Joe McGIll
@joemcgill.net
I love you. And I love Taylor Swift too. I just needed a break, you know?
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Can an AI agent offer a better workflow than command line tools for scaffolding WordPress editor blocks?
In a new deep dive, one of our Senior Front End Engineers puts Cursor project rules head-to-head with classic CLI scripts: www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-pr...
In a new deep dive, one of our Senior Front End Engineers puts Cursor project rules head-to-head with classic CLI scripts: www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-pr...
Can Project Rules in Cursor Replace WordPress CLI Scripts for editor block scaffolding?
Cursor project rules turn scaffolding into a guided chat with reasoning and sensible defaults, plus where classic CLI remains the faster choice.
www.linkedin.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Can an AI agent offer a better workflow than command line tools for scaffolding WordPress editor blocks?
In a new deep dive, one of our Senior Front End Engineers puts Cursor project rules head-to-head with classic CLI scripts: www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-pr...
In a new deep dive, one of our Senior Front End Engineers puts Cursor project rules head-to-head with classic CLI scripts: www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-pr...
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Apply to work with us at @humanmade.com — we're looking for an Engineering Manager on our Americas team! wrkbl.ink/4gUMj3B If you want to work with and lead an absolutely world-class WordPress delivery team (or just if "telling me what to do" sounds fun), please consider applying!
Engineering Manager - Americas - Human Made, makers of Altis DXP
Reports to: Associate Director of EngineeringDiscipline: Engineering Primary Focus: Team effectivenessCompany Strategic Responsibility: No Squad Strategic Responsibility: YesLine Manag...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Apply to work with us at @humanmade.com — we're looking for an Engineering Manager on our Americas team! wrkbl.ink/4gUMj3B If you want to work with and lead an absolutely world-class WordPress delivery team (or just if "telling me what to do" sounds fun), please consider applying!
What movie do you consider “perfect”?
September 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What movie do you consider “perfect”?
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The best way to warm leftover pizza is a cast iron skillet.
I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none).
Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.
I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none).
Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.
August 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The best way to warm leftover pizza is a cast iron skillet.
I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none).
Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.
I will take as many questions as Wesley Bell at a town hall (which is none).
Please do not hire cops and bullies to put their hands on me like he did his constituents.
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Get Ready for My WCUS 2025 Workshop: Set Up Your Local AI-Powered WordPress Environment
Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time…
Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time…
Get Ready for My WCUS 2025 Workshop: Set Up Your Local AI-Powered WordPress Environment
Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time with tools such as ClassifAI and Ollama. We’ll walk through setting up a local WordPress environment, installing necessary plugins, and testing AI integrations. By the end, you’ll have the skills to manage both your content and AI securely. I look forward to connecting and exploring scalable, ethical AI solutions together!
jeffpaul.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Get Ready for My WCUS 2025 Workshop: Set Up Your Local AI-Powered WordPress Environment
Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time…
Join my Scalable, Ethical AI workshop at WordCamp US 2025 for a practical experience in creating privacy-friendly AI workflows within WordPress. Prepare your laptop in advance to maximize your hands-on time…
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Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
August 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable"
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Lead: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Lead: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
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I spotted a Labubu on the boardwalk and couldn’t stop thinking: what if Wapuu + Labubu = Wabubu?
I asked ChatGPT to help me visualize the mashup and things spiraled into a multiverse of plushies, claymation, pixel art, and bento boxes: jeffpaul.com/2025/08/wapu...
#WordPress #Labubu #Wapuu #Wabubu
I asked ChatGPT to help me visualize the mashup and things spiraled into a multiverse of plushies, claymation, pixel art, and bento boxes: jeffpaul.com/2025/08/wapu...
#WordPress #Labubu #Wapuu #Wabubu
August 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I spotted a Labubu on the boardwalk and couldn’t stop thinking: what if Wapuu + Labubu = Wabubu?
I asked ChatGPT to help me visualize the mashup and things spiraled into a multiverse of plushies, claymation, pixel art, and bento boxes: jeffpaul.com/2025/08/wapu...
#WordPress #Labubu #Wapuu #Wabubu
I asked ChatGPT to help me visualize the mashup and things spiraled into a multiverse of plushies, claymation, pixel art, and bento boxes: jeffpaul.com/2025/08/wapu...
#WordPress #Labubu #Wapuu #Wabubu
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We're heading back to WCUS 2025, this year as a Contributing Sponsor as the WordPress Practice of Fueled. We’re excited to reconnect with longtime partners & friends in the WordPress community, deep dive into what’s new in WordPress, & share more about our expanded capabilities under our new brand.
Fueled Heads to WordCamp US 2025 · Fueled
Fueled is heading to Portland, Oregon for WordCamp US (WCUS) 2025, taking place August 26–29. WCUS is the premier WordPress conference in the United States, drawing thousands of developers, designers,...
fueled.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We're heading back to WCUS 2025, this year as a Contributing Sponsor as the WordPress Practice of Fueled. We’re excited to reconnect with longtime partners & friends in the WordPress community, deep dive into what’s new in WordPress, & share more about our expanded capabilities under our new brand.
