Weston Ruter

I wanted to hook up Claude Code to be able to interact with my local wordpress-develop core development environment via MCP (Model Context Protocol).

I’ve had an itch I’ve wanted to scratch for a while.

This Christmas I’ve kept thinking about how Mary and Joseph had to flee Judea.

WordPress 6.9 includes so many performance improvements!

As I mentioned in my post A Decade as a Core Committer: My WordPress Contribution History, my role at Google was sadly eliminated in April.

Update: Script Module Deprioritization and Minified CSS Inlining are both landing in WordPress 6.9, along with many other performance improvements.

A couple months ago, this blog reached a web performance milestone which I shared on LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter: For the first time ever, I’ve just seen my blog appear in field metrics from CrUX (Chrome UX Report), albeit in desktop only and for…

The new Instant Back/Forward plugin (née “No-cache BFCache”) enables instant back/forward navigations, particularly while logged in.

Like the rest of the internet, I’ve been awestruck by the quality of Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator (even with audio).

Adding a fetchpriority of low to script modules and moving them from the head to the footer can improve LCP by >9%!