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  • The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS.

    I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from a self-proclaimed 20 year agency veteran of WordPress saying that was it, they’re moving the entire agency off of WordPress and onto AI. Now, because I, too, am a 20 year veteran of WordPress, this kind of story catches my attention. He posted that they…

  • Things I’ve learned from a year of doing circus

    It’s just about a full year since I finally gathered up the courage to don short shorts and tights, expose parts of my body that are so white you’d need sunglasses against the glare, and flip myself upside down using only the power of my actual human muscles. And I’m still here, still doing it.…

  • Disclosing AI use

    This is based on a thread that I posted to Bluesky that I decided to keep here for posterity. If you want to discuss on Bluesky, follow me at @jazzsequence.com and let’s chat. Let’s talk about AI. I’ve been using it a lot recently. It’s not that I don’t see or care about the environmental…

  • Yes, I am the (interim) President of The WPCC

    The cat is finally out of the bag. I was officially named Interim President of The WP Community Collective this week. When I joined The WPCC as a member last year, it was not too long after going to my first DrupalCon. DrupalCon Atlanta was enlightening for a lot of reasons. But most relevant to…

  • Gene

    I apologize in advance for this post which is going to be all over the place. Yesterday, the latest major version of WordPress was released. WordPress names each version after a jazz musician and this release was named after Gene Harris. Gene. But naming a piece of software that I have worked in and around…

  • WordCamp Canada, eh?

    Last week, I took my first trip to Canada for WordCamp Canada 2025 (WCEH). Anyone who follows me on social media, may have seen the video I recorded in anticipation of the trip. While sadly I didn’t do a lot of exploring, I had a number of takeaways from the event. Organization There have been…

  • What if AI slop had its own social network?

    I want to talk today about Sora 2 and the new Sora AI app. First of all, Sora is not new. OpenAI released Sora about a year ago initially and, at the time, it was a sort of hidden part of ChatGPT that let you make bad videos. And trust me, they were bad. I…

  • In defense of Wapuu

    Since WordCamp US this year, I’ve been making some cute shorts with the Wapuu I brought back home from Portland. I’ve made two so far to promote me going to BADCamp and WordCamp Canada. My thought is that, in my role as Developer Advocate, I kind of need a “personal brand” and be doing things…

  • The Lovecraft Test, Gemini 2.5-pro

    At the same time as I was fighting with GPT-5 to give me the thing I actually wanted, I also used the Gemini app and the access I have to pro-level Gemini models to do the Lovecraft test with 2.5-pro. Previously, I had only tested with Flash-2.0, so, not only should this be a more…

  • The Lovecraft Test, GPT-5

    GPT-5 is out now and I’ve only had a couple occasions to interact with it directly. So, I thought it was time to run it through the Lovecraft test. ChatGPT has adopted this quirk of late where, when it’s done answering your question or responding to your prompt, it says something to the effect of…