Pascal Birchler

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...

1 month later: My experience co-organizing WordCamp Europe 2025 pascalbirchler.com/my-experienc...

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

The Chrome team already reached out to them and is working on iterating the spec to address such concerns. IIRC there was a thread here on Bluesky about it.

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.

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 🚀

Bainvegni a Basilea!

Looking forward to seeing all of you in my home country 🇨🇭

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...

CSS view-timeline shine effect ...

this @ryanmulligan.dev demo really convinced me that scroll-driven animations are the next big thing 🔥

thanks for the link, @codepen.io newsletter!

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.

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...

🤩 Scroll-Driven Animations Excitment!

Support for Scroll-Driven Animations got enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview 215!

webkit.org/blog/16523/r...

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

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

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.

Internationalization improvements in WordPress 6.8 make.wordpress.org/core/2025/03...

WP-CLI as an MCP Host WP-CLI as an MCP HostEnabling AI-Powered WordPress Development Project Description WordPress development workflows currently lack seamless integration with AI capabilities, particularly during local d...

Full description: hackathon.cloudfest.com/project/wp-c...

YouTube video by CloudFest "WP-CLI as an MCP Host" - CloudFest Hackathon 2025 Project Preview

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...

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 …

Core Performance Team Rep nominations for 2025 make.wordpress.org/performance/...

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...

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

Blink: Intent to Ship: Invoker Commands; the command and commandfor attributes

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...

A custom function that returns different values based on light or dark mode being used to visit the page.

CSS Custom Functions are coming … and they are going to be a game changer!

👉 brm.us/css-custom-f...

Playing with AI inference in Firefox Web extensions The personal blog of Thomas Steiner

📢 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!

Invoker Commands in WordPress - Pascal Birchler The Invoker Commands API allows declaratively defining interactions between multiple WordPress blocks on a page.

Invoker Commands in WordPress pascalbirchler.com/invoker-comm...

So exciting, congrats to you both! 😍

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 …

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...

Automattic Welcomes Harper and Elijah Potter At Automattic, we’re passionate about building exceptional tools that empower users to create, express, and connect. That’s why we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Harper, a grammar checke…

I suspect Jetpack will soon gain one, see automattic.com/2024/11/21/a...

Woukd love to be added :)

I want to create a Christmas sweater and call it… “Fleece Navidad”.

VoteInfo app icon next to Bluesky app icon. Both are blue and white.

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