Petey is undefeated
August 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Petey is undefeated
I agree with this hypothesis that you need to get through the learning curve with AI development tooling before getting any productivity benefits, but interesting to see study like this.
Wrote up some notes on that recent paper from METR "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity" simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/...
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
METR - for Model Evaluation & Threat Research - are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at OpenAI (see Wikipedia). They've previously contributed ...
simonwillison.net
July 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I agree with this hypothesis that you need to get through the learning curve with AI development tooling before getting any productivity benefits, but interesting to see study like this.
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Our team is helping make WordPress – and the open web – faster. Partnering with the broader WordPress Performance Team, we’ve shipped measurable gains in load times, server response, and Core Web Vitals. @joemcgill.bsky.social breaks it down.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/engine...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/engine...
Engineering for Impact: A Look Back at Fueled’s Work on the WordPress Performance Team
A deep dive into how our engineering team improved website performance across the internet by optimizing WordPress core.
www.linkedin.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Our team is helping make WordPress – and the open web – faster. Partnering with the broader WordPress Performance Team, we’ve shipped measurable gains in load times, server response, and Core Web Vitals. @joemcgill.bsky.social breaks it down.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/engine...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/engine...
Storybook
May 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Storybook
Fun to see first hand how this team is managing such a widely used plugin.
5M+ active installs. 7 years of partnership.
Site Kit brings Google tools like Analytics, Search Console, and AdSense into WordPress. We helped make it. We still help scale it.
📘 Read our new case study: fueled.com/work/google/
Site Kit brings Google tools like Analytics, Search Console, and AdSense into WordPress. We helped make it. We still help scale it.
📘 Read our new case study: fueled.com/work/google/
Google Site Kit Development • Fueled
Our 10up WordPress practice worked with Google to create Site Kit, bringing tools like Analytics and AdSense into the WordPress dashboard.
fueled.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fun to see first hand how this team is managing such a widely used plugin.
This exactly. This team has become a complete mess. Blow it up. Restart.
Unwatchable. Untenable.
May 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This exactly. This team has become a complete mess. Blow it up. Restart.
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🗞️ Big news: 10up has officially unified under the Fueled name, with a bold new brand, mission, and vision for the future. 10up is now the brand of Fueled’s enterprise WordPress practice.
10up.com/blog/2025/ne...
10up.com/blog/2025/ne...
May 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🗞️ Big news: 10up has officially unified under the Fueled name, with a bold new brand, mission, and vision for the future. 10up is now the brand of Fueled’s enterprise WordPress practice.
10up.com/blog/2025/ne...
10up.com/blog/2025/ne...
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Chicago Bulls intros trigger nostalgia in Millennial men at a firmware level, it's impossible to not look up old NBA Finals intros on YouTube after thinking about them.
Pope confirmed a Bulls fan, I'm sure he loves you cutting videos of him coming out to Sirius
May 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Chicago Bulls intros trigger nostalgia in Millennial men at a firmware level, it's impossible to not look up old NBA Finals intros on YouTube after thinking about them.
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the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
May 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
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The body and blood of Christ
May 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The body and blood of Christ
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They hated Illinois Nazis as well.
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
They hated Illinois Nazis as well.
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Search is changing fast. AI-powered answers are replacing clicks — and most brands aren’t ready.
📄 Fueled+10up wrote a whitepaper to help you stay visible in a world of AI Overviews and zero-click results.
fueled.com/blog/search-...
📄 Fueled+10up wrote a whitepaper to help you stay visible in a world of AI Overviews and zero-click results.
fueled.com/blog/search-...
May 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Search is changing fast. AI-powered answers are replacing clicks — and most brands aren’t ready.
📄 Fueled+10up wrote a whitepaper to help you stay visible in a world of AI Overviews and zero-click results.
fueled.com/blog/search-...
📄 Fueled+10up wrote a whitepaper to help you stay visible in a world of AI Overviews and zero-click results.
fueled.com/blog/search-...
Nice idea @peterwilson.cc! But now that I know that I've contributed to over half of all WordPress releases, I feel old: peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...
I've added a page to my website to show a history of a person's contributions to WordPress Core and the props they received in each release. peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...
WordPress Contribution History - Peter Wilson
Review an individual contributor's history of props to WordPress Core and the credit they received in each release.
peterwilson.cc
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Nice idea @peterwilson.cc! But now that I know that I've contributed to over half of all WordPress releases, I feel old: peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...
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Fueled+10up’s @joemcgill.bsky.social joined Do the Woo to talk about WordPress 6.8 performance improvements and the power of first-time contributors in open source. Check it out: dothewoo.io/first-time-c...
Exciting Highlights of WordPress 6.8 Release and Community Impact
Join us as we celebrate WordPress 6.8 with insights from experts, community contributions, and new enhancements for creators and developers.
dothewoo.io
April 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Fueled+10up’s @joemcgill.bsky.social joined Do the Woo to talk about WordPress 6.8 performance improvements and the power of first-time contributors in open source. Check it out: dothewoo.io/first-time-c...