Zero-heavy data breaks a single regression, and the +1 log-transform hack does not save it. How I split CLV prediction into a hurdle classifier and an amount regression, with the two mistakes that bite in production.
Telex is Automattic’s experimental tool for generating block themes from a prompt. What the output actually contains, the templates you have to ask for, and why I test every generated ZIP in Playground first.
The Connectors API gives WordPress one registry for external services, starting with AI providers. Notes on the init lifecycle, the unregister and register dance for overrides, and the keys that sit unencrypted in wp_options.
Shadow AI shows up because the official workflow is slower than the shortcut. Here is how I read that usage as a signal, and what a governed option looks like inside a WordPress stack.
WordPress 7.0 can hide a block per viewport, but the block still renders and its assets still download. Notes on the new metadata shape and the server-side check I use to handle both formats.
AI coding assistants write PHP that reads fine and falls over in production. A WooCommerce audit, the naive fetch they keep producing, and the refactor I run it through.
Gemini Embeddings 2 is in public preview: one vector space for text, images, audio and video. The preview limits, calling it from WordPress with the HTTP API, and why cosine similarity on its own still is not enough.
Generating a thousand lines of PHP takes seconds, so review is where the time goes. The review skill I run before opening a PR, why I ask for HTML reports, and the WooCommerce checkout bug that nearly shipped.
Adding delight everywhere backfires. This post compares how anime handles a tonal shift against the Marvel background-gag habit, then covers Don Norman’s three levels and the microinteractions that hold a flow together.
WordPress 7.0 lets you write CSS on a single block instance from the inspector. Here is how the hash-based scoped class is generated, where the rule is stored in the block markup, and how to opt a block out in block.json.