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Pascal Birchler

@swissspidy.bsky.social
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Making the web more capable @ Google. WordPress core committer, maintaining WP-CLI. WordCamp Europe 2025 speakers team lead.

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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
1 month later: My experience co-organizing WordCamp Europe 2025 pascalbirchler.com/my-experienc...
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My experience co-organizing WordCamp Europe 2025 - Pascal Birchler
Exactly one month ago, on June 5th 2025, the European WordPress community came together in Basel, Switzerland for three days full of WordPress — it was time for WordCamp Europe 2025! For me, this jour...
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Bramus @bram.us · 11/07/2025
Ooh, my Chrome DevTools extension for debugging Scroll-Driven Animations is approaching 3000 users … - Live Minimap (!) - ScrollTimeline and ViewTimeline support - CSS and WAAPI SDAs supported - Plays nice with `position: sticky` - Visualize and edit the animation-ranges 👉 brm.us/sda-debugger
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
There is a new web platform feature that allows you to build performant and accessible carousels entirely using CSS. Say goodbye to bulky JavaScript slider libraries! As a proof of concept, I built a CSS-only carousel block for WordPress. Go check it out 🚀
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Building a CSS Carousel WordPress Block - Pascal Birchler
It's easier than ever to build modern UI components on the web, such as tooltips or CSS carousels. Even in WordPress blocks.
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Bainvegni a Basilea! Looking forward to seeing all of you in my home country 🇨🇭
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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Safari Technology Preview 215 is here! It includes several exciting features: - Scroll Driven Animations - text-wrap-style: pretty - CSS Anchor Positioning - HDR images - Trusted Types - File System WritableStream API webkit.org/blog/16523/r...
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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 215
Safari Technology Preview Release 215 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
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natemoore on elm street 👻 @natemoo.re · 23/03/2025
this @ryanmulligan.dev demo really convinced me that scroll-driven animations are the next big thing 🔥 thanks for the link, @codepen.io newsletter!
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CSS view-timeline shine effect
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Here's my recap of the CloudFest Hackathon: Enabling AI-Powered WordPress Development with WP-CLI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) pascalbirchler.com/wordpress-mo...
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WordPress, WP-CLI, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Pascal Birchler
I led a Hackathon project to bring the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to WordPress through WP-CLI, enabling AI-powered WordPress development.
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Bramus @bram.us · 18/03/2025
🤩 Scroll-Driven Animations Excitment! Support for Scroll-Driven Animations got enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview 215! webkit.org/blog/16523/r...
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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 215
Safari Technology Preview Release 215 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
WP-CLI + MCP combines visionary technology and I‘m assembling an overall winning dream team to break any barriers. This is going to be a *pitch perfect* Hackathon project that allows you to master social media—I mean, WordPress—using AI. #CFHACK25 #CloudFest
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This weekend I am leading a Hackathon project on WP-CLI and MCP at #CFHACK25. Really looking forward to build something awesome and share the progress along the way. #CloudFest
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Internationalization improvements in WordPress 6.8 make.wordpress.org/core/2025/03...
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Internationalization improvements in 6.8
There are a number of internationalization (i18n) improvements in WordPress 6.8, which I’d like to cover in this dedicated dev note.
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Looking forward to lead a project on WP-CLI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) at this year's CloudFest Hackathon. Learn more in this intro interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta-s...
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"WP-CLI as an MCP Host" - CloudFest Hackathon 2025 Project Preview
YouTube video by CloudFest
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Core Performance Team Rep nominations for 2025 make.wordpress.org/performance/...
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Core Performance Team Rep nominations for 2025
This post kicks off the formal election process with a call for nominations for the 2025 Core Performance Team Reps. For about 2 years, Emily Clarke (@clarkeemily) and Felix Arntz (@flixos90) have …
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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 21/02/2025
I just blogged a recap of my talk at WordCamp Asia today, with an embed of the livestream recording as well as my slides: weston.ruter.net/2025/02/21/b... #WCAsia
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Boosting Performance with Optimization Detective - Weston Ruter
At WordCamp Asia 2025 today in Manila, I gave a talk about the future for how performance optimizations can be implemented in WordPress today via the Optimization Detective feature plugin. This projec...
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IntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · 17/02/2025
Blink: Intent to Ship: Invoker Commands; the command and commandfor attributes
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Blink: Intent to Ship: Invoker Commands; the command and commandfor attributes
Blink: Intent to Ship: Invoker Commands; the command and commandfor attributes
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WordCamp Europe @wceurope.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Call for Volunteers is now open! Make #WordCamp Europe 2025 unforgettable! Find out more and apply now! #Basel #WordPress #WCEU2025 europe.wordcamp.org/2025/call-fo...
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Bramus @bram.us · 09/02/2025
CSS Custom Functions are coming … and they are going to be a game changer! 👉 brm.us/css-custom-f...
A custom function that returns different values based on light or dark mode being used to visit the page.
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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 07/02/2025
📢 Playing with AI inference in Firefox Web extensions: blog.tomayac.com/2025/02/07/p.... Firefox now has an experimental `browser.trial.ml` namespace with AI inference APIs for extensions 🧩 and shared models that can be used across origins. Pretty interesting!
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Playing with AI inference in Firefox Web extensions
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Invoker Commands in WordPress pascalbirchler.com/invoker-comm...
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Invoker Commands in WordPress - Pascal Birchler
The Invoker Commands API allows declaratively defining interactions between multiple WordPress blocks on a page.
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WordCamp Europe @wceurope.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Looking for something to do this weekend? 🤔 Why not apply to speak at WordCamp Europe 2025? The Call for Speakers is open until January, but why put off something as rewarding and exciting as applying to speak at Europe's biggest WordCamp? #WCEU europe.wordcamp.org/2025/call-fo...
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Call for Speakers
Get ready for one of the most exciting WordPress events of the year – WordCamp Europe 2025! This flagship conference is more than just a gathering; it’s a vibrant celebration of the European …
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Weston Ruter @weston.ruter.net · 02/01/2024
I want to create a Christmas sweater and call it… “Fleece Navidad”.
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Pascal Birchler @swissspidy.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
This week‘s new apps
VoteInfo app icon next to Bluesky app icon. Both are blue and white.
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