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Talk: Migrating the WordPress Community from Slack to Matrix

At the Matrix Community Summit 2023 that took place in September 2023, I gave a rather technical talk about our learnings regarding Migrating the WordPress Community from Slack to Matrix. The WP...

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OpenAI Text-to-Speech

It has been a somewhat interesting coincidence that I am currently without voice because of a cold, and OpenAI has just released some really good Text-to-Speech voices with their Create speech API. So...

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Book: Pull Requests and Code Review: Best Practices for Developers

The book Pull Requests and Code Review: Best Practices for Developers has been pointed out to me by my colleague Paulo Pinto, and I liked it. I always find it hard to express what a makes a good code...

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WordPress Tavern Jukebox #99 – Matthias Pfefferle on ActivityPub, WordPress...

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cll: Adding unix pipe support

Today I’ve added a little feature to my cll tool (which I renamed again but I think now I’ll stick to this) so that it can process stdin so that you can do stuff like this: echo 'a presentation about...

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Prototype: Create a Website from a Screenshot and Refine It, All in the Browser

I’ve been working on this experiment, combining OpenAI’s gpt-4-vision-preview with WordPress Playground to create a website based on a screenshot. This follows on the heels of Matt Mullenweg’s...

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Mastodon API Tester

tldr: Use the Mastodon API Tester to play with the Client API of Mastodon. I’ve created the WordPress plugin called Enable Mastodon Apps which does a seemingly small but powerful thing: it enables you...

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Keeping A Family Wiki

Members of my (some of them extended) family recently entered and left life, which is always an opportunity to think about my family. I’ve written before about my own efforts to keep family history in...

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My FOSDEM 2024 Talk: Migrating the WordPress Community from Slack to Matrix

When I submitted my application for a talk at FOSDEM 2024, we were still on for migrating the WordPress community to Matrix. Alas, there were many factors that led us to pause the transition...

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The Beauty of Simple Bookmarklets

Jeremy Keith posted about bookmarklets that he uses for testing websites where he specifically likes those that just pass on the current URL to a service. Those bookmarklets typically have a structure...

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