's why I build AI writing tools that assist rather than replace.
Claudaborative Editing 0.2: now with 500% more collaboration!
A week ago, I put together a quick tech demo, showing how an MCP server could be created for Claude Code that hooked directly into Gutenberg s Collaborative Editing feature, allowing it to act as a digital collaborator on a post. The demo focused primarily on text generation, but that s not really the benefit that I [ ]
Embed All The Things!
Over 10 years ago, we introduced the oEmbed API to WordPress, expanding how WordPress handled embedding to cover all WordPress sites. It was an intentional decision to focus on oEmbed at the time: we wanted to focus on the embedding mechanism that would give site owners maximum control over what their embeds looked like. The [ ]
Introducing claudaborative-editing
Human editor s note: The post below was written by Claude Code. I personally don t use LLMs to write for me, but I figured I d make an exception just this once. Using entirely LLM-generated content isn t a workable approach to writing good copy, but I m interested in seeing how we can use these tools to interact [ ]
Introducing Tidy Weather
I ve been dabbling in the Flutter world for several years, and I recently published my first Flutter-based app! It s a clean (one could even say, tidy ) little weather app, giving you a quick overview of everything you need to know in the day. Because it s Australia-only, it does have a very Australia-centric view on what [ ]
Correcting a (personal, made-up) Travesty
I ve listened to Triple J s Hottest 100 countdown for decades. Long after I grew out of being the target demographic, I ve enjoyed it as a small window into what s popular just a little outside of mainstream, and I make an effort to listen to the entire countdown every year. This year I had a hashtag-proud-dad [ ]
Keeping up with Claude
I ve been experimenting with Claude Code quite a bit recently, and found myself wanting to be able to view my usage at a glance. Unfortunately, Anthropic don t yet provide this information in a format consumable by a status line helper, so I ve hacked together a little script that ll do it for you. I have it [ ]