New WP Trend Watcher is live: Gutenberg 24.2 notes, experimental real-time collaboration, and the WordPress 7.2 release schedule. My favorite small detail: themes can override background-color padding with a custom property. colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

You're making a playlist, but every song has to have the same track number on its album. Which number are you picking: track 1, track 2, track 3, or something else?

WordPress is becoming easier for AI agents: MCP Adapter exposes site capabilities, and AI 1.4 adds Markdown feeds. WP Trend Watcher covers WP 7.2 SQL/performance changes and the 7.1.3 security release: colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

New WP Trend Watcher report is live. WordPress 7.2 planning is reaching into SQL modes, script/style loading, `wp_kses()`, and AI integrations. Also: WordPress 7.1.3 fixed 7 security issues. Update your sites. colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

(To the tune of Safety Dance by Men Without Hats) 🎶 We can code if we want to We can leave the docs behind 'Cause your friends don't prompt And if they don't prompt Well, they're debugging all night! We can build what we want to We can ship with an AI Got a bot writing tests And a hundred requests But the build's still failing CI! Oh, it's the Coding Dance! 🎶

Hallelujah! Official, full Markdown support in Google Drive/Docs. 👏👏

New WP Trend Watcher report: - Gutenberg 24.1 adds background, color, and typography controls to more core blocks. - Presence API 0.14 now supports all post types, Site Editor content, and multisite aggregation. Also: a possible shift to livestreamed releases. colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

New WP Trend Watcher report: WordPress 7.1.2 fixes a critical RCE vulnerability - make sure client sites are updated. Also inside: the 7.2 roadmap, Gutenberg’s Jest-to-Vitest move, and new contributor tools. colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

Status: currently whipping up an #HermesAgent desktop @lastfm + @TIDAL playlist curator to circumvent the lackluster Tidal recommendation engine. I love Tidal, but the custom mix engine quickly becomes repetitive and homogenous.

I should have listened to the pundits. I've been solely using Luna (medium) for weeks. I thought I'd give Astra a spin. I instantly burned through three banked resets on Astra in a matter of minutes (AI-minutes that is). 🤦🏼‍♂️

WordPress 7.2 is taking shape: React 19, a new Secrets API, sudo mode, server-aware collaboration, and Ipsum as the proposed default theme. Also: 7.1.1 fixes 11 security issues. Update your sites. colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

What is Claude Code? 🤣🤣

I have not even tried Astra yet on my paid $20 OpenAI subscription, because Luna just cooks all day for me and I can’t imagine it getting any better. 🤷‍♂️

This week in WordPress: the 7.2 release cycle is underway, Core contributors on trunk need Node.js 24.18+ and npm 11.16+, and ACF 6.8.10 ships critical security fixes. Latest WordPress Trend Report: colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

Core might be replacing Dashicons in the admin bar and menu with SVGs via `wp_get_icon()`. If you maintain admin-facing themes or plugins, check where you still load Dashicons and what an eventual migration means. More in this week's report: colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

New WP Trend Watcher report: schedule around WordPress 7.1.1 (RC1 Sep 10; release Sep 17). For 7.2, watch the proposed Secrets API and PHPUnit cleanup, but do not build against either yet. What to test now vs. monitor next: colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

WP Trend Watcher now has an RSS feed. Subscribe to new reports instead of checking the archive manually. This week’s report used a different local model: ornith-1.5-9b and was human-reviewed. RSS: colorful-tones.github.io/wp-…

I missed the OpenClaw hype somehow, but I was fortunate enough to find Hermes Agent early on. I think folks that read about and/or used OpenClaw hype have a strong bias against Hermes Agent and equate it to OC, but they’re truly missing out, because I can’t imagine OC being close.