How I get Claude Code to improve itself overnight
I stopped hand-holding Claude Code and gave it a nightly review instead: a self-reflection skill, a 2 AM cron job, and a rules file it edits itself. This is the setup I run on real WordPress work.
Category: Development
Unified agentic memory with lifecycle hooks and Neo4j
Every AI harness keeps its own memory, so moving from Cursor to Claude Code means starting from zero context. Here is the shared layer I build instead: lifecycle hooks writing into Neo4j, plus the batch job that turns raw events into notes.
WordPress Workspace for Mac: what the beta actually does
WordPress Workspace for Mac is in beta. It puts a site-aware agent, voice dictation and screenshot uploads on the desktop instead of in another browser tab, and it previews the Guidelines feature headed for Core.
Data wrangling with Pandas is still my default in 2026
Rust-based data libraries keep shipping, but Pandas still runs most of my production pipelines. Vectorized string operations, ast.literal_eval instead of eval, and the DataFrame constructor trick that beats df.apply(pd.Series) on big datasets.
Why agentic AI systems fail in WordPress production
Most AI pilots never make it past the demo. These are the five kinds of production debt that kill agentic AI systems in WordPress, from brittle prompt handling to the legal review nobody booked.
Why recursive language models beat ReAct for long context
Recursive language models get a pointer to the data instead of having the whole thing pasted into the prompt. Why that beats ReAct and CodeAct on long-context work, and what it means for auditing a large WordPress codebase.
Polars vs. Pandas: rewriting a real data workflow
I refactored a workflow I had already optimized in Pandas over to Polars, and the runtime went from 0.31 to 0.20 seconds. The harder part was the mental shift from eager to lazy evaluation.
Credit scoring categorization: how to bin risk variables
Raw variables are rarely the best way to represent risk. How binning and Weight of Evidence keep a logistic regression stable and interpretable, and why missing income is a risk category of its own.
WordCamp US 2026 tickets are on sale for the Phoenix event
WordCamp US 2026 runs August 16 to 19 at the Phoenix Convention Center. The schedule covers Contributor Day, Showcase Day, and two days of sessions on WordPress and AI. Ticket tiers run from $25 for students to $750 for micro-sponsors.
WordPress 7.0 features and what they mean for developers
WordPress 7.0 brings a provider-agnostic AI client, PHP-only block registration with autoRegister, and a minimum PHP 7.4. This is a practical walk through those changes, with code examples and where they help on real sites.