Reading up on WordPress
9 deep · digging since nov 21, 25
- Matt Mullenweg Assembles Trusted Group to Overhaul WordPress.org and Five for the Future
Matt Mullenweg created a #meta-janitors channel giving a trusted group direct production access to overhaul WordPress.org and the Five for the Future program without team approval.
- AI rewards strict APIs
Strict APIs with typed interfaces and validated schemas give AI agents tight feedback loops, reducing debugging and token costs, while loose APIs create ambiguity that slows agents down.
- The end of responsive images - Piccalilli
The new `sizes="auto"` HTML attribute, combined with `loading="lazy"`, lets browsers automatically determine the best image size to request, eliminating the need for manual `sizes` calculations.
- WordPress Everywhere
WordPress Playground now runs a full WordPress instance in-browser via WebAssembly, radically expanding where and how WordPress can be deployed.
- Just a moment...
WordPress.org now serves every page as Markdown via header or parameter, aiming to improve AI agent consumption and establish itself as a canonical knowledge source.
- Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap
AI-assisted coding lowers barriers to creation but risks shipping poorly-built products unless teams pair it with deliberate system design.
- 30 years of <br> tags
A retrospective on 30 years of web development, tracing the evolution from CGI scripts to modern frameworks, concluding the state of web development in 2025 is vastly improved.
- Messing with scraper bots
A developer built a Markov chain babbler in Rust to generate fake PHP files, feeding malicious scrapers junk data to waste their resources.