Andrei Draganescu

Free food for thought. Bonus drops of clarity.

[Rich Tabor @richtabor]

@mikachan_ sharing about the new WordPress 7.0 navigation overlays at #WCEU

[adam @theCTO]

serverless is amazing.

you get:

- cold starts
- 14 dashboards
- functions timing out because JSON was 3kb too large
- logs delivered sometime between now and your retirement
- a billing model based on quantum mechanics

all to avoid managing a VPS that has had a working tutorial since 2009

[Matías Ventura @matias_ventura]

My speed month project: what if WordPress was an OS you interact with in an open canvas... The canvas holds the objects (posts, pages, media, etc) organized to your needs and taste.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

JESUS CHRIST THE SHADE

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

@se_nadir I like how custom and unique it all feels, as if meant as a great background for the Ikea bamboo phone holder!

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

Just works takes on a new meaning with Telex from WordPress - the assistant will build functional front end AND back end features from the simplest prompts or the most granular. The sky's the limit!

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

#WordPress Telex now has an inspector for visual edits!

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

The pesimist in me says stand alone agents are the new metaverse.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

84 months is 7 years. For every one of those years, that cheese sat as part of a full wheel in a dark cave where someone washed it in salt water, flipped it over, and scraped bad mold off by hand. It had a full-time babysitter.

The cave sat at about 55°F in thick, damp air around 90% humidity. Your fridge runs at 38°F with dry air around 65%. The cave is warm enough for good bacteria to slowly break down the cheese from inside, which is where all the sharp, deep flavor comes from. Your fridge was built to suck moisture out of the air. Good for keeping your milk fresh. Terrible for cheese.

The skin on that wheel (called a rind) was alive. It was covered in bacteria and mold that were actually helping it, working like a living armor that fought off the bad stuff the same way your immune system fights a cold. And those good bacteria had been winning that fight for 7 straight years.

Then someone cut the wheel open, sliced off a small wedge, wrapped it in plastic, and shipped it to your grocery store. Now the cheese is exposed on two or three sides with zero protection. Bacteria from all over your fridge, the open yogurt, the leftover curry from Tuesday, whatever else is in there, can land right on it. The small piece dries out fast because almost all of it is touching air. And the plastic wrap traps moisture against the cut surface, which is exactly what bad mold needs to grow.

Fort Saint Antoine in eastern France is an old military bunker carved into a mountain. Inside, 100,000 wheels of Comte (a hard French cheese) age on wooden shelves while workers walk through and care for each one on a set schedule. Your wedge went from that level of treatment to sitting between a jar of pickles and some week-old pasta.

That cheese was fragile the entire time. It spent 7 years in a fortress with a security team. Now it is in your fridge with nothing but plastic wrap between it and a slow death.

[Riad Benguella @riadbenguella]

I redesigned my entire WordPress site in ~2 hours

• 1 prompt to pull it locally
• 1 redesign prompt (+ a few tweaks)
• 1 prompt to push it live

No setup. No config. Just vibes.

I used something called “Studio Code”…

Post → https://t.co/c1pGnrwc2B

[Andy Peatling @apeatling]

Big week for the "is WordPress dead" discourse. EmDash launching, @photomatt's take, @jdevalk's architectural critique, the "just use AI to build sites" crowd. All smart takes. All framed around developer and platform issues.

Here are my thoughts as someone deep in the weeds in this space:

Current generation AI tools can generate a brochure site. They cannot reliably build a complex site that works the way a real business needs it to.

I work on this problem every day, and the gap between a tech demo and a product is wide.

Even if generation was entirely solved, editing afterwards isn't. "Just use a chatbot to make changes" sounds great until a restaurant owner has to trust that the bot changed the right hours on the right page. A CMS save button is more steps than a prompt, but it's verifiable. That matters to people.

Will AI get good enough to be the editing interface? Probably. But "probably, eventually" is not a product.

The blocks vs JSON vs HTML architecture debate only matters in terms of which gives users the most independence today while being ready for that future as it arrives. Agent needs will become clearer. They aren't yet.

The WordPress data model is imperfect. It's also fine to work with, I’m living it. Not everything that's imperfect needs an immediate and complete refactor.

Start from what users need. Work backwards to the architecture.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Sometimes the problem is not you, but where you are.

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

My first PH launch is non commercial because why would I have money making ideas when I can pretend to be doing "important" work.

https://t.co/M4ASRASkdq

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

You can come after our users, but please don’t claim to be our spiritual successor without understanding our spirit.

https://t.co/yF7H1ra7NI

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

@OpenAI data export is a nightmare of UX - designed to make you give up - settings, export, go to browser, login, settings, export, confirm its you, home screen, settings, export, nothing, wait, confirmation, email that it will start, email it's started, email it's done, expired

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

@hluehrsen @Cloudflare I just tweeted about this heh. WP does offer structured content quite easily for when it's needed. For instance this plugin https://t.co/Zr7iS38VaD offers quite good structure.

Custom WP installations could even save this via filters in JSON fields in recent MariaDB to querry.

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

To #emdash - WordPress already has API to output JSON. If you want specific formats the data api is there to help

Maybe we need portable text on top of that?

https://t.co/Zr7iS38VaD

[Andrei Draganescu @andraganescu]

#emdash is a threat for @WordPress not because it's better but because no SMB service provider wants to market "NONE" as the CMS they use for clients.

[Zucker Doctor @DoctorLFC]

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"The science is settled."

They said that about lobotomies. Drilled into the skull, severed the frontal lobe, sent the patient home quieter. Twenty thousand performed in the US alone. The surgeon got a Nobel Prize.

They said it about radium. Sold in toothpaste. In face cream. In water tonics for "vitality." The factories that made it left a radioactive legacy that required federal cleanup eighty years later. The women who painted the watch dials were told to lick the brush to keep a fine point.

They said it about smoking during pregnancy. Doctors endorsed specific brands. Camel ran ads with physician testimonials. "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." The settled science of the 1940s.

They said it about mercury for syphilis. Rub it on the skin. Inhale the vapour. The cure was frequently worse than the disease. The disease, at least, took years. The mercury took weeks.

They said it about bloodletting. For two thousand years. Every major illness. Every fever. Every infection. Open the vein, release the corruption. George Washington was bled of roughly forty percent of his blood in twelve hours on his deathbed. By doctors. Who were certain.

They said it about margarine. Heart-healthy. Scientifically proven. Cardiologist-approved. The trans fat content was not discussed, because the people funding the studies were not in the business of discussing trans fat content.

They are now saying it about red meat. About saturated fat. About cholesterol. About the LDL hypothesis that has never survived a randomised controlled trial with all-cause mortality as the endpoint.

Settled science is where investigation stops.

It is also, reliably, where the funding starts.