Category Archives: Development

30-Wave

Electromagnetic

Heard of terahertz waves?

Between the beams of visible light and the blips of radio static, there lies a dead zone where our technology isn’t effective. It’s called the terahertz gap. For decades now, no one’s succeeded in building a consumer device that can transmit terahertz waves.

popsci.com

06-Lyrs

Complexity

Pyramid Building

This image was once used to illustrate the subject areas for our WordPress-Cupertino Meetup group. Its many Layers of Complexity, before full-site editing (FSE), was introduced in version 5.

Now, knowledge of such complexity need not bother the minds of today. Intelligence has been made artificial.

05-Afar

Browser

Covering the World

Rendering engines translate HTML data into text & images.

Advancements in technology aim to create more efficient, organized, and sustainable systems, pushing back against the natural tendency of systems to degrade over time.

ChatGPT

01-Top!

Peak Effort

Flag Hill – Sunol Regional Wilderness
  1. Question every requirement; have the name of the person who made it.
  2. Delete any part or process you can do without. Restore 10% back later if necessary.
  3. Simplify & optimize the remaining parts/processes.
  4. Accelerate the cycle time.
  5. Automate only after doing all the above, and the bugs have been shaken out.

Elon Musk’s Business Development Algorithm

19-Pert

The WordPress Cupertino Meetup is still going strong (not true – barely limping by) and what you see above illustrates the user interface for website developers starting to use the new block-based page editor, now integrated into core.

Few of you might find this interesting.

The tiny portrait is of Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress.