Beta 2 landed on February 26th and Beta 3 is due March 5th. The parts that matter for developers: blocks you can register in PHP alone, an iframed editor that isolates your CSS, and the handbook back in sync with Gutenberg 22.6.
WordPress 7.0 reworks DataViews and DataForm. The Field API gains a format property and adaptiveSelect, DataForm gets a native details layout with built-in validation, and groupByField becomes a groupBy object that breaks 6.9 view configs without warning.
WordPress 7.0 ships a native Breadcrumbs block, so the plugin can go. Two filters, block_core_breadcrumbs_items and block_core_breadcrumbs_post_type_settings, let you rewrite the trail and pick which taxonomy path wins when a post sits in several terms.
WordPress 6.9 introduces assertEqualHTML(), which tests HTML by comparing structure instead of literal text. It normalizes attributes, class names, and markup so your test suite survives minor formatting changes.
A 420-core Databricks cluster spent 10 hours on 18 partitions because the data was skewed. Here is how salting and liquid clustering fixed the distribution, and what each one is actually good for.
Context engineering means filling an AI model’s context window with your own domain knowledge, using structured graphs, deterministic tools, and persistent memory instead of simple RAG.
February was short but it made a few things obvious: solo work stalls ML projects, code is not documentation, and an MLOps stack that ignores the deployment environment never ships. Notes from a month of ML and backend work.
Coding Pong in Python is a solid way to practice OOP: inheritance for the ball, a compound check instead of distance() for paddle collisions, and a scoreboard class kept separate from the game logic.
WooCommerce 10.5.3 patches a path validation bug in the Store API batch endpoint that let attackers skip nonce checks and gain admin access via CSRF. Don’t roll back to 10.5.2; update now and test your checkout.
Ahmad Wael breaks down why overusing FILTER() in DAX forces work into Power BI’s slow, single-threaded Formula Engine, and how a simple predicate lets the Storage Engine (VertiPaq) handle it instead.