Joe McGIll

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Can Project Rules in Cursor Replace WordPress CLI Scripts for editor block scaffolding? Cursor project rules turn scaffolding into a guided chat with reasoning and sensible defaults, plus where classic CLI remains the faster choice.

Can an AI agent offer a better workflow than command line tools for scaffolding WordPress editor blocks?

In a new deep dive, one of our Senior Front End Engineers puts Cursor project rules head-to-head with classic CLI scripts: www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-pr...

Engineering Manager - Americas - Human Made, makers of Altis DXP Reports to: Associate Director of EngineeringDiscipline: Engineering Primary Focus: Team effectivenessCompany Strategic Responsibility: No Squad Strategic Responsibility:  YesLine Manag...

Apply to work with us at @humanmade.com — we're looking for an Engineering Manager on our Americas team! wrkbl.ink/4gUMj3B If you want to work with and lead an absolutely world-class WordPress delivery team (or just if "telling me what to do" sounds fun), please consider applying!

Forever status

🙏🏻 go Blers

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Lucky McGill walk

A pollination of things - Joe McGill Earlier this summer, our neighborhood friend group lost one of its founding members after her prolonged battle with cancer ended with her being taken from us far too soon. We all knew that this was li...

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All time low

The best way to warm leftover pizza is a cast iron skillet.

I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none).

Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.

Get Ready for My WCUS 2025 Workshop: Set Up Your Local AI-Powered WordPress Environment Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time with tools such as ClassifAI and Ollama. We’ll walk through setting up a local WordPress environment, installing necessary plugins, and testing AI integrations. By the end, you’ll have the skills to manage both your content and AI securely. I look forward to connecting and exploring scalable, ethical AI solutions together!

Get Ready for My WCUS 2025 Workshop: Set Up Your Local AI-Powered WordPress Environment

Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time…

100%. Once the crust has a minute to get crispy, poor in an ounce or two of water and cover with a pizza peel, sheet pan, etc to steam the top.

Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"

Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"

Manager: "What's the status of that?"

Lead: "We're halfway there"

Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"

Lead: "You fired Tommy"

Manager: "So?"

Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

This is the kind of interoperability the people need

I spotted a Labubu on the boardwalk and couldn’t stop thinking: what if Wapuu + Labubu = Wabubu?

I asked ChatGPT to help me visualize the mashup and things spiraled into a multiverse of plushies, claymation, pixel art, and bento boxes: jeffpaul.com/2025/08/wapu...

#WordPress #Labubu #Wapuu #Wabubu

Fueled Heads to WordCamp US 2025 · Fueled Fueled is heading to Portland, Oregon for WordCamp US (WCUS) 2025, taking place August 26–29. WCUS is the premier WordPress conference in the United States, drawing thousands of developers, designers,...

We're heading back to WCUS 2025, this year as a Contributing Sponsor as the WordPress Practice of Fueled. We’re excited to reconnect with longtime partners & friends in the WordPress community, deep dive into what’s new in WordPress, & share more about our expanded capabilities under our new brand.

Petey is undefeated

This is a top shelf answer for 2 truths and a lie

My fantastic four

You pushed your changes to your remote and then sent me a request to pull them into mine.

I agree with this hypothesis that you need to get through the learning curve with AI development tooling before getting any productivity benefits, but interesting to see study like this.

Engineering for Impact: A Look Back at Fueled’s Work on the WordPress Performance Team A deep dive into how our engineering team improved website performance across the internet by optimizing WordPress core.

Our team is helping make WordPress – and the open web – faster. Partnering with the broader WordPress Performance Team, we’ve shipped measurable gains in load times, server response, and Core Web Vitals. @joemcgill.bsky.social breaks it down.

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And you’ve got a bucket load of highlights. “Picking some” is the nightmare

That sounds like a nightmare

Storybook

Fun to see first hand how this team is managing such a widely used plugin.

Bro. It’s been a long weekend. I don’t think we need to find out anything

I actually don’t need to know how bad it could be

This exactly. This team has become a complete mess. Blow it up. Restart.