WordPress developer Ahmad Wael breaks down the January 2026 data platform and LLM trends. Learn how LLM optimization techniques like fused kernels and context engineering are replacing brute-force scaling. Discover why Databricks and Snowflake are hitting ceilings and how to use Claude Code effectively in your development workflow.
Publishing a VS Code extension is surprisingly complex, involving Azure DevOps PAT tokens and manifest strictness. In this pragmatic guide, Ahmad Wael shares war stories from the registry trenches, including workarounds for CLI login errors, manual VSIX packaging, and ensuring your theme’s README images actually load in the Marketplace and Open VSX.
Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) is the architecture behind modern LLM context windows. By using geometric rotation instead of absolute index addition, RoPE allows models to understand relative token distance more effectively. This guide breaks down the intuition, the math, and the Python implementation for senior developers looking to optimize their transformer-based backends.
Stop wasting your billable hours on repetitive site setup. Ahmad Wael explores how to leverage a modern AI website builder to scaffold 21 different WordPress site types—from high-performance portfolios to complex membership hubs—while maintaining the clean architecture and technical precision that senior developers and business owners demand.
Learn how to avoid the “Bag of Agents” trap and scale Multi-Agent Systems effectively. Based on DeepMind’s research, discover why coordination structure matters more than agent quantity and how to suppress 17x error amplification using functional planes and a centralized orchestrator for robust, performant agentic AI.
A senior WordPress developer explains how to choose between combobox, multiselect, and listbox. Learn why your choice of UI selection components impacts accessibility, performance, and conversion rates. Includes a Gutenberg ComboboxControl refactoring example and best practices for managing large data sets in custom WordPress dashboards.
WordPress 6.9.1 maintenance release is arriving Feb 3, 2026, with a Beta scheduled for Jan 29. The latest dev chat highlights critical tickets in Trac and Gutenberg, the formation of the WP 7.0 release squad, and Gutenberg 22.4. Senior dev Ahmad Wael weighs in on stabilization and core contribution best practices.
Distributed reinforcement learning is more than just parallelizing code; it is about solving the synchronization bottleneck. Learn why naive parallelism fails in real-world policy optimization and how to implement Actor-Learner architectures with V-trace for high-performance, asynchronous training that doesn’t melt your server infrastructure. Stop waiting for rollouts and start scaling.
WordPress 6.9.1 has arrived, fixing 49 bugs across Core and the Block Editor. As a senior developer, I explain why you shouldn’t ignore this short-cycle maintenance release. Learn how to update safely using WP-CLI and what these changes mean for your site’s stability ahead of the major WordPress 7.0 launch.
Stop guessing on your tech stack. In this guide, Ahmad Wael explains how to use Decision Matrices and the ‘Efficient Frontier’ to evaluate WordPress plugins, hosting, and APIs like a senior engineer. Learn to weigh trade-offs and avoid the traps of hype-driven development with a practical PHP scoring example.