WebAssembly in the Browser: compile C and run it
Run C code in the browser with WebAssembly, no local toolchain required. This walkthrough uses GitHub Codespaces and Emscripten to compile and run your first WASM app, then wires it to JavaScript.
Tag: APIs
Why WordPress 7.0 RTC was pulled
WordPress 7.0 RTC has been pulled from the release. Race conditions and TTFB regressions from bypassed persistent caching drove the call, and RC3 now moves back toward a beta state while the core team focuses on stability.
How I built a persistent Claude Code knowledge base
How I stopped re-explaining my projects to Claude every session. I keep a persistent knowledge base built from CLAUDE.md rules and a custom skill, and a nightly cron job keeps it current.
WooCommerce REST API now rejects invalid order IDs
In WooCommerce 10.8 the REST API stops silently turning non-order IDs, like subscriptions, into plain orders. It now returns a 400 instead. Here is what breaks and how to route subscription requests correctly.
Batch or stream: choosing a WordPress data processing strategy
Not every task needs to run in real time. Here is how I decide between batch and stream for a WordPress data processing strategy, and how Action Scheduler keeps heavy WooCommerce work off the checkout path.
Apache Flink architecture for real-time WordPress data
How Apache Flink treats batch as a special case of streaming, and how to wire a WooCommerce store into a Flink pipeline for real-time recommendations instead of nightly cron jobs.
How local-first web development actually works
Why I went local-first after an app died on hotel Wi-Fi: keep data on the device with SQLite in the browser, sync in the background, and resolve conflicts without overwriting what users typed.
AI agent security and the four attack surfaces
The four places an autonomous agent gets attacked (prompt, tools, memory, and the planning loop) and how to lock down a WordPress and PHP backend with least privilege, schema validation, and reasoning logs.
Why supply chain data silos leave shelves empty
A fashion retailer updated a forecast on a Tuesday and the supply team saw it eleven days later, after the factory lead time had expired. Here is where that delay comes from and what integrated business planning changes about it.
LLM engineering for WordPress developers, beyond the wrapper
Plugging in the OpenAI API is not engineering. Notes on what actually matters when you build LLM features on WordPress: token costs, attention limits, RAG over fine-tuning, and keeping a 30-second API call from taking down PHP-FPM.