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Core Updates, Development

WordPress 7.0 development: a new toolkit and a privacy gap

The Core Dev Environment Toolkit gives contributors a one-click wordpress-develop setup. The less good news: the core privacy component has nobody maintaining it, two PRs are waiting on review, and the 7.0 release schedule still has not landed.

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Core Updates, Development

The WordPress documentation overhaul, and the parser behind it

Nearly 800 documentation issues triaged and over 200 closed, plus the WP-Parser problem that keeps DevHub out of sync with core. Also the DocBlock format the parser expects, and the three handbooks carrying the biggest backlogs.

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AI, Development

3D generative modeling for Minecraft worlds with VQ-VAE

A walkthrough of the VQ-VAE plus transformer pipeline I use for Minecraft world generation, including codebook resets for dead embeddings and weighted cross-entropy for blocks that barely show up in the data.

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AI, Development

Model drift: why your model gets worse after deploy

Models decay in production because the world keeps moving and the training snapshot does not. How data drift and concept drift differ, and the monitoring I use to catch both before a stakeholder does.

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Development

Astro MDX integration: components inside your Markdown

What the Astro MDX integration is actually good for, the two patterns I use in production, and the two places it bites: formatters mangling JSX, and the RSS package refusing to render MDX.

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AI, Development

RAG conflict resolution: good retrieval, wrong answers

Retrieval can work perfectly and still hand the model two documents that contradict each other. A conflict detection layer, the two heuristics that catch most enterprise cases, and cluster-aware recency for resolving them.

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AI, AI in WordPress, Bug Fixing, Development

LLM generated code: the WordPress debt it leaves behind

Asking a chatbot for a WooCommerce snippet is a lever pull, and the losing pulls are the hard ones to spot. Where LLM generated code breaks WordPress sites, what it does to coding standards, and why per-token pricing makes it worse.

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Development, E-commerce Development

What a p-value actually means for your A/B tests

A p-value is closer to a weirdness score than a probability that you are right. Here is how to read one, why the 0.05 threshold is arbitrary, and how to sanity-check sample size before you act on an A/B test.

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Development

Distributed computing lessons from a €200M supercomputer

MareNostrum V is 8,000 nodes sitting in a Barcelona chapel, and getting code to run on it means SLURM time slots, airgapped storage and Amdahl’s Law. Here is what that setup teaches about scaling anything smaller.

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Core Updates, Development, E-commerce Development

WooCommerce 10.7 cuts HPOS order queries roughly in half

WooCommerce 10.7 drops HPOS order REST queries from 271 to 132, ships a beta Order Fulfillments API with typed methods, caches the Store API Last-Modified timestamp, and stops sanitization from eating % signs in gateway passwords.

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