Bookmarklets still solve small browser problems faster than installing an extension. How to wrap one in an IIFE, why you should URL-encode it, editing the CSSOM instead of injecting a style tag, and what Content Security Policy does to all of it.
Nested loops don’t scale for scheduling and resource allocation. This post shows how graph coloring, using Python’s GCol library and NetworkX, solves these NP-hard problems without turning your backend logic into a mess.
Popover API and Dialog API solve different problems: one is for light non-modal UI, the other for true modals that block the page. This post breaks down when to use each, with working code.
WordPress 6.9 introduces assertEqualHTML(), which tests HTML by comparing structure instead of literal text. It normalizes attributes, class names, and markup so your test suite survives minor formatting changes.
WordPress 7.0’s AI updates are heading into Beta 2. This post covers the pivot away from the Abilities API, the new Connector Screen, and the dependency issues in the AI Experiments plugin.
A 420-core Databricks cluster spent 10 hours on 18 partitions because the data was skewed. Here is how salting and liquid clustering fixed the distribution, and what each one is actually good for.
Interop 2026 is the browser pact making CSS Anchor Positioning, View Transitions, and scroll-driven animations a baseline reality. Here is what it means for WordPress developers still relying on JS hacks.
Context engineering means filling an AI model’s context window with your own domain knowledge, using structured graphs, deterministic tools, and persistent memory instead of simple RAG.
The Popover API gives WordPress developers a native, declarative way to build accessible tooltips and menus, without the JavaScript libraries and manual ARIA syncing tooltips used to require.
February was short but it made a few things obvious: solo work stalls ML projects, code is not documentation, and an MLOps stack that ignores the deployment environment never ships. Notes from a month of ML and backend work.