How to set up an autonomous agentic engineering pipeline
My days still look a lot like managing coding agents. The difference is that more and more of the work is being funneled through autonomous agents, and more and more I’m interfacing…
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My days still look a lot like managing coding agents. The difference is that more and more of the work is being funneled through autonomous agents, and more and more I’m interfacing…
Want to try it? Head over to GitHub: jtsternberg/claude-plugins → hotline Hotline is an agent plugin — a set of skills that give AI agents a shared communication protocol, so one agent…
A spec for reimplementing my 10-year-old directory-bookmarking tooling (dirmap + goto) in any language — written so your coding agent can rebuild it in about an hour.
This Dilbert strip is painfully accurate. (h/t @Rarst)
If you’re not familiar, WooCommerce offers a way to link to the checkout/cart page and automatically add a product to the cart (h/t Justin). You can create a link like so: I recently (somewhat annoyingly)…
It’s been a year since this interview, and just now realizing I haven’t put it up on this site. In this interview, Troy Dean of WP Elevation interviews me on topics like WebDevStudios, WordPress…
On my personal blog, I wrote about my decision to move on from WebDevStudios and freelance.
In her post, Mika Epstein (@Ipstenu) wrote about the process of porting some CMB code to CMB2. I especially appreciate the last paragraph: Simply put, CMB2 does it well, obviously, and simply.…
I’m a huge fan of the DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) school of thought, and doing a thing once, and doing it well. Because of this, if I sense there’s any chance the…
So recently the WordPress plugin review team, and the WordPress meta team (the team responsible for maintaining wordpress.org and tangential properties like the plugin repo) have been talking about and making some…