New Sad Bastard Music Club coming on Monday. Subscribe to my very occasional emails to get it in your inbox. s3q.us/sad-bastard-...

Turns out I never cared that much about typing code. I cared about making weird shit on the web that did stuff.

So I legit like @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social (at least from everything I have heard so far) but y’all that are breathlessly saying that you’ve never heard anything like them before…y’all know math rock existed before them, right?

Rumors of WordPress' demise have been greatly exaggerated

Can I just express how my development workflow/open windows has shifted dramatically over the past month? A lot of it (but not ALL of it) has to do with Claude Code. Previously, I would have a terminal window (I've been using Warp for a long time www.warp.dev/)...

It's been about a year since I drummed up the courage to go to my first aerials class. Here's some stuff I learned along the way.

Four WordPress nerds walk into a Podcastathon. All of them are on the board of a nonprofit trying to fix how open source contribution works. One of them is me.

I wrote a thread on AI and then i turned that thread into a post where I added some more thoughts.

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 impact, the human/social impact. I do. I strongly believe that we need regulatory bodies to apply rules and guidelines around how AI is used. But regulation moves slow and needs...

I spent way too long debugging why Claude Code wouldn't register WordPress MCP tools. The culprit? `enum` and `default` in JSON Schema. Zero error messages. Here's the full story of building the stdio proxy and getting 66 native tools working. 🧵

No one: My brain: You know what’s weird? Tea is just dried leaves that someone decided to make wet again. No one: My brain: You think that’s weirder than someone who decided to break open a plant, dry out its beans, cook them, crush them up and then make THEM wet again??

The new @utahroyalsfc.com Swarm kit is fire 🔥 Can't wait to get mine! www.rsl.com/utahroyals/j...

🙌 eyyyy thanks for coming on and showing off your cool plugin @troychaplin.bsky.social!

Yes, indeed, I did join @thewpcc.bsky.social Board of Directors as its Interim President. Here are some words about it.

From the archive: jazzsequence.com/2010/02/vale... Throwback to the original greeting card holiday 💕

Oh hey, have you seen the new site design? communitycode.dev

@mike.herchel.com of @dripyard.com joined @pantheon.io’s Chris Reynolds @jazzsequence.com to unpack the future of the Drupal marketplace. They explored component-based themes, site recipes, and the push toward faster, commercial-grade builds. Catch the recap via TDT. 🔗 https://bit.ly/45y0Ag7

My current favorite style of social media post is boomers doing Gen Z slang. (Or is it Gen Alpha? I’m lowkey mid, no cap)

I know we all know, but I had to actually articulate this to myself last night… We’re 10 days into 2026. Already, the POTUS has declared his New Year Resolution was “world peace” and almost immediately bombed Venezuela, kidnapping the President and his wife. …

I sat down with @thewebprincess.bsky.social to talk cultural algorithms, implicit bias, WP Includes, and why our communities thrive when we stop guarding our corner of the pie.

Just when you think Trump can’t sink any lower… Rob Reiner and his talented wife Michele were friends of ours. We collaborated on projects. Brad and I are devastated. We are in shock and grief. Sure, Rob opposed Trump, but this is so beyond the pale.

For the past 7 months, I've been running @communitycode.dev, a podcast that gives me an excuse to talk to cool people about what inspires them. It's been a great run & I'm looking at doing it all over again in 2026. Join me and be a guest on the show! communitycode.dev/be-a-guest/

The Gene that I honor is not a jazz musician representing a #WordPress release.

Being number one in WordPress isn’t the point — keeping the web open is. @mikedemo.bsky.social joins Community + Code to talk about bridging open-source communities, from Joomla to WordPress, and why collaboration beats competition.

Does anyone else notice how more and more content is written by AI? Maybe I’m not one to talk—I use AI to help write episode summaries and blog posts for @communitycode.dev, but increasingly I am rewriting or editing more. But the cadence of AI writing is everywhere now; in social media sure…

e: maybe you’ll see the Northern Lights on your flight… me: oh yeah, I do have a window seat. Which way should I look? e: ಠ_ಠ me: probably north, huh?

From Chicago to Greece, @paloukas.com talks performance engineering at @pressidium.com, WordCamps and camping with his cat. 😻

Tomorrow I am I have to use a calculator to remember how old I am years old.

Is it me or is it objectively true that Tesla drivers drive faster than everyone else?

On behalf of all the blue dots inside gerrymandered, red states, sincerely, thank you, California. #prop50

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Since my Wapuu post (and the one that prompted it), I have felt weirdly even more defensive of Wapuu, more than other parts of WordPress. I feel like Wapuu is something we got unambiguously right. jazzsequence.com/2025/10/in-d...

WordCamp Canada, eh? My recap for @wordcampcanada.bsky.social

FusionAuth’s @maida.kim joins @jazzsequence.com and shares her path through DevRel, why identity work matters, and how art helps her stay balanced.

Wapuu met some new friends at @wordcampcanada.bsky.social #wapuu #WCEH

Awfully nice campus you’ve got here @carleton.ca 🍁 #WCEH @wordcampcanada.bsky.social

Who’s got two thumbs, a pet Wapuu and is speaking at @wordcampcanada.bsky.social on Friday? This guy 😁 Come learn about GotHub Actions with me! canada.wordcamp.org/2025/session...

If you'd like to be on my podcast, you can be! No specific experience required and I'm looking for guests! communitycode.dev/be-a-guest

In case you missed it last week (and if you did, you should really *hit subscribe* 😉), the newest episode of Community + Code dropped. This time, I chat with @karmatosed.art about building products, the company she co-founded Guildenberg, AI and burnout. communitycode.dev/episodes/epi...

What if there was an entire social media platform based around AI slop. Guess what! There is!

This week I learned that an anti-Wapuu community exists that believes Wapuu is at best irrelevant and at worst detrimental to #WordPress. I disagree.

Wapuu and I are going to Canada for the first time for @wordcampcanada.bsky.social Will we see you there? #WordPress #WCEH2025

ICYMI Last week I talked to @raquelkarina.bsky.social. Among other things, we talked about @pressconf.events and what makes it different from other events. If you haven't checked out the episode yet, what are you waiting for? communitycode.dev/episodes/epi... #podcast #WordPress #events #community

Some killer swag (ha ha 😏) from Tugboat at #BADCamp

Wapuu preparing for my #BADCamp presentation

I’m on the BART, riding through Daly City fog 😍 on my way to #BADCamp to rep @pantheon.io (catch my Content Publisher talk!) and #WordPress (catch my panel on different CMSes!) Will Wapuu and I see you there?

On a plane and watching the new Mission Impossible. I am literally 6 minutes in and this is the absolute dumbest premise in any movie ever created in the history of movies. Hoooolyyy shit.

I just realized that there’s a particular AI content tic that I didn’t know I knew: “This isn’t just {some thing}. This is {the same thing reframed as something groundbreaking}.” I appreciate Clockwise, but, Product people, Marketing people: do better, please.

Today on Community + Code, hear my conversation with THE @raquelkarina.bsky.social on the secret of creating the magic ✨ of community. #WordPress #community #opensource communitycode.dev/episodes/epi...