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WordPress as your Personal Knowledge Base: alex.kirk.at

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Own Your Apps: Alternatives You Can Run in WordPress: alex.kirk.at

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WordCamp Companion: alex.kirk.at

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Personal Software Needs a Home: alex.kirk.at

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Why My WordPress? alex.kirk.at

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Friends 4.0: alex.kirk.at

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WordPress Development Without a Computer: alex.kirk.at

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I’ll speak about Telex and how to use Playground in your AI workflow at today’s WordPress Vienna meetup!

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Adapting Tools to Your Needs with AI: alex.kirk.at

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Proposal: an Interactive Mode for phpcbf: alex.kirk.at

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npm install playground-step-library: alex.kirk.at

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Can’t Follow You! alex.kirk.at

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Folien meiner #wcvie Präsentation: https://alex.kirk.at/wcvie-2025

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Starting my talk at #wcvie now! https://vienna.wordcamp.org/2025/session/dein-wordpress-kann-viel-mehr-als-du-glaubst/

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WordPress as a Refuge from Algorithms: alex.kirk.at

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Reblog of jeckman: WordPress and the Fediverse: alex.kirk.at

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I’m utterly underimpressed by the (totally invalid) WordPress PHP that Deepseek-r1 produces on my machine with ollama (compared to gpt3+ or llama3.2). Hard to understand the universal praise it’s getting elsewhere. Is everyone else getting better results than me?

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WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform: alex.kirk.at

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In case you noticed that the Friends Plugin was pulled from the WordPress.org plugin directory, it’s back again. Thanks for all the messages!

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Help Make (the) Friends (Plugin) Pretty \"\" : alex.kirk.at

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Setting Up a Local Ollama Copilot via LSP: alex.kirk.at

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Enhance Your WordPress Plugin: Add Live Preview using WordPress Playground: alex.kirk.at

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My Post Stats WordPress Dashboard Widget: alex.kirk.at

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cll Now Works With Local Files And Improves Output Formatting: alex.kirk.at

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