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I still read the codeoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Don’t use your chatbot to communicateoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
TAI;DRoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
From social media to the open web for teens worldwideoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
A simplified Site Editor in WordPressoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Death by a thousand small decisionsoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
Conduits in the Communityoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
I’m back: Returning to Automatticoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
Be embarrassed againoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
Why “quick” code reviews are hurting you and your teamoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2026

2025

The cost of synchronous meetingsoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
Make change cheaper: Making a new engineering job less drainingoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2025
Five years at Automattic: A goodbyeoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
Tracking Record Divergence with Content Hashingoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Write less, not more: Where time is really saved with AI assisted writingoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
An overview of basic cryptographic conceptsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
Localised content in a VPN-first worldoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2025
Building the Block Hooks API: My WordPress core experienceoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2025
The hidden cost of AI relianceoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2025
How to make your WooCommerce additional checkout fields conditionally visible in the Checkout Blockoriginal ↗
30 May 2025
How to add additional fields to the WooCommerce Checkout Blockoriginal ↗
30 May 2025
My thoughts on the future of the web in the world of AIoriginal ↗
27 May 2025
How Engineers Slow Their Team Down, Rubber Ducking and a Hidden CSS Performance Gem – Surf Report, Issue #6original ↗
21 Apr 2025
The Marathon of Software Engineeringoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2025
Reacts Reconciliation Engine, Turning Clarity into Chaos and Repairing Whats Broken – Surf Report, Issue #5original ↗
14 Apr 2025
Tracing the Thoughts of an LLM, Code Reviews, Speed vs Efficiency and More – Surf Report, Issue #4original ↗
7 Apr 2025
A Performant Way To Batch Delete Transient Data in WordPressoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2025
MCP Explained, WP 6.8 iAPI Best Practices, LLM Assisted Large-Scale Test Migration and More – Surf Report, Issue #3original ↗
31 Mar 2025
Why You Should Start Writing DocBlock Comments More in Your Codebaseoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2025
2025 React Trends, Get Comfortable Being Wrong, Feelings on TDD and More – Surf Report, Issue #2original ↗
24 Mar 2025
Helping New Engineers Get Up To Speedoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2025
Compound AI Systems, WPUI, WordPress’ useSelect Hook and More – Surf Report, Issue #1original ↗
17 Mar 2025
QuickSort: The Clever Sorting Algorithmoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2025
How I Use AI in My Day-to-Day as a Software Engineeroriginal ↗
24 Feb 2025
Understanding the Halting Problemoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2025
WooCommerce 9.7: Fixing Variable Products Going Out of Stockoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2025
Script to Convert CSV to Github Issuesoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025

2024

Refactoring Product Context Block Registration in WooCommerceoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2024
LLMs Will Supercharge Open Source Projects Like WordPress and WooCommerceoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2024
Cache 22: The Importance of Validating Transient Dataoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2024
Introducing New UI Features vs Stability in WooCommerceoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2024
Setting up wordpress-develop and Gutenberg repositories locallyoriginal ↗
23 May 2024
Tech newsletters I subscribe tooriginal ↗
14 Mar 2024
Working at Automattic as a Software Engineeroriginal ↗
7 Feb 2024
Block Hooks API & The Core Navigation Blockoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2024
Working remotely in the Canary Islands during the UK winteroriginal ↗
24 Jan 2024
Block Hooks API: Understanding ignoredHookedBlocks logicoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2024
The best WordPress plugin for code syntax highlightingoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2024
Enabling Xdebug with WordPress core and VSCodeoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2024
Storing and querying database entries based on locationoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2024

2023

Install PostGIS with Docker on your Remix stackoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2023