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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 05/09/2026

Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/09/2026

With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). No more application passwords!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 02/09/2026

Did you know that the creator of ManageWP Vladimir Prelovac also created Kagi search engine and the associated products? So cool!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/08/2026

The OpenAI batch API is pretty cool at 50% of the cost. Great for large scale tasks such as captioning 42k images with gpt-5-mini. Here is what I learned:

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/08/2026

During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/08/2026

The FAIR standard (created for WordPress and built on AT protocol) would be perfect for distributing agent plugins since it covers everything from versioning, signing, discovery and packaging. Now the Agent Plugin project is trying really hard to figure this out github.com/agentplugins...

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Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for agentplugins agent-plugins-spec. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 17/08/2026

What do you think of these Claude system prompts? Sound a bit too verbose and as if AI was used to iterate on them which eventually flattens the intent and looses the nuance. platform.claude.com/docs/en/rele...

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System Prompts

See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 10/08/2026

Trying out Agent Pilot WordPress plugin prototype to self-host host AI skills. Let's you manage and publish agent skills without having to figure out Git or GitHub.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 05/08/2026

What would be your preferred interface for creating agent skills in WordPress? a) all front-matter fields in the editor area (ACF-style), or b) all front-matter fields in the sidebar panel?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/08/2026

Thanks to the "Agent Skills Discovery via Well-Known URIs" RFC from Cloudflare we can have WordPress as the Skills CMS with the convenience of `npx skills add ...`

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/07/2026

Agent skills and instructions need a CMS so that teams can collaborate on these critical assets without having to learn git and cli tooling. WordPress is a CMS. Can we make it do this?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/07/2026

Check your AI tool memories (under ~/.codex/memories and ~/.claude/projects). I find that most of them are actually polluting the context and not helping.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/07/2026

We often overlook how WordPress was THE vibe coding of the previous decades. Now there are just way more options available.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 19/06/2026

the no-tool and no-rag approach of claude code feels to be wasting tokens and working through things slower. what's your experience? same model in cursor is way faster and productive.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/05/2026

The Jetpack monorepo is 767MB 🐡 Mostly because of the tracked build files (roughly 360MB) which are not even part of the current work tree.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/05/2026

Would you trust AI to run this? Will it actually apply those single quotes when running it? It created the ~ directory itself during previous runs so it is trying to clean up.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/05/2026

Here is a crazy idea -- pull requests will get replaced by issues or feature requests as the primary way of contributing to open source projects.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/04/2026

Funny how macOS search (both Finder and Spotlight) is so bad that I don’t even think of using it. Imagine how bad AI would do if it couldn’t search properly. Are there recent Mac apps that are trying to solve this?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/04/2026

Somebody should unleash AI agents on the WP trac backlog, have it track all steering decisions and see where we land. We sure could get a core committer skill out this 😅

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/03/2026

Spent the Saturday afternoon exploring ways to add surrogate-key (also known as cache tags) support for Nginx fastcgi cache which is otherwise great with state-while-revalidate support, etc.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/02/2026

The Connectors screen in WP 7.0 would really benefit from encrypted options unless we want to expose those API keys to anyone with access to wp-admin/options.php

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/02/2026

ChatGPT wouldn't do it, Claude wouldn't do it. Eventually tried Perplexity and it was able to generate notes with correct code snippets from my WordPress course videos. Amazing since it didn't have to invent anything -- just capture everything I said and include the relevant code snippets.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 20/02/2026

WordPress block development with breakpoint debugging for JS is a life-changer! So is PHP breakpoints, to be honest. Instead of hunting for the correct file in the browser console, you just add breakpoints in VS Code and it automatically stops JS at that point to show you the full state.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 16/02/2026

When can we reasonably expect all macOS apps to use the correct squircle radius? I can't believe VSCode and Google Chrome are still different from the Finder or any of the built-in apps...

