WordPress 7.0 development is moving forward with a major decision: officially dropping support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3. Senior developer Ahmad Wael breaks down why this modernization matters for security and performance, explores the new PHP filter extension debate, and shares how to prepare your codebase for the future of WordPress.
The January 2026 WordPress Performance chat revealed major shifts for the upcoming 7.0 release. Highlights include changing Speculative Loading’s default eagerness to “moderate,” resolving Admin View Transition bugs, and fixing modern image format issues in core. Learn how these updates impact your site’s LCP and server load.
Ahmad Wael explores why GraphRAG for Developers is the key to building cost-efficient, high-recall retrieval systems. Moving beyond vanilla RAG, this post covers the importance of data contracts, schema validation in PHP, and production lessons from the December TDS newsletter to ensure your WordPress AI integrations remain stable and scalable.
Stop fitting straight lines to curved data. This guide explains why Scikit-Learn’s SplineTransformer is superior to polynomial regression for handling non-linear trends. Learn to avoid Runge’s Phenomenon, implement B-spline pipelines, and use periodic extrapolation for cyclical data like seasonal sales or daily demand. Professional advice for building stable, production-ready machine learning models.
Stop shipping AI agents blindly. Ahmad Wael explains how to use the NeMo Agent Toolkit (NAT) to implement deep observability and trajectory evaluation. Learn to use Arize Phoenix and W&B Weave to identify bottlenecks, compare model performance, and ensure your LLM applications are production-ready through data-driven metrics.
Stop wasting time re-typing repetitive AI prompts. Learn how to leverage Slash Commands in tools like Cursor and Claude Code to automate WordPress development, from scaffolding unit tests to analyzing debug logs. Senior dev Ahmad Wael shares his “Golden Prompts” for building a faster, more consistent technical workflow.
The Penpot MCP server experiment marks a major shift in AI-powered design workflows. By leveraging the Model Context Protocol, Penpot provides a secure, structured bridge for LLMs like Claude to interact with real design data. This senior dev’s take explores why design-expressed-as-code is the only way to eliminate AI hallucinations and technical debt.
Ahmad Wael breaks down the spectrum of PostgreSQL insert strategies in Python. From the abstraction-heavy SQLAlchemy ORM to the raw power of Psycopg3’s COPY command, learn which tool fits your workload. Includes benchmarks and refactoring tips to avoid common database bottlenecks and memory leaks in high-volume data ingestion.
HNSW Recall Degradation is a silent killer in scaling RAG systems. As vector databases grow, retrieval quality drops even when latency remains stable, leading to LLM hallucinations. Learn why you must tune ef_search and use hybrid retrieval architectures to maintain context quality in production WordPress AI applications.
Stop guessing and start solving. Explore how Advent of Code 2025 problems like Tachyon Manifolds and Factory Optimization reveal the importance of Algorithmic Thinking in Data Science. Learn to use MILP, Union-Find, and Dynamic Programming to build enterprise-grade logic that scales without crashing your execution stack.