A store you can launch in an hour is fine for a prototype. For a real business, the shipping zones, tax classes, asset loading and payment webhooks you set up on day one decide how much refactoring you do later.
Binary churn flags tell you that a user left but say nothing about the timing. This post covers discrete time-to-event modeling: why fixed intervals fit WordPress data, how right censoring skews a model, and a small PHP function for hazard rates.
LangChain is fine for a prototype. Once there is real traffic, several agents coordinating and a pager attached, the abstraction costs more than it saves. This is the case for writing the orchestration layer yourself.
WordPress wants to build Block Editor Handbook pages straight from block.json at build time. That would kill doc drift and give core blocks a reference that matches the code you are actually running.
Manual regression testing was my bottleneck, so I automated it. This covers wp-env setup, Playwright with the WordPress test utils, and testing block variations and meta bindings without clicking through the editor.
Hard-coded constants assume a perfect environment. This covers four ways to model uncertainty, from robust optimization to two-stage recourse, and refactors a fixed cron batch size into one that reacts to load.
CSS has a hypot() function that does Pythagorean distance math and, unlike pow(), accepts units like px and rem. I cover what it returns, a cursor-proximity example using container style queries, and the edge cases worth knowing.
One ballot label counted as two parties made English local elections look like they were splintering. The fix was normalizing party families before aggregation instead of after, and the headline finding reversed once we did.
Appending text to a container is the easy part. This post covers the scroll flag that stops snap-back, batching renders to keep layout shift down, ARIA live regions for screen readers, and cleaning up after a broken stream.
Notes on the newer platform features: HTML-in-Canvas behind a Chrome flag, the CSS content property for swapping an image source, sizes=auto for lazy-loaded images, and why e-ink browsers still lag behind.