The Bits-over-Random Metric compares your retrieval against random chance, which is how you catch the context pollution a high Success@K hides. Notes on staged tool routing and where the collapse regime starts.
WordPress 7.0 slipped a few weeks so the collaboration layer can sit on a custom table instead of transients. What that means for polling load, cache invalidation, and any plugin still using classic metaboxes.
Native @mixin is under discussion, an SVG favicon can follow the user’s color scheme on its own, and object-view-box has been cropping images in Chrome since 2022. Notes on what each one replaces.
Trac #64393 pushed the 7.0 branch back to RC2, so every trunk commit now needs two committers to sign off and the Polyglots team cannot start yet. Here is what is still allowed on the milestone.
Gmail’s Mic Drop button and Stack Overflow’s Stack Egg are the two April 1st pranks worth studying: one ignored user intent, the other shipped a whole execution layer for a 24-hour gag.
The six-month version of this career change is a sales pitch. Coming from a software background it took closer to two years, and the money goes to people who can ship a RAG system that does not leak data, not to people who can write prompts.
A client ran her entire business through WhatsApp until the account was blocked on a Tuesday. What owned digital assets mean in practice, and why Brazil’s first Automattic partner writes WordPress.com into its contracts.
WooCommerce 10.6.2 stops matching variable product attributes through a transformed slug and compares names directly, which unbreaks selection when attributes carry special characters. It also cleans up the admin ahead of WordPress 7.0.
A colleague shipped a custom assistant in a couple of hours by wiring Google Calendar, Microsoft To Do and Notion together. Execution stopped being the bottleneck, and here is a Gemini API scheduler you can start from inside WordPress.
My agent failed the same caching refactor three times before I fixed how I was briefing it. Planning mode, browser access through Playwright MCP, and claude.md files are what turned that into one-shot work.