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The legacy widget block preserves what it cannot convert

NoteJuly 20, 20212 min read

A registered widget with no block equivalent renders inside a legacy widget block, which keeps it working and keeps it visible as unfinished. Hiding from the picker while…

theme.json is a contract between a theme and the editor

Deep diveJuly 5, 202110 min read

5.8 in July, and a settings file that replaces a hundred lines of add_theme_support plus a stylesheet arguing with the editor.

Two hundred integration tests that share one database

Deep diveMay 27, 202110 min read

A suite that passes alone and fails in a different order. Test 141 depends on a row test 88 created, and nobody wrote that down.

Compose v2 is a plugin, and the hyphen finally goes

Deep diveMay 19, 20219 min read

The same command, spelled two ways, on eight machines. A Python program became a Go plugin, and the container names changed underneath every script.

The service that should not have been a service

Deep diveMay 14, 202110 min read

Four services, three of which deploy together and share a database. The costs of distribution with none of the independence.

Bootstrap 5 removed jQuery and found what depended on it

Deep diveMay 5, 202110 min read

A CSS framework upgrade that turned out to be a JavaScript audit. The modals work and four things around them do not.

terraform fmt in CI, so the diff is about intent

NoteMay 4, 20212 min read

Infrastructure code accumulates whitespace disagreements faster than application code, because it is edited rarely and by different people each time. -check makes it a gate rather than a…

Octane keeps the application in memory and finds every static you left

Deep diveApril 21, 202110 min read

40ms becomes 8ms, and the fourth request returns another customer’s data. The shared-nothing assumption is load-bearing in more places than anybody had counted.

match(true) is an if-chain that returns a value

NoteApril 5, 20212 min read

match (true) is a conditional expression, which is the form most people find last and use most. The value over an if-chain is that it is an expression,…

Time back after a night page, automatically

NoteMarch 30, 20211 min read

“Take the morning if you need it” puts the judgement on the person who was woken up, at the moment they are least able to make it. Making…