Month: August 2023

How You Can Use Ray to Debug Vanilla PHP Utilities

There’s a lot to be said for using a traditional debugger such as Xdebug (and I’m still a fan), but lately, I’ve been writing more generalized PHP utilities that have no front-end and aren’t plugged into any specific application. That is, I’m using native PHP libraries to run queries against incoming data and help analyze…

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WordCamp US 2023 Looked to the Future and Beyond

Landing in Washington DC you immediately feel the history. You feel the weight of the decisions being made in the city and it gives you a sense of pride for belonging to something bigger than yourself. That’s why it was such an apt setting for WordCamp US 2023, on the heels of the 20th anniversary…

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Gutenberg 16.5 Adds New Commands to the Command Palette

Gutenberg 16.5 was released this week with the biggest changes landing in the Command Palette. Users now have access to more block-related commands for block transforms and block actions, including the following: all transforms to the block has defined (e.g. to cover, to gallery, to columns, to file, to group, to media and text, for an image…

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