Creativity, curiosity, and code
This episode of This American Life is amazing. It has several parts and looks at artificial intelligence from a number of different creative angles. There’s fascinating stories of how people become convinced of the “intelligence” of ChatGPT. There’s a short story that reverses the roles and tries to see how intelligent machines might question the […]
The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.
The experimental "command center" is coming to WordPress core. What do I think of it? And what does it mean for my own "command palette" product, Turbo Admin?
WOW! I made a properly "magic method" WordPress plugin that allows you to just write a function name, and have that function created for you by an AI. It just works! (Some of the time).
Turbo Admin 1.12.0 is a big release with better search, improved reliability, user and plugins search and integrations for WooCommerce and Gravity Forms. Phew!
There are a ton of posts about Mastodon. But perhaps you trust me more than other random strangers? Here's my take.
I’m FINALLY getting around to chipping away at Turbo Admin's next steps. But how do I make "frameworky" things in JavaScript?
If you follow me on socials, you might think that I really didn’t enjoy my holiday… But it’s not really true. We had a great time. I think that, as I relax and unwind, and the adrenaline that’s been keeping everything at bay dissipates, and the major life stuff is put aside, things come crashing […]
There was some interesting chatter a while ago in my tech social bubbles about the tiny decline in WordPress’s CMS market share. This was followed by some interesting Twitter replies. But I chose to pick up on my friend Keith Devon’s response: And it caused me to reflect on how I now build small/quick sites […]
I confess, while I have my CS degree and am well-read, I've never read many of the "classics": Clean Code, Refactoring, The Pragmatic Programmer. So with Sandi Metz's "99 Bottles of OOP" on offer, I thought I'd make a start there.