This is a post I originally wrote internally at Human Made, but I think is worth sharing publicly. Both in private repositories and in open source repositories, there’s been a huge rise in the use of AI as LLMs have become more powerful. While many of us are using AI constantly to write code (myself […]

Ever since we first created the FAIR Project, it was designed to be a project following the best practices for open source projects. We’ve had the privilege of working with the Linux Foundation to help set it up. One of the core principles of how we designed the project was to separate the “business” side […]

The events in the WordPress community since September have shown how fragile the ecosystem can be. In A Stronger Foundation for the Ecosystem, I laid out my core ideas of how we could move forward with the WordPress Foundation to build a better community together. The key ideas were: Despite best efforts to engage on […]

Every day, I open my computer in to Slack. The first thing I see, every day, is the WordPress Slack icon reporting a problem. Every day, I click the icon and log in through WordPress.org, to be told that my Slack account is still disabled. Although I can no longer access Slack, I am still […]

The feud between Automattic and WP Engine has continued, with WordPress.org blocking access by WP Engine’s servers. In WP Engine Must Win, I wrote about my thoughts on the legal argument on this battle, and why it is important that WP Engine win the trademark case in order to protect the ecosystem. I also touched on the moral argument: The case […]

On stage at WordCamp US last week, Matt Mullenweg gave a keynote presentation which made a wide range of points about contribution, the ethics of open source, and the commitments various companies make to contributing. In particular, he called out WP Engine in what was a fairly clear direction to the community to stop using […]

Electron has a few different ways to embed web content safely into an existing window. The standard technique is to use a regular iframe, but this doesn’t give you all the power you might need over user content; notably, you don’t get full control over the will-navigate event for user navigation. The documentation notes that […]

In the spirit of Dan Abramov’s Overreacted blog, where he deep-dives into React on his personal blog, I thought I’d do the same for WordPress. If there’s something you’d like to see, let me know! Since WordPress 1.0, WordPress has supported “pretty permalinks”; that is, human-readable permalinks. This system is built for a lot of […]

As we approach the State of the Word 2017 at WordCamp US, I think this is a good time to look back on the state of the REST API project and core focus over the last year. 2017 has been an interesting year for the REST API with highs and lows, and periods of intense […]

Requests 1.7 is now available with a tonne of changes. Here’s some of the highlights: Add support for HHVM and PHP 7: Requests is now tested against both HHVM and PHP 7, and they are supported as first-party platforms. Transfer & connect timeouts, in seconds & milliseconds Rework cookie handling to be more thorough: Cookies […]