WordPress 7.0 drops PHP 7.2 and 7.3 support
WordPress 7.0 drops PHP 7.2 and 7.3 in April 2026 and makes 7.4 the minimum. What that means for older sites, why the project is doing it, and why 8.x is the version you actually want.
Category: Development
Why visual anomaly detection models fail in production
High AUROC on MVTecAD does not mean a model survives a production line. Notes on input resolution, center cropping, background masking, and where early stopping usually goes wrong.
Probabilistic multi-variant reasoning beats one-shot LLM code
An LLM hands you one confident answer and hides the trade-offs. Probabilistic multi-variant reasoning asks it for several options plus the ways each one fails, and leaves the decision with you.
RAG chunk size is the variable most people never tune
Small chunks lose context, medium chunks produce near identical similarity scores, large chunks are stable but noisy. How RAG chunk size affects retrieval, plus a PHP splitter that respects word boundaries.
Playground Blueprints: theme demos that run in the browser
A Blueprint turns a bare Playground instance into a real theme demo. Here is the WXR export, the GitHub media swap and the blueprint.json steps that get you there.
January 2026 wallpapers: a clean desktop to start the year
A new year is a decent excuse to refactor your desktop. Three picks from the January 2026 wallpaper collection, plus the CSS I use when an image like that becomes a hero background.
Reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning: proofs over vibes
Part 2 of the vibe proving series: how an RL loop built around a hard proof checker teaches a model to follow logic rules, and where it still falls over on nested proofs.
Why transformed probabilities need a Jacobian adjustment
Square a random variable and the probability density stretches with it. Here is why naive substitution integrates to 2.0 instead of 1, and how the Jacobian factor puts it back.
You can pivot your tech career without starting over
Feeling stale in your role? A tech career pivot usually means reusing what you already know rather than deleting it. Four common moves, plus what three people who made the switch had to say about it.
Why WordPress Core may drop the PHP filter extension
The latest dev chat turned into an argument over whether WordPress Core should require PHP’s filter extension. PHPMailer uses it today. Here is what that costs you on hosts that compiled PHP without it.