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/02/2026

I can't believe I'm discovering the Apple Shortcuts just now. In one click it can now get my computer ready for screen recording -- it opens VS Code, web browser + recording app, and resizes the windows to fit a specific aspect ratio. The app is bundled with every Mac and iPhone since 2021.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/02/2026

Can AI help optimize your landing pages from actual user session data? We enabled user session recording using PostHog (which uses rrweb behind the scenes), and drove Meta ads to the page. Then used AI to extract those 36k+ events into a single file and asked it to analyze the results.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/01/2026

Turns out that building a "Clear formatting" feature for the WordPress block editor is more difficult than I imagined. Many blocks have the inner content as part of the `content` attribute but things get difficult with RichText, for example. Do you have a solution for this?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/12/2025

Trying to find an alternative to Screen Time for kids on macOS since it’s completely unreliable and the UX is terrible. AdGuard/PiHole with a macos user profile that enforces DNS seems like one option. Need to be local and selfhosted. Suggestions?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 07/12/2025

After sunsetting a VPS that was used for backup of other VPSes, I decided to have #restic send everything to a restic-rest instance (as docker container) on my #homelab NAS over #wireguard. Amazing how restic can backup to so many destinations (s3, sftp, http) over so many transports.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 06/12/2025

Add logging to my kitchen-sink WordPress plugin with handlers for error_log() and Query Monitor. Nice to have info/debug level data while developing and warnings+ on PROD. How are you handling this in your plugins?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/12/2025

Did you know that HTTP3 is already supported by 92% of browsers and can offer 10-20% performance improvements (mostly to LCP) especially for mobile users? Nginx added support for HTTP/3 two years ago in version 1.25.0 so it is available in most recent Linux distributions.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 02/12/2025

Did you know there is a way to check the historic web vitals for your sites from actual user data? Try it out here: cruxvis.withgoogle.com

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 28/11/2025

Has anyone had luck registering for AliExpress API access? Getting auto-rejected and not sure what to try next.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/11/2025

The #FAIR plugin for WP doesn’t like iOS Safari. Probably an outdated regex on user agent?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/11/2025

Turns out HTTP Host headers can have a trailing dot (totally valid too) and nginx will happily forward it to php-fpm making $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] have a trailing dot which then fails all WP multisite domain lookups... First time seeing this on a fresh nginx + php 8.4 setup.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/11/2025

How do you profile PHPStan runs for performance issues? It appears to be spawning a child process even if maximumNumberOfProcesses is set 1 which makes the core logic invisible to XDebug profiler.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/11/2025

Trying out the new VS Code fork from Google. Requires Google login to actually use it... not sure I like this direction.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 18/11/2025

Feels like half the web is down now...

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 16/11/2025

Cloudflare and other MITM proxies with TLS termination have access to your WP usernames and passwords, and every WooCommerce transaction (including customer billing and address data).

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/11/2025

Version 3.0.0 of the Minit plugin for WordPress now defers the script bundle by default and uses this trick to support scripts with "after" logic (which require the parent to be loaded). Learn more here: github.com/kasparsd/minit

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 13/11/2025

Has anyone seen WP add ?_t=... to image URLs? Couldn't find anything in the codebase where this is happening. This is causing WP to fail at generating the srcsets.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 12/11/2025

Everyone on Twitter now... The whole re-auth flow is completely broken. I'm using the correct key and it still goes into this infinite loop.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 12/11/2025

Has anyone created a /metrics REST API endpoint for WordPress that reports data about the WP instance -- object cache reads/writes/memory (from memcache/redis/apcu), php-fpm stats, system load, disk space, etc. Ideally, with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry output formats.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 07/11/2025

Here is a tip -- you don't need the defined( 'ABSPATH' ) checks in class files that don't run any code. PHP will simply do nothing when a class definition is loaded. I've noticed that AI is prone to adding it because of how WP core uses outside of class files.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 05/11/2025

Cmd+Z for restoring recently closed tab is really nice. That key combo is muscle memory for global undo. TIL: Zen browser and others use Cmd+Shift+T to do that.

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