Kaspars Dambis
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Building WordPress courses and enterprise-ready tools at @WPelevator. Previously Director of Systems Engineering @XWP. Blogging since 2007.
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Joined December 2008
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“Safari is the highest margin product Apple has ever made, accounts for 14-16% of Apple’s annual operating profit and brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google”
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The new types of bugs — AI prompt instructions.
On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We.
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RT @rudrastyh: Finally! 🎉 I tried to record and publish this course in 2023 but wasn't satisfied with the result and removed it completely.….
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RT @tnash: Calling all WordPress professionals be you a site admin, Developer or SysAdmin. Tomorrow is the release of Module 2 of WPsecuri….
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YunoHost is a friendlier cPanel for the modern web and non-technical people. Very refreshing!. Hosts should start offering pre-installed VPSes
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Another opportunity is around WordPress package distribution and signing. The public-private key identities would allow for a system similar to FAIR. In fact, there is a proposal to get a DID added for Nostr keys.
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The biggest opportunity I see is around micropayments. Imagine one-tap micropayments for content, plugins, themes and other items that we're currently just giving away for free. Heck, even AI crawlers could use that to pay for access to content. Unfortunately, the Lightning.
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Here is how WordPress already integrates with this network:. - WordPress sites can publish to the Nostr network and have an identity there so that others can follow it similar to RSS (see plugin). - WordPress sites can provide an email-like identity to.
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Over the weekend I researched the Nostr protocol and the community. It is a Twitter/ActivityPub/AT alternative (but so much more) that relies on public-private keys for identity and message signing, and decentralized relays for distribution. It allows extending the protocol.
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Today I learned that Docker on Ubuntu doesn't have log rotation enabled by default. I just cleaned out 20GB of logs 😅.
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Who here is on Nostr? Would love to follow you there, too! Please share your address or NIP-05 domain. I'm npub1s56tpp9rlprtcqeucazfqj76avqvfzfgvz5qkud74ekk8zpdx9hss09rt7 or kaspars@damb.is.
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Getting AI to review plugin submissions based on all the predefined criteria and historical info should be a no brainer. There are zero reasons to make theme and plugin authors wait these days.
@Feefyou @vovafeldman @remkusdevries @courtneyr_dev @KatieKeithBarn2 @ezsmith397 @WarrenLNaida @natmiletic @thekevingeary @DerekAshauer Does "Plugin bloat" refer to the sheer number of plugins, or an effect being had on existing plugins?. There are currently 401 plugins in the review queue.
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Wait until you see how many are doing this
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
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RT @fastly: AI bots now make up over 1/3 of web traffic — and they’re scraping your content for free. The Fastly + @TollbitOfficial integr….
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RT @eastdakota: Proud of the Cloudflare team working to build a sustainable business model for the AI-driven web. Happy Content Independen….
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Here is the product that @Cloudflare just announced: > "Upon sign-up with Cloudflare, every new domain will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, giving customers the choice upfront to explicitly allow or deny AI crawlers access.".
Making money with ads and consumer subscriptions will no longer work. Publishers need to create a system where all crawlers must pay for access instead of making deals with just a select few. Share the updside in a sustainable long-term way. Cloudflare is working on a system to.
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Over the weekend I vibe-coded a fix for the #xhprof PHP profiler extension which was SEGFAULTING due to a memory issue on shutdown. You can now safely exclude function names from profiling! I hope this gets merged and released with the PHP 8.4 support fixes that have landed
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