While Calendar-Based Time Intelligence simplifies many DAX calculations, it isn’t a complete replacement for custom logic, especially in complex enterprise models. Ahmad Wael explores the performance trade-offs between standard functions and optimized custom patterns like Row Ranks for moving averages in Power BI.
The WordPress PHP AI Client SDK v0.1.0 has officially launched, marking a major milestone for Core-AI. This provider-agnostic SDK standardizes how we integrate LLMs into plugins and themes, moving away from fragmented API calls. Senior dev Ahmad Wael breaks down why this technical foundation is critical for future-proofing your WordPress AI projects.
Healthcare leads in the use of knowledge graphs because it treats data as an ontology, not just a record. Driven by empirical science, strict regulations, and open W3C standards, their semantic infrastructure is decades ahead. Learn how shared vocabularies and layered structures prevent the ‘Schema-less Rot’ common in modern web development.
WordPress AI Experiments 0.2.0 has been released, introducing AI-powered excerpt generation and a new “Abilities Explorer” for developers. Ahmad Wael explains why this release is a critical step toward standardizing AI within WordPress Core, moving beyond simple chatbots to a robust framework for registering and testing AI-powered editorial abilities.
In the fast-moving world of CSS, keeping up with updates is a major challenge. Ahmad Wael explains why the new DailyDev Squad for CSS-Tricks is a strategic tool for developers. Learn how to move from messy RSS firehoses to curated, high-signal content feeds that streamline your frontend development workflow and discovery process.
The WordPress 6.9.1 release is officially scheduled for February 3, 2026. This bug-fix-only maintenance release aims to resolve regressions and stability issues introduced in the 6.9 cycle. With a series of bug scrubs planned throughout late January, site owners and developers should prepare for this essential update to restore core site stability.
Code refactoring in Cursor is a game-changer for senior developers managing technical debt. Learn a pragmatic 4-step framework—from planning with agentic conversations to executing with Claude 3.5 Sonnet—to transform messy legacy WordPress code into clean, class-based architectures without breaking your production environment. Stop shipping spaghetti and start orchestrating your code.
Standard topic modeling is dead. Between junk topics and massive compute costs, throwing raw data at LDA just doesn’t cut it anymore. Ahmad Wael explains how to use Seeded KeyNMF and LLM-assisted summarization to build stable, transparent, and economically viable NLP pipelines that actually deliver meaningful business insights in 2026.
Ahmad Wael explains why package installs crawl and how sharded indexing (CEP-16) solves the metadata bloat problem. Learn how to optimize your build times and reduce memory consumption by moving away from monolithic indexes to a more scalable, parallelized approach used by modern package managers.
Stop wasting billable hours on Nginx configs and server patches. In this guide, I explain why Managed Hosting is the pragmatic choice for serious WordPress developers, covering server-level caching, security at the edge, and the technical debt of DIY server management. Learn how to optimize for stability and ROI.