Five SEO plugins fighting over the same wp_head hook is a performance problem, not a strategy. Notes on 12 WordPress SEO plugins for 2026, what each one is actually good at, and the small stack I use instead.
A streak is not a counter you increment. Notes on the psychology that makes streaks work, the timezone and race condition bugs that break them, and why grace mechanisms belong in the design from the start.
AI agents optimize for code that runs, not code that is safe. Two failures I keep finding in agent-written WordPress code, hardcoded API keys and REST routes with no permission callback, plus the review habits that catch them.
Thomas Walichiewicz proposed a :near() selector so CSS can react when a pointer gets close to an element. It would replace the usual pointermove distance math, though the CSS Working Group is still weighing the fingerprinting risk.
A blocking .item() call in an autoregressive decode loop leaves the GPU idle every step. Two CUDA streams in a ping-pong pattern hide that sync, and StaticCache with torch.compile keeps the computation graph fixed.
AI features face two sets of constraints: scope, cost and time while you build, then quality, inference cost and latency once the site is live. Includes a small PHP helper for estimating what each API call costs you.
A 2MB GIF spinner is a network request competing with the content it is covering. Inline SVG loaders skip the request entirely, scale without blurring, and inherit theme colors through currentColor.
Central data teams turn into bottlenecks once the warehouse gets big enough. Here is how a contract-driven data mesh splits it into domain-owned data products, and why the contract is the part that stops decentralizing from becoming a mess.
Writing the README and wiring up CI is the part everyone puts off. OSA is a multi-agent tool that reads the repository, drafts the docs and docstrings, and generates the workflow files. Here is how it works and how to run it.
Claude Code pays off when you build it tools instead of asking it for snippets. A CLAUDE.MD map, real WP-CLI commands, and a small plugin audit script turned a four-hour debugging session into a check that runs in seconds.