Five years ago, I was so burnt out, I didn’t think I had a future being a software engineer. Five years ago, I thought I couldn’t cut it. I didn’t have the chops. I couldn’t keep up. Coding was not fun. I began to wonder if it ever was fun. One of the arguments against […]

I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from a self-proclaimed 20 year agency veteran of WordPress saying that was it, they’re moving the entire agency off of WordPress and onto AI. Now, because I, too, am a 20 year veteran of WordPress, this kind of story catches my attention. He posted that they […]

It’s just about a full year since I finally gathered up the courage to don short shorts and tights, expose parts of my body that are so white you’d need sunglasses against the glare, and flip myself upside down using only the power of my actual human muscles. And I’m still here, still doing it. […]

This is based on a thread that I posted to Bluesky that I decided to keep here for posterity. If you want to discuss on Bluesky, follow me at @jazzsequence.com and let’s chat. Let’s talk about AI. I’ve been using it a lot recently. It’s not that I don’t see or care about the environmental […]

For the last couple weeks, I’ve been building a headless Next.js frontend for this site — a project I’ve been calling jazz-nextjs. The idea is straightforward enough: keep WordPress as the content management layer (where I actually like writing) while serving the public-facing site through a modern React frontend hosted on Pantheon’s Next.js infrastructure. What’s […]

The cat is finally out of the bag. I was officially named Interim President of The WP Community Collective this week. When I joined The WPCC as a member last year, it was not too long after going to my first DrupalCon. DrupalCon Atlanta was enlightening for a lot of reasons. But most relevant to […]

I apologize in advance for this post which is going to be all over the place. Yesterday, the latest major version of WordPress was released. WordPress names each version after a jazz musician and this release was named after Gene Harris. Gene. But naming a piece of software that I have worked in and around […]

Last week, I took my first trip to Canada for WordCamp Canada 2025 (WCEH). Anyone who follows me on social media, may have seen the video I recorded in anticipation of the trip. While sadly I didn’t do a lot of exploring, I had a number of takeaways from the event. Organization There have been […]

I want to talk today about Sora 2 and the new Sora AI app. First of all, Sora is not new. OpenAI released Sora about a year ago initially and, at the time, it was a sort of hidden part of ChatGPT that let you make bad videos. And trust me, they were bad. I […]

Since WordCamp US this year, I’ve been making some cute shorts with the Wapuu I brought back home from Portland. I’ve made two so far to promote me going to BADCamp and WordCamp Canada. My thought is that, in my role as Developer Advocate, I kind of need a “personal brand” and be doing things […]

At the same time as I was fighting with GPT-5 to give me the thing I actually wanted, I also used the Gemini app and the access I have to pro-level Gemini models to do the Lovecraft test with 2.5-pro. Previously, I had only tested with Flash-2.0, so, not only should this be a more […]

GPT-5 is out now and I’ve only had a couple occasions to interact with it directly. So, I thought it was time to run it through the Lovecraft test. ChatGPT has adopted this quirk of late where, when it’s done answering your question or responding to your prompt, it says something to the effect of […]