Author: Andrei Lupu
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I’m Exhausted by the AI Culture War
There’s a war happening in tech right now. On one side you have people who love vibe coding. On the other side, people who hate AI from the bottom of their hearts. And somehow I’m standing right in the middle, getting yelled at from both directions.
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My 2026 Tools Stack
It’s 2026 and I made myself a promise that I will blog more about technical web things. Nothing new because I do this every year, but this year I will also make a YouTube video for each article. This is the first “artico-video” in the series. Yes, I just invented that word.
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Claude: You are absolutely right!
As a developer who uses Claude to generate code, fix bugs, and come up with research ideas, I’ve noticed something quite amusing. Claude has a habit of saying “You are absolutely right” quite frequently. It’s become a bit of a meme on the internet, and there’s even a website dedicated to counting how many times…
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Is AI is making you dumb?
AI isn’t making you dumb—you’re just using it wrong. Exploring the real relationship between AI tools and intelligence in software development.
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The unnecessary “Pluginophobia” in WordPress
Once a year, a redundant topic reappears on Twitter within the WordPress Community, which sparks a weird fear of using too many plugins as add-ons. You will hear people trying to joke about the number of plugins some websites have. Or they will post memes about site makers who look into performance improvements after they’ve…
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A modern web stack for WordPress plugins or themes in 2024.
I think the deepest way of learning something is by attempting to write about it or to teach others and since I was out-of-date with this subject I’ve decided to do a freshup about what a WordPress plugin or theme should contain in its development repository.
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Before and Beyond Gutenberg
Hello reader, this article is the mirror of my presentation at WordCamp Bucharest 2018, and if this doesn’t make sense while reading it, then it did while I was spoking these words. As you can see from the title I want to talk about Gutenberg and how can we survive after WordPress 5.0 version, which may…
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My Journey at WordCamp Europe 2017
My fellows from Pixelgrade and I attended WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, and I must admit it was a blast. Again. Luckily, I haven’t lost anything this year. Yaaay! This was my first time in Paris, but visiting a vastly cultural city didn’t overcome my expectations as the event itself did. I admit that I’m not…
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Why testing your WordPress site with a Visual Regression tool?
After writing a dedicated article about Automated Testing, I moved to the next phase: Visual Testing. All the hard work helped me came out with a bunch of insights you might consider if you plan to test your WordPress site with a Visual Regression tool. I highly recommend doing so.
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Introducing Gridable — The Missing Grid Content Editor
This article is all about Gridable — the missing grid content editor which we hope that will stand as the next WordPress inline grid editor. In the last couple of months we (Pixelgrade crew and I) invested a lot of time and energy to make it happen, so hopefully, you will give it a try and…