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Alternative Markdown format for AI Tools
I started reading “AI Engineering” by Chip Huyen and learned about the studies that NewsGuard did on AI generated content. The conclusion was and I am paraphrasing: LLMs are slowly running out of human created content to learn from. Many publishers are shutting AI Tools out of crawling their sites. So LLMs are feeding from Ai generated content, which will fast decrease the quality of the LLMs. It’s a risk in the industry that AIs won’t be able to deliver on the promise. As I publish on the Gutenberg Times,…
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Five Year Anniversary of the Gutenberg Nightly
Yesterday, I celebrated a quiet 5-year anniversary of the Gutenberg Nightly. The first version was released on October 15, 2020. The Gutenberg Nightly is a almost-daily plugin build from Gutenberg repository trunk branch. Here I explain, who would want to use it, and why, especially on the eve of major core releases, it might be helpful This download page is for people who would like to alpha/beta test Gutenberg, but A friend of mine asked me, “Every two weeks is not fast enough for you”? On October 19, 2020, there…
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providesContext and usesContext – Block API
Nick Diego shared this code example on helping out the OP on the GitHub issues. The use case by itself would be fascinating, but I just want to learn about this particular code. Nick shared it in the WordPress Slack #outreach channel to help a user with his code. You can read the full conversation here (you need a wp.org account and a slack account, though) My new favorite AI tool is Perplexity to use as a learning tool. Below you find the answer to the prompt and to follow-up…
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Help with discovery of your new blocks
At WordCamp Asia, I had a conversation with a plugin owner about the progression of their plugin. She told me that they refactored all their blocks, and want to discontinue the old ones. A refactor was much easier than trying to continue making deprecation versions, for sure. I also learned that the team had difficulties convincing their users to use the new blocks instead. This problem was simmering in the back of my head since then. As a user of the plugin, I didn’t realize that the new blocks were…
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Offering WordPress Playground to test Gutenberg Nightly
WordPress Playground is phenomenal and blows this web developer’s mind, as you can run a whole WordPress site in the browser: no server, no database, no php, no test site. It has so many use cases, and the team around it explored so many of them already. For about three years, I created half-automatically a plugin zip from the Gutenberg trunk branch, so people can test the latest development with easy. The page Need a zip from Gutenberg trunk on the Gutenberg Times provides you with all the information, of…
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Using Element for WordPress’ Matrix spaces
Update January 2025: WordPress Matrix has been discontinued, as Slack is much more feature rich and already established. You can read the announcement here: Shutting down WordPress.org’s Matrix Server After I installed Elements on my Mac, it was fairly straightforward to login to the Matrix space of WordPress. Here is the video More information is available: On WordPress > Chat > Matrix There is also a webversion of Elements at matrix.wordpress.net
