March 11, 2025
AI: Overhyped & Under appreciated
For a while now, I've thought that AI is both overhyped and under appreciated. It's a dangerous cocktail, because it is both easy to dismiss AI and to over invest in it. Yes, we are in a bubble. AND Yes, DeepMind basically solved Protein folding with AI. LLMs plug into this landscape almost too neatly. One aspect where I see this clear...
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October 9, 2024
WordPress must be forked
WordPress must be forked. And there is only one reason: Matt’s current decisions are toxic to WordPress. The fork should change only one thing: The governance structure. Nothing else! No changes to code strategy, no changes to how WordCamps work, no changes to anything else. Only the governance must be changed. We must create a carbon ...
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August 9, 2023
Django signals are a better version of WordPress hooks
When trying to upgrade your WordPress developer skills you might run into the Human Made engineering handbook. On the page about modularity is says: "Actions and filters are actually an implementation of the Mediator pattern, and mediating between different parts of code is where hooks truly shine". I love that take. What I don't love ...
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August 8, 2023
Django gotcha: Migrations
I've recently been learning Django framework and I'm really impressed. Compared to Ruby on Rails I find it more purist, however less beautiful. There is one gotcha that now got me twice, so I should probably write about it. Whereas in RoR you create migrations by running `rails g migration`, in Django you change your models and then ru...
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