Release Date: May 20, 2026 — The most anticipated WordPress release in years is almost here. Let's explore everything you need to know before it lands. WordPress powers over 43% of the web. That's not a typo. Nearly half of every website you've ever visited runs on this open-source CMS. And yet, for much of 2025, things went oddly quiet — legal battles, contributor walkouts, and a compressed relea
TL;DR Bots passed humans on the open web. IP reputation feeds stopped working for residential traffic. IPv4 prices collapsed. AI crawlers became a measurable tax on public sites. And Europe finally started writing big GDPR checks while only fining 1.3% of complaints. If you ship anything that touches the public web at scale, the IP infrastructure you set up in 2022 is doing more harm than good i
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React after a fruitless search through third-party component libraries, npm packages and even GitHub repositories. A complex component needs requirements around all aspects of the component, and this article begins the process of defining those requirements. Note: This article is one of a series demonstrat
I have used AI in two very different contexts. First, I used AI to build an OSS project largely by myself. Second, I applied AI to brownfield development inside an organization. In the second case, I did not use AI only for code generation. I used AI across a much wider part of the development process: source code design documents implementation plans test specifications test cases release procedu
A few months ago I started with a simple goal: have a solid, reusable base for my PHP projects without pulling in a full framework every time. What I ended up with is something I'm genuinely proud of, and today I'm making it public. php-template is a PHP 8.2 MVC starter template with serious tooling, full testing stack, and something I haven't seen in other PHP templates: native support for AI age
Metric Value Django Average Response Time 287ms Node.js Average Response Time 193ms Django Memory Usage (1000 users) 1.8GB We tested Django 4.2 and Node.js 18.16 under identical conditions to measure their performance for reporting dashboard workloads. The test environment consisted of AWS EC2 m5.2xlarge instances (8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM) running Ubuntu 22.04. Both frameworks connected to th
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Hook: WebsitePublisher.ai is a pre-configured Directory Connector in Mistral's curated MCP connector directory. That's a mouthful, so let me break it down: Le Chat users can now find us in their connector settings, click Add, complete OAuth, and immediately start building websites through conversation. Key points to cover: What a Directory Connector is vs Custom Connector OAuth 2.1 + DCR auto-disc