Kaspars Dambis

5 Sept

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.

4 Sept

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!

2 Sept

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

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:

1. there is an org-level cap of 5M enqueued tokens per model so you need to throttle the uploads to stay below that. Not sure why they don't take care of that internally;

2. each batch upload must be below 200MB of so I had to create 75 JSONL files (multiple JSON objects per line) for 42k images resized to 1536px on the long edge.

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

Turns out the AI models that generate embedding vectors from images directly are BAD at capturing the image contents, so I had to first generate captions and then generate the embeddings for the captions instead.

Total cost: $30 for both captions (gpt-5-mini) and embeddings (text-embedding-3-large with 3072 dimensions).

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

21 Aug

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...

platform.claude.comSystem PromptsSee 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).

17 Aug

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...

via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931...

17 Aug

news.ycombinator.comClaude: System Prompts | Hacker NewsFor example here's what changed between Opus 4.8 and Opus 5: https://github.com/simonw/research/commit/a2de185cc367eb66c2...The most interesting addition to the prompt from that diff is this bit:>…

10 Aug

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.

5 Aug

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?

4 Aug

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 ...`

github.comGitHub - cloudflare/agent-skills-discovery-rfc: A mechanism for discovering Agent Skills using the .well-known URI path prefix as specified in RFC 8615 for discovering Agent Skills.A mechanism for discovering Agent Skills using the .well-known URI path prefix as specified in RFC 8615 for discovering Agent Skills. - cloudflare/agent-skills-discovery-rfc

4 Aug

I really hope we eventually arrive at an open package standard for bundling these custom AI plugins that can be self-hosted and installed using any AI GUI harness. Currently all the nice AI things are mostly available to developers who can run CLI commands. See github.com/cloudflare/a...

caseyrb.com1 in 6 new WordPress plugins is now an AI plugin · Casey BurridgeI counted every plugin on WordPress.org (all 68,651 of them) to measure the AI wave: over 3,000 AI plugins, a share that has doubled in two years, and a trend line that eventually hits 100%.

4 Aug

So when is every new plugin an AI plugin? 1. Exponential -- late 2029 2. Linear -- by 2038. Nice read from Casey: caseyrb.com/blog/ai-plug...

23 July

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?

make.wordpress.orgMerge Proposal: Guidelines built on KnowledgeWe propose merging Knowledge, a new wp_knowledge custom post type, into WordPress core for the 7.1 release, with Guidelines as the first feature built on it. Knowledge is a general primitive for st…

23 July

There is a proposal to add a wp_knowledge post type (and a matching taxonomy) to WP core make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06... but it is not landing soon. The idea is to test it as a plugin first.

22 July

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.

21 July

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

19 June

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.

22 May

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

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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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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Pull requests require that we trust the code offered for merging. Yes, we can ask AI to review the code but there is still a lot of risk associated with it. As humans we can reliably control only the inputs to the AI models which is the issue or feature request describing the desired outcomes.

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I first heard about this concept from Adam Jacob on the Changelog podcast covering his Swamp project changelog.com/friends/130

wedistribute.orgThe Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card - We DistributeSix months after an initial analysis, two Fediverse experts come back to examine where user experience has changed. Are we on the path of redemption, or repeating the same old sins?

4 May

Federated and independent web is a user experience and usability challenge. Here is a great list of known issues and how they’re being addressed across the ecosystem. wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-...

21 Apr

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?

21 Apr

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 😅

29 Mar

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.

29 Mar

Considered creating an Nginx module but there don't appear to be any hookable events when the cache files are written. The idea would be too keep an index of tags mapped to cache files on disk and have a route for invalidating by tags.

29 Mar

A sidecar approach might work better but it would require polling for filesystem changes and parsing the cache files which do have the response headers in there.

24 Feb

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

github.comGitHub - wpelevator/encrypted-secrets: [READ ONLY] A PHP library for encrypting secrets[READ ONLY] A PHP library for encrypting secrets. Contribute to wpelevator/encrypted-secrets development by creating an account on GitHub.

24 Feb

I worked on an API for that a while back: github.com/wpelevator/e...

23 Feb

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.

23 Feb

The trick was to create 1 FPS videos with full audio so that it still has access to full video contents and audio but with ~5% of the file size. Worked great.

20 Feb

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.

20 Feb

To enable it, add this configuration to .vscode/launch.json file.

16 Feb

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...

15 Feb

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.

15 Feb

Be sure to check out the included library of shortcuts and automations for inspiration. Here is the "Record Coding" automation that I built.

4 Feb

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.

4 Feb

Here is what it said: "Why Users Reach the Price but Don’t Buy These are clear, recurring behavioral patterns that explain why purchases stall near the end — even when traffic quality and checkout functionality are fine. This is not a traffic problem. This is late-funnel decision friction."

22 Jan

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?

21 Dec 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?

7 Dec 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.

6 Dec 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?

4 Dec 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.