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Notes from core
Field reports on WordPress core work, patches, tooling, and the occasional side quest.
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2025 Wrap Up – 2026 Goal
The first day of the year is always a good moment for a wrap-up. It is also the perfect time to set a goal for the next 52 weeks. Work wrap up…
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Enable xdebug on wordpress-develop repo
Just adding this for my future self’s health. First, update the PHP config file. The VSCode launch file: Do not forget to update your .env file. Beware of trying to make it…
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Swimming, reading, driving and videogames.
These are my favorite activities—the ones that make time fly by. They allow my mind to drift among random thoughts, coming and going, much like in meditation. Lately, I’ve needed them more…
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The benefit of having a cozy videogame.
Life is hard, full of decisions, problems, highlights, lowlights, etc. For that reason, having a place where everything is scripted, with slight changes every week but with the same mechanics overall, is…
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My PC is officially old
Yesterday I tried to run my old PC again. Folders took a ton of time to open, the display was at a low resolution due to AMD drivers not working with Windows…
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The vendor lock-in problem
I’ve been using a few apps for writing lately: Day One, Obsidian, Apple Notes, and Journal. Each one has slight differences that make me use them for different cases: What if I…
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2025 – Goals
This year, I’ll keep the same system I used in 2024. No goals, just flow and survive. Well, maybe winning a padel match would be awesome. I won a Padel match on…
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Keeping the lights on
Yesterday we all had a difficult day at the “office.” I decided to stay, and I kept the lights on by deploying Gutenberg 19.4.0 RC1. I joined Frontity and Automattic to work…
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Testing functions with _doing_it_wrong calls.
I’ve just updated an Interactivity API function. Now, it includes a _doing_it_wrong() that will trigger if the directives server processing fails. However, adding this notice interfered with the existing tests that were…
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2024 – Goals
For the past couple of years, I have stopped setting goals. Instead, I will continue to follow my instincts in matters of health, wealth, work, personal, and family time. It has worked…