I tabbed out of a showModal() dialog into the address bar and assumed it was a bug. It is not. Why the W3C APA group dropped the strict focus trap, what showModal() handles for you, and the two mistakes that make focus leak.
Nominations for the WordPress 7.0 release squad are open until January 16, with the final release set for April 9, 2026. Here is the beta schedule and what the four lead roles actually involve.
Chrome 144 added the ::search-text pseudo-element, which finally lets you style find-in-page highlights. Relative color syntax keeps matches readable on dark themes and saturated backgrounds.
The WordPress 7.0 bug scrubs run twice a week from late January to April 8, moving from alpha triage to hunting regressions. Here are the dates, the Slack channels, and what it takes to lead a session.
WordPress 6.9 ships the DataForm component, so a settings page can be declared as configuration instead of a stack of PanelBody components. Field definitions, card layouts, and wiring the form up to the REST API.
WordPress AI Experiments 0.2.0 adds AI-generated excerpts in the block editor and an Abilities Explorer screen under Tools. Here is what the release changes for plugin developers, plus the code for registering your own ability.
Prediction models find patterns; they do not tell you what an action will cause. This post walks through the causal toolkit for that: potential outcomes, DAGs, de-biasing with OLS, propensity matching, and difference-in-differences.
Firefox Nightly has a flag for @custom-media, the at-rule that lets you alias a media query behind a name and reuse it. Notes on what it fixes, how Open Props packages ready-made queries, and how to write the syntax today with postcss-custom-media.
Cursor’s indexer is a RAG pipeline: tree-sitter splits code at logical boundaries, embeddings land in Turbopuffer, and Merkle trees keep the index in sync. Here is how the pieces fit together, and what actually leaves your machine.
For a docs bot or an internal MVP, a dedicated vector database is more infrastructure than the problem needs. Vector search is matrix multiplication, and NumPy handles it in milliseconds. Includes a small store class, the SciKit-Learn upgrade path, and the four signs you have outgrown both.