SmashingConf Amsterdam runs in April 2026 at the Pathé Tuschinski. What pulled me in is the live-work format: speakers working through CSS and accessibility problems on stage instead of walking an audience through finished slides.
np.fft is not a black box you have to live with. This walks through the winding machine picture of Fourier transform sound analysis, the center of mass calculation behind magnitude and phase, and why Euler’s formula shows up instead of a plain sine wave.
Bayesian work hands you densities you cannot integrate or invert. Metropolis-Hastings samples them anyway, with a random walk and an acceptance ratio that cancels the normalization constant. Includes the NumPy implementation and the three ergodicity conditions.
WordPress is looking for volunteers on the Twenty Twenty-Seven default theme, which ships with 7.2 in December 2026. What the work actually involves, why the schedule is tight, and how a core theme differs from any client build.
Vector infrastructure gets expensive fast: 100 million 1024-dimensional float32 vectors need over 1.2TB of RAM. Pairing Matryoshka truncation with int8 quantization cuts storage by roughly 80%, and this post covers where the savings stop and recall starts to break.
WordPress 7.0 adds a watch() function to the Interactivity API for side effects that do not belong to a single DOM element, and the router store now gets state.url from the server, so the undefined guards can go. Two navigation properties are deprecated along the way.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 3 keeps the AI client in core small and pushes the providers out to plugins: Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are on the repository already, with Ollama being prepped. Plus where the MCP adapter is going and what AI Experiments 0.5.0 drops.
Chromium ships corner-shape, so beveled and scooped corners no longer need clip-path or SVG masks. What each value does, how it pairs with border-radius, and how to ship it behind @supports while Firefox and Safari get plain rounded corners.
WooCommerce 10.6 is mostly maintenance: SQL fixes in the admin, lazy loading on by default for the Product Image block, and two changes that can break custom breadcrumbs and headless Store API calls.
A live panel on March 31, 2026 with Amber Hinds, Mary Hubbard and Raquel Manriquez, on finding collaborators instead of solving everything alone. Plus a small transient wrapper so an upcoming events widget stops hitting an API on every page load.