A self-healing data pipeline for broken vendor CSVs
A vendor changed a CSV delimiter at 2 AM and my nightly import died. Here is the try, heal, retry loop I built with Pandas, Pydantic and Tenacity so the pipeline handles that class of error itself.
Category: Development
Few-shot prompting for WordPress code you can ship
Zero-shot prompts make the model guess your coding standards. Feeding it two or three working examples from your own code gets output that matches your prefixes, namespaces and security patterns.
Gutenberg 22.4: pattern overrides and the font library
Gutenberg 22.4 merged 402 pull requests. The ones worth your time: pattern overrides for any block attribute that supports block bindings, and font library access for classic and hybrid themes.
Air quality data repositories, and the formats that break PHP
Where air quality data actually lives, from OpenAQ and the EPA feeds to Copernicus and NASA Earthdata, what NetCDF, COG and Parquet mean for a PHP stack, and a transient-based cache that keeps the fetch off every page load.
Customer churn prediction: the WooCommerce spending slope
Silent churn does not announce itself. Here is how to fit a linear trend to six months of a WooCommerce customer’s orders, read the spending slope, and act on a falling one while the customer is still buying.
A responsive hexagon grid without the CSS hacks
A honeycomb layout that keeps its geometry without floats, magic numbers or a JavaScript grid calculator. corner-shape handles the bevel, cos(30deg) sets the aspect ratio, and sibling-index() works out which rows need the half-item shift.
WooCommerce REST API caching lands in 10.5 as an experiment
WooCommerce 10.5 adds an experimental REST API cache built on the RestApiCache trait. Notes on wrapping a controller callback, the ETag and 304 handling, why you need Redis or Memcached, and the Nginx header quirk that breaks it.
WordCamp Asia 2026 lands in Mumbai from April 9 to 11
WordCamp Asia 2026 is set for Mumbai, April 9 to 11, at the Jio World Convention Centre, with more than 3,000 attendees expected. Notes on why the flagship event is worth the trip, what sponsorship pays for, and how the hallway track earns its keep.
How to keep remote work productivity up at home
Working from home strips out the structure an office gives you for free. Three habits that help: a desk used only for work, 25-minute focus blocks with short breaks, and naming your three must-do tasks before the day starts.
WordPress.com MCP integrations now run on OAuth 2.1
WordPress.com switched its MCP server to OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, so AI agents no longer need long-lived tokens pasted into a config file. What the code verifier protects against, and what an authorized agent can do on your site.