@wordpress/build is the tooling Gutenberg already uses internally: esbuild in place of Webpack, entry points discovered by folder, and a generated PHP file that handles enqueueing. It is not ready to replace wp-scripts on an ordinary plugin yet.
WooCommerce is at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai, with a community meetup that needs an RSVP and a booth in the Automattic area. The Developer Advocates are not attending this time, so here is how to get technical questions to them anyway.
The $599 MacBook Neo pairs a fast A18 Pro chip with 8GB of soldered memory. I go through where that 8GB runs out during local development and data work, and the few people I would still recommend it to.
Tool vendors promise 40% productivity gains and the backlog never moves. Amdahl’s Law explains why speeding up 5% of the work buys you 5%, and why I would rather measure cognitive load than coding speed.
WordPress 7.0 has gone back to beta work over real-time collaboration bugs, but it keeps shipping as RC3 and RC4 because version_compare() would reject a beta string. What that means for testing and backports until April 17th.
AI tools guess at your store because they cannot see it. MCP gives them real context: your files, your data, your WP-CLI. We talk it through at WooCommerce office hours on April 15, 2026, on Slack.
Pinecone and Chroma are a lot of machinery for a few hundred Markdown notes. The Google Memory Agent Pattern keeps structured memories in SQLite, consolidates them in the background, and loads them straight into a large context window.
Updating WooCommerce PayPal Payments to v4.0.0 sent a lot of store owners a pile of “payment gateway enabled” emails. Nobody was hacked: the update split hidden Alternative Payment Methods into separate gateways. Here is what changed and what to check in your settings.
Direct links to the official WordCamp Asia 2026 streams, with UTC start times for the Foundation, Growth, and Enterprise tracks across all three days in Mumbai, plus the Contributor Day release panel.
How I set up Python for data migrations and site audits: Black and Ruff for formatting and linting, Mypy for data shapes, pre-commit hooks as a gate, and py-spy when something runs slow.