Any plugin can claim a top-level spot in the WordPress admin menu, so after 40 installs the sidebar is a junk drawer. A Core proposal wants hierarchy and pinning. Here is what I use in the meantime.
Products drift when nobody writes down what they stand for. How Dieter Rams’ principles helped me kill an upsell on a WooCommerce checkout, plus the workshop and the CSS variables I use to keep principles in the code.
The CSS shape function replaces the SVG and clip-path hacks used for wavy dividers and blob shapes. How the curve commands and control points work, and why a fixed command count is what lets the browser animate between two shapes.
Jetpack 15.6 lets you set the message and image per network instead of pushing one caption everywhere. Notes on the rebuilt preview modal, the sharing activity log, and the publicize filter that keeps certain post types off social.
DenseNet connects every layer to every later layer and stacks channels instead of summing them the way ResNet does. Why that helps with vanishing gradients, how bottleneck blocks and transition layers keep the tensors in check, and where the memory cost shows up in PyTorch.
Frontier models stack a huge symbolic layer on an absent physical base, what Peter Zakrzewski calls the inversion error. The case for an enactive floor and for treating state-space reversibility as a hard constraint instead of an alignment patch.
Most QML writeups skip past encoding. This one goes through basis, angle and amplitude encoding plus feature maps, and what each one costs you in qubits or circuit depth on current hardware.
SHAP adds roughly 30ms to every prediction, which is fine offline and useless in a live request. Here is the neuro-symbolic alternative I benchmarked at 0.89ms, plus the weight collapse problem you run into on the way there.
The AI Client and Connectors API change how plugins talk to an LLM in WordPress 7.0. Notes from the Dev Chat agenda, plus the PHP refactor from a hardcoded wp_remote_post call to a registered ability.
MCP lets an AI pull data out of Google Drive, read old repos and load BigQuery instead of just suggesting Python. Includes the 150GB log file one unattended loop produced, and why domain knowledge still decides the answer.