Jake Spurlock

👨‍💻 @WordPressVIP Formerly @WIRED & @make & @makerfaire 👨‍🎓 @USCIYAOnline & @DigitalMediaUVU

WordPress Core Contributor & Release Lead

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

"Trump wears Heelys"

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

@SethRubenstein reviewing my PRs

[will brown @willccbb]

hey mind reviewing these real quick

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

Things I love: Everything but Docker.
Things I hate: Just Docker.

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

I was able to rebuild EmDash in Claude code in 10 seconds.

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

A successor that does nothing that the original does.

A successor that doesn’t have any of the success.

A successor that takes from the original, and gives nothing back.

A successor that takes ideas from the GPL source, but does’t respect that license.

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

Announcing: EmDash, the WordPress spiritual successor built for the modern web.

TypeScript. Serverless. MIT licensed. x402 for agent-era monetization. MCP server built in. Deploy to Cloudflare or anywhere Node.js runs.

Imports your existing WordPress site in minutes.

npm create emdash@latest
https://t.co/vgqc4tQn30

[David J Phillips @davj]

"Make no mistakes DO NOT HALLUCINATE. YOU ARE AN EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER"

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

Baseball is fun.

[DerpPress @DerpPress]

If we set up a single WordPress, we have a site but if we set up two we have a parasites

[Seth Rubenstein @SethRubenstein]

PRC PDF Extraction is especially important; we believe it is critical for helping LLMs better understand the entirety of our publicly available research data, which is often locked in PDFs. This system uses Claude, with a fallback to Gemini, to extract content from PDFs and store it as blocks. This one is hard to demonstrate, and until we begin converting some of these next week not much to show you as it's mostly WP CLI driven, however we did add a button to dispatch an Action Scheduler async job to run a conversion in the background, so enjoy that.

Yes, PDF to blocks. Like everything else in the PRC Platform stack, PDF Extraction employs Markdown, allowing agents to convert blocks into Markdown tables. In future iterations, we plan to introduce our static image-to-chart builder AI pipeline to extract even more complex PDF documents. This plugin, and Markdown for Agents would not be possible without the incredible help we're getting from @whyisjake and @WordPressVIP.

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

Some cool stuff coming from @SethRubenstein and the engineering team at @pewresearch. Happy to have played a small roll in their success.

[Seth Rubenstein @SethRubenstein]

For the last 3 months we, and Claude, have been hard at work. Compressing a year's worth of work for our team into 1 quarter. A moonshot for our publishing platform and the introduction of our first AI experiments. A good portion of what you're about to see is not public facing, yet. These are live, production ready experiments only available to PRC staff and select outside beta testers.

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

Little League season is here ⚾

My 2026 coach toolkit:

📋 Free lineup spreadsheet (1,200+ downloads)
🎵 WalkUp DJ for walk-up music
⚾ Draft Night for player drafts

https://t.co/vc5QHEe22l

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

AI is the ultimate expression of open source — not replacing the dream, but finally delivering it.

https://t.co/RsFrStW3z9

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

I built a webcam app in my spare time using AI. Someone tried to build the same thing. Claude kept surfacing my code...

He found my app, didn't need to build his own, and left a feature suggestion. I shipped it a few days later.

This is what open source looks like now. 🧵

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

"But you're just generating slop!"

Look at the results. People use these apps. They're good enough that strangers contribute improvements instead of rebuilding from scratch.

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️

We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors.

If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply!

https://t.co/inuh0hxREA

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

What does every WordPress user want?
Fewer notices.

What does every WordPress business want?
More in your face notices.

[Steve Jones @stevejonesdev]

Are we really making the info notice background transparent in WordPress 7.0?

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

I shipped an app.

WalkUp DJ — walk-up music for baseball and softball teams. Build your roster, pick songs from Apple Music, tap to play during at-bats.

AI announcer intros. AirPlay to the PA. Game Mode for the dugout.

The spring season starts now.

https://t.co/b7uqQMKk50

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

@larrybrownsport https://t.co/MLyA2ixoyr

[Jake Spurlock @whyisjake]

@larrybrownsport Or, just use this new template.