Chromium made the native select element styleable. This walks through appearance: base-select, the ::picker pseudo-element, sibling-index() for per-option maths, and the anchor positioning that makes a radial picker possible, without giving up keyboard support.
Core bundles its own AI client in WordPress 7.0, so older AI Experiments builds fatal the moment you activate them. What is graduating out of experiment status, the LLM kill switch in Trac 64706, and how to load your own AI code without crashing.
Building an AI application is mostly plumbing: keys kept out of the repo, a plan for 429 responses, and a chunking engine for anything longer than the token limit. Notes on what keeps an AI feature running once it leaves your laptop.
Four reasons I build layouts with Tailwind utilities instead of named CSS classes: the structure stays readable, one-off grids never need a name, and a context change is a class edit rather than a modifier.
A pass through the CSS landing in browsers now: random() and random-item(), clip-path folded corners, the containing-block catch in anchor positioning, and tabular-nums for WooCommerce dashboards that refuse to sit still.
Nobody trains a vision language model from a blank slate. You freeze a ViT, train a Q-Former to bridge image features into the text embedding space, and wrap the language model in LoRA. This is how those three pieces fit and where the GPU hours go.
In WordPress 7.0 unsynced patterns open in contentOnly mode by default, so any block without a content role goes uneditable. What to fix in block.json, what the new listView support gives container blocks, and how to switch the whole thing off.
A dashboard shows you what moved. These five methods tell you what caused it: doubly robust estimation, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, and CATE, with the Python I run on live WooCommerce data.
Peeking at results, skipping the power calculation and tracking twenty metrics turn most A/B tests into noise. Here is the pre-test protocol I use on WordPress and WooCommerce sites, plus the short checklist I run before starting a test.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 adds a Command Palette shortcut to the admin bar and closes more than 101 bugs. What the shortcut does, how to register your own commands with the API, and why I update beta sites with WP-CLI.