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The perfect app for an AI to do for you is a demo app. Yesterday I wrote about making WordPress boom with new apps for writers that run in the web ecosystem, not as plug-ins, in JS running in the browser, or on the desktop, any desktop, that would work too. Probably would be...

if you find yourself wondering “what does ege listen to on repeat these days” i got you fam:

Tracing. Wait, what? It's too easy to develop agentic apps, or use coding agents to help you with stuff. Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI and many more that I forgot to mention are popular for a reason. These coding agents would report how many tokens a...

Ways are a slash pages format for documenting processes, workflows, and procedures. They are designed to be easy to read and follow, on how to do things. They happen to include a link to the official manual or service where possible, but there should be enough detail to foll...

What’s Changed Fix: Added to and improved RSS feeds, Chore: Switched from collections to post type front matter Fear: Added post type archive pages Feat: ingest feeds for YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky to data pages Feat: add support for IndieNews webmentions [ImgB...

New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end. Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage. Recruit devs to create products for this environment. Anything that might require text editing is a good idea. Gutenberg will be one of these editors. I will provide W...

A night at 1200 Postcards (that’s not me DJing) It’s been a strangely busy past few weeks, to the point where I’m not entirely sure where all my time disappear...

It’s this time of the year again. I’ve recently set up this little page, and I really didn’t want it to be on Github or hosted by Github Pages.

Interesting, might be worth some to go on the garden shed. Plug-in panels do not require installation, so the only upfront cost is the purchase. Panels are currently on the market from about £400. The Government estimates that a typical UK home could save £70 to £110 ...

I’ve been continuing to work on the modern testing infrastructure so I can make sure the RSS Cloud plugin for WordPress is up to date. The maintainer rightfully wants to keep it as simple as possible, so I want to respect his wishes. The default settings for PHPCS (linting) for WordPress Coding Standards would change […]

This lovely diadem is a little bit of a mystery as far as who its maker is but it is a lovely and unusual piece of wearable art!

Here are the some of the Firefox changes I do every time, so I don't forget them in the future. I'll probably update this list if I stumble upon some other useful flags.

Bookmarks

Keep bookmarks menu open

browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu = false

Open bookmarks in background

I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it. You can decide what that means. I've had several friends...

If you need a Project Manager/Program Manager/Scrum Master who knows how to use AI as a tool and to focus on being the PM/SM who brings leadership, judgement, and human connection to the role, then I am your man.Latest Resume: Marius-Bock-Resume.pdf

Jailbreaking may violate the terms of service of your device but may keep it out of landfill. Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will “no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or downl...

Hacker News isn't a software masterpiece. All the pieces have to be there to make something as real as HN happen. As with Craig's List, Markdown, HTML, WordPress, RSS 2.0, Lotus 1-2-3 and of course these are just some of the building blocks of the tech stack we use today many years later. A press release does not count as validation.

The president of the United States is spinning around acting like a NYC real estate jumbo who accidentally was elected president and after only five years in office has realized a whole new level of trolling. It started with cable news, then went to Twitter, then masked Amer...

An open-source MCP server that gives AI assistants access to real-time US weather data from seven sources, enabling grounded meteorological reasoning.

On the flip side to Terry Godier’s recent post about the (body) language of communication, where the time is on the creation. People need time on receipt to understand, contemplate, and act. If the outcome is to act and the action is to reply, then the clock restarts. For p...

I recommend this post on vibe coding.

There's a lot more to development than coding.

I've tried vibe coding myself, and while it's sometimes relaxing and fun, it's pretty hard to get the output to match what you had in mind.

I think people find it amazing that they can create code, not just that the machine can create it. I know what that's like because I get a rush from creating images, something I never had a skill for, so all of a sudden being able to express myself with drawings was a breakthrough for me. ;-)

I've spent a few decades making commercial quality software in a variety of contexts, and so far I wouldn't rush to get rid of my dev teams based on the idea that the bots can do their work.

I think more realistically we have powerful new tools that we as yet have not learned how to use, but it's pretty exciting to see what may be possible.