WordPress developer Ahmad Wael breaks down the January 2026 data platform and LLM trends. Learn how LLM optimization techniques like fused kernels and context engineering are replacing brute-force scaling. Discover why Databricks and Snowflake are hitting ceilings and how to use Claude Code effectively in your development workflow.
Publishing a VS Code extension is surprisingly complex, involving Azure DevOps PAT tokens and manifest strictness. In this pragmatic guide, Ahmad Wael shares war stories from the registry trenches, including workarounds for CLI login errors, manual VSIX packaging, and ensuring your theme’s README images actually load in the Marketplace and Open VSX.
A senior WordPress developer explains how to choose between combobox, multiselect, and listbox. Learn why your choice of UI selection components impacts accessibility, performance, and conversion rates. Includes a Gutenberg ComboboxControl refactoring example and best practices for managing large data sets in custom WordPress dashboards.
Distributed reinforcement learning is more than just parallelizing code; it is about solving the synchronization bottleneck. Learn why naive parallelism fails in real-world policy optimization and how to implement Actor-Learner architectures with V-trace for high-performance, asynchronous training that doesn’t melt your server infrastructure. Stop waiting for rollouts and start scaling.
Stop centralizing data and start collaborating. Senior developer Ahmad Wael explains why siloed models fail and how the Federated Learning Flower framework boosts accuracy from 65% to 96%. Learn the technical setup, from PyTorch integrations to message-based client-server coordination, and why this is the pragmatic choice for secure, scalable AI.
Learn how to build a Hand Gesture Mouse Control system in just 60 lines of Python. This guide uses OpenCV and MediaPipe to create a virtual interface, complete with a professional jitter-fix strategy. Ideal for accessibility projects and developers looking to refactor human-computer interaction models without expensive hardware.
Vibe coding—the practice of using AI to generate code via prompts—is skyrocketing productivity. However, it often leads to a technical debt hangover where developers lose ‘implementation intimacy’ with their own projects. Ahmad Wael explores why senior developers must maintain architectural ownership and vetting processes to avoid unmanageable codebases.
Ahmad Wael analyzes the WordPress 6.9 ‘Gene’ retrospective, focusing on the shift toward global triage leads, the urgent need for release automation, and the success of contributor pairing. Learn why the ‘plumbing’ of the WordPress 6.9 release matters more for site stability than new block features for senior developers.
WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is out to fix 49 bugs across Core and Gutenberg. From admin panel glitches to critical mail delivery failures, this maintenance release is essential for site stability. Senior developer Ahmad Wael breaks down the technical “gotchas” and shows you how to test the release safely using WP-CLI.
Stop obsessing over perfect covariate balance in your experiments. In this post, senior developer Ahmad Wael explains why randomization is the true key to validity, even when cohorts don’t look identical. Learn the technical reasons behind covariate imbalance and how to implement fast, valid randomization in your WordPress backend.