Yes, there are different approaches. However, all themes share at least one common file: functions.php Developers can use functions.php to add custom code snippets. You can enable or disable specific WordPress features, or change how they work. The same goes for plugins like WooCommerce. Some themes include custom functions, which you can also edit via a child theme's version of the file.
Many AI projects fail. The reason is often simple. Teams try to rebuild last decade's applications but add AI on top: A CRM system with AI. A chatbot with AI. A search engine with AI. The pattern is the same: "X, but now with AI." These projects usually look fine in a demo, but they rarely work in production. The problem is that AI doesn't just extend old systems. It changes what applications are and how they behave.
I'll detail out these additions to Shadcn CLI 3.0 - namespaced registries, private registry, enhanced search and discovery, and MCP server integration. Let's get right into it. What are registries? Think of a registry as a component library store. It's a place where UI components (like buttons, forms, cards) are stored and can be downloaded. Before 3.0, Shadcn only had one "store" (the default Shadcn registry). Now you can have multiple stores.
AI is able to build things in minutes or even seconds that would take humans hours to do. But its biggest strength is also its biggest flaw. AI is, at its core, a tool used to imitate human knowledge in an advanced capacity. So while it's able to produce work faster, it also inherits all our biases. It's important to address these biases when building products to ensure that what we're developing can be used by everyone.
Great developer experience feels amazing, until your design system starts breaking down. Here's why good DX isn't enough and what makes teams scale successfully. Peter Aideloje Oct 14, 2025 9 min read Discover what's new in React 19.2, which features long-awaited features like the Activity API and the useEffectEvent Hook.
In 2000, Flash websites proliferate, blogging expands, social news sites like Slashdot gain influence - all of this while the dot-com bubble slowly deflates and Napster dominates headlines. After the hype and fear of Y2K (a.k.a. the Millenium bug) quickly faded in January 2000, the internet continued its mostly joyful rise in the culture. Sure, the dot-com bubble got pricked in March and then slowly deflated, but the web itself didn't stop growing.
🔹 What is an Accumulator? In Play, an Accumulator represents a streaming computation that consumes incoming request body chunks and eventually produces a result. Its type is: Accumulator[E, A] E: the type of incoming chunks (often ByteString) A: the final result once the stream completes (often a Result) Think of it as a pipe: It gathers chunks of request data → processes them asynchronously → produces a final response.
Welcome to Friday Links #29. This week we spotlight pragmatic React 19 patterns, sharp TypeScript techniques, and productivity-boosting DX utilities. Expect bite-size performance lessons, a few opinionated hot takes, and copy-paste snippets you can ship today. NPM Security Best Practices Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI How to build with Nano Banana: Complete Developer Tutorial
I realized the image-set() function is completely broken when it comes to responsive images. It appears not to be equivalent to the responsive img html element, because you can't use image width, just pixel density or format. Is there a reason why they didn't just mirror what we can do with img (and srcset) ? We could get rid of media queries for a few contexts. Did someone find a way around this ?
Still, his creation keeps growing, absorbing our reality in the process. If you're reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting. He's the necessary condition behind everything from Amazon to Wikipedia, and if A.I. brings about what Sam Altman recently called "the gentle singularity"-or else buries us in slop-that, too, will be an outgrowth of his global collective consciousness.
I started thinking about a career in tech in middle school. I was born with neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes tumors to grow on nerves.As a preteen, I was introduced by a school nurse to an organization called the Little Baby Face Foundation that helped treat the tumors. I knew then I wasn't going to let my condition affect my career path.
I have a website ( hutchinsclan.com). I am trying to add a forum to the site. The forum is based on Simple Machines Forum (SMF) which requires a sql database. The database is created as a result of installing the forum. I have successfully installed the forum on my localhost server. It works without error (so far ). I am so new to this technology that I didn't know that I had to upload the db separately from the website files.
Web accessibility ( a11y) isn't an easy topic. For years, I've listened to conference talks about this important subject, identified with its importance, but somehow never managed to get started. In contrast to let's say, Australian developers (due to the Disability Discrimination Act), I haven't been forced to incorporate a11y into my projects since I work for a German employer with European customers.
We don't often set the height of elements that contain arbitrary content. We usually let elements like that be as tall as they need to be for the content. The trouble with that is we haven't been able to animate from a fixed number (like zero) to whatever that intrinsic height is (or vice versa). In other words, animate to auto (or other sizing keywords like min-content and the like).
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek revealed it spent only $294,000 training its R1 model far below the hundreds of millions claimed by U.S. rivals. Using 512 Nvidia H800 accelerators, the company trained R1 in just 80 hours. The release of R1 earlier this year rattled tech markets, even denting Nvidia's valuation. DeepSeek also acknowledged limited use of A100s and defended model distillation, stressing it makes AI more accessible despite U.S. accusations of copying OpenAI's work.
Excel Grid Library is a lightweight yet feature-rich jQuery plugin that allows you to create professional, interactive, Excel-style data grid s (spreadsheets). What we found particularly useful is its ability to handle real-time calculations. You can define cells with formulas that reference other cells, and the grid automatically tracks these dependencies. When a value changes, any dependent cell recalculates instantly.
