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Seth Rubenstein

@sethrubenstein.info
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Head of Engineering at @pewresearch.org. #WordPress #Gutenberg Contributor. Passionate about WordPress, buffalo wings, #StarCitizen, and surviving the slow motion ecological collapse from the D.C. area. 🚴 📷 🌹 Certified hater. sethrubenstein.info

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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 12/02/2026
For 3 months we've been at work on our first fully agentically constructed release with WP AI agent skills, this release features dark mode for the block editor, a seamless Yoast replacement, over a dozen new AI experiments, and SO MUCH more to share, soon. Until then, a 99% working Dark Mode...
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 30/11/2025
It's the first year we got season tickets to the National Theatre. First up for this season: Some Like It Hot
Rachel and I waiting for “Some Like It Hot” to begin.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 03/09/2025
If you take mass transit everyday don’t sleep on Transit. So well designed. I use it just so I have a reminder to get off at my stop, the live activity makes sure of that. apps.apple.com/us/app/trans...
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 31/08/2025
Saturday night. DC is a ghost town.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 03/07/2025
And in the quiz results, we're taking things up a level for quiz designers. Now they'll be able to specify when a block should appear based on what score the user landed on, and from there they can even fire off specific animations depending on the score.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 03/07/2025
I've been having maybe too much fun working on Quiz Builder 4.0... Now completely refactored to use the WordPress Interactivity API, AND block bindings. This will allow us a greater deal of layout and styling control, and for the first time rich media inside answers.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 03/07/2025
Not my money
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 27/06/2025
One of the nice things about View Transitions is that if you reload the page (as we do when logging a user in to our public facing user accounts system), then only the changed element's animate in. It's all so seamless, with so little work.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 25/06/2025
It’s all happening, on Bluesky dot com. Look at these skeets
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 25/06/2025
Absolutely amazing line up
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 24/06/2025
It's nicer back in Anderson, SC than it is up here 🫠
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 12/06/2025
NPM is down today; but pewresearch.org is up. I'm just saying.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 03/06/2025
Oh my geeerrrd, they gave me an Idris for a week
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 01/05/2025
WOW I have been on a tear the last couple of days adding AI functionality to our new Power Table block. Seriously, @felixarntz.bsky.social AI Services plugin is amazing, so easy to work with. Here we go, generate: title, caption, and data all working. *data not number checked just a demo
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 29/04/2025
Weeee my very first AI feature utilizing @felixarntz.bsky.social AI Services plugin. This feature integrates with our new Power Table block (fork of Flexible Table) in our block library to generate captions for Tables given their data and their table name if present.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 09/04/2025
Had fun building this little calendar heatmap inspector panel component today. Great for monthly stats.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 20/03/2025
Kinda...
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 20/03/2025
Its that time of day, mid-morning zoomies, where my boy goes crazy.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 17/03/2025
Sometimes your co-workers pick the weirdest places to hang out
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 16/03/2025
HUH???
A side by side comparison showing a 15in MacBook Air configuration for 1799 that has 30+gb of ram compared to a 14in MacBook Pro for 3000+ with 30+gb of ram and forced into a higher CPU config.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 14/02/2025
Needs just a bit more polish but I'm happy with our updated Carousel block is at it. This new Carousel drops our Splidejs dependency in favor of pure CSS scroll snapping. Going live around noon on pewresearch.org and in PRC Block Library repo.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 11/02/2025
My two cats, Indy, and Cleo, sharing a warm cozy bed in our wardrobe.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 10/02/2025
1 graph, 3 unique experiences. No evil Meta.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 28/01/2025
Testing out Pinksky #pinkskyPost
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 20/01/2025
Waking up to another 4 years of occupation by enemy forces
A photo of someone holding a cigarette that says “my idols are dead and my enemies are in power”
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 16/01/2025
2025 year of Linux
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 21/12/2024
4 hours later of our 2 hour drive to Philly for the weekend. Is all that traffic really because of Francis Scott key bridge being destroyed?!?!? Good lord. Anyways, best city in America - the city state of Philadelphia
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 18/12/2024
Worth the couple of hundred to buy the Endel lifetime subscription a few years back.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 17/12/2024
America’s thriving media landscape.
“What is fart coin? And why is it soaring right now?” Is the notification I just received on my phone from Apple News and Fast Company… surely a sign of a thriving media landscape.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 09/12/2024
2024 was hella busy. April almost broke me.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 06/12/2024
👍
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 04/12/2024
I have varied and complicated musical taste
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 24/11/2024
Helluva game, even if we lost.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 20/11/2024
He tries to help code. He’s getting there. He already knows the first central tenant of development, doing battle with the computer, mistrusting its intentions.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 18/11/2024
In honor of Star Citizen 4.0 EPTU and the Polaris launching (we’re almost there Citizens!!!) Rachel and I are rewatching one of the best sci-go TV shows of the last 2 decades.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 14/11/2024
Yeah, hehe, yeah 😅 never.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 12/11/2024
Spent all day fighting PHPCS, eslint, and VS Code. Got nothing done. Felt like this
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 09/11/2024
Caturday 🐈
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 07/11/2024
It finally came! This is by far the coolest 3d printed Apple accessory I've ever seen. So brilliant. store.overwerk.com/products/doc...
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 04/11/2024
Had a ton of meetings today, but I was able to scaffold most of what I think I'll need to accomplish this new internal SEO/Schema plugin. Gonna spend most of tomorrow really getting to work.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 03/11/2024
So brutal that Teams has this growth but is absolutely the inferior product
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 02/11/2024
Never have the time for this during the week, testing out RankMath for #wordpress, finally, this weekend. Really like what I saw on their site about schema config and dev docs, looks like it'll be a little easier to work with as a dev. This import process from Yoast tho... might be a while lol.
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Seth Rubenstein @sethrubenstein.info · 04/10/2023
She’s had a rough week but on the mend from a particularly bad UTI.
My cat, Mona, wore out from an ER vet visit for a bad UTI she’s developed.
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