Part 2 of the SageMaker vs Azure ML series, this time on compute. Azure keeps clusters as persistent workspace assets while SageMaker spins them up per job and tears them down after, plus spot instances, checkpointing and container control.
loc selects by label, iloc by position, and their slicing rules disagree: loc includes the stop value, iloc excludes it. Here is when I use each one, plus the duplicate-index case where loc quietly breaks a model.
Separate repos for the React frontend and the WordPress backend are why payloads drift out of sync. Notes on moving to a monorepo with Roots Bedrock, keeping an AGENTS.md map of endpoints for coding agents, and the stale REST cache that broke a checkout.
The WordPress Foundation, UIC and Automattic are running a paid micro-credential pilot called AI Leaders: 80 students in Illinois and Louisiana, a $1,000 stipend, and real WordPress AI work instead of prompt-writing exercises. Here is what that changes for hiring.
WooCommerce 10.5 was due on February 3, 2026 and did not ship. Removing the AccessiblePrivateMethods trait looked risky enough in testing that the team left it in, with a status update set for February 4 at 12pm UTC.
Freshly Pressed is back in the WordPress.com Reader, with people picking the posts instead of an engagement score. If you are self-hosted, that only helps once your Jetpack sync is actually working, so here is what to check.
Chat history arrays are a log, not memory. This walks through the LLM memory layer I build instead: DSPy signatures for extracting atomic facts, QDrant for per-user vector storage, and a maintenance agent that decides when an old fact gets updated or deleted.
The February 4, 2026 dev chat put client-side media on the road to WordPress 7.0: libvips compiled to WASM, running in a worker thread, with image resizing done in the visitor’s browser instead of on your server.
The WP AI Client merge proposal would put a provider-agnostic AI API in WordPress 7.0: one PHP interface, a fluent prompt builder, WP_Error returns, and no outbound calls until a plugin configures a provider.
Notes from the WordPress performance chat: bridging classic scripts with script modules for the CodeMirror upgrade, memoizing wp_normalize_path, and why Copilot kept reintroducing a PCRE bug that had already been fixed.