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PressConf 2026 in Pictures
A collection of photos from PressConf 2026, showcasing the event's highlights, speakers, and attendees.
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Astro & Claude
After seventeen years on WordPress, I rebuilt my blog as a static site using Astro and Claude — and I had no idea what either of them were a week ago.
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WCUS 2025 in Pictures
A photo gallery from WordCamp US 2025, shot almost entirely in monochrome on a rangefinder camera, with generous crops on some images.
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The Hiatus is Over
The author announces a return to the WordPress ecosystem after a hiatus, focusing on the FAIR Package Manager project -- a decentralized and federated plugin and theme distribution system built on the ATProto protocol that reached MVP and launched at the Alt Ctrl Org Conference during WCEU 2025 in Basel.
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PressConf 2025 in Pictures
A photo gallery from PressConf 2025, the reincarnation of Pressnomics, shot mostly in black and white on a fixed 35mm lens with a rangefinder camera and lightly processed in Photomator.
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Update API Server
This post clarifies that Git Updater functions as an Update API Server rather than a direct update server since actual plugin and theme files are served from the git host, and describes virtual integration via the Additions tab along with a cache-flush REST endpoint for use with GitHub webhooks.
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Git Updater Lite
Git Updater Lite is a lightweight composer library that lets WordPress plugin and theme developers distribute updates outside of wp.org by pairing with a Git Updater-based Update API Server, offloading data-gathering to the server and keeping the embedded updater minimal.
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WordPress on Hiatus
A long-time WordPress Core contributor explains pausing his contributions after Matt Mullenweg added a politically charged login checkbox to WordPress.org that he cannot in good conscience check, while reflecting on nearly a decade of Core contributions and expressing hope the community can heal.
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Contributing to WordPress, a Letter to Matt
An open letter to Matt Mullenweg arguing the WP Engine controversy has harmed the community and proposing cost-sharing for WordPress.org infrastructure, placing the site under the WordPress Foundation, and broadening what counts as a contribution under Five for the Future.
