Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy
Making the web more capable @Google. @WordPress core committer, maintaining @WPCLI. Speakers team lead @WCEurope 2025.
✨ Democratizing Performance ✨ Learn more about what the WordPress core performance team is doing to make it possible for everyone to have a fast website: pascalbirchler.com/democratizing-…
If you've liked Speculative Loading with prerendering, you'll like this: The new “No-cache BFCache” plugin for WordPress enables instant back/forward navigations, particularly while logged in. weston.ruter.net/2025/07/23/ins…
The Gemini CLI team is on 🔥 Really excited about what‘s in store! Go check out the new roadmap ➡️
When will the /deploy command be available in Gemini CLI? Now there's an answer. The Gemini CLI public roadmap is LIVE! 🗺️ github.com/google-gemini/…
Gemini CLI in Firebase Studio 💫 Gemini CLI provides a seamless, AI-powered experience without the need to switch contexts to a separate chat window.
Really excited to see how the adoption of @phpstan will improve the quality of the @WordPress codebase. Static analysis FTW! make.wordpress.org/core/2025/07/1…
Ooh, my Chrome DevTools extension for debugging Scroll-Driven Animations is approaching 3000 users … 🔗 bsky.app/profile/bram.u…
You may know that a new popover type recently landed. But what is it exactly? And why did we need it? I wrote a post all about it! Learn about popover=hint, how to use it today, and how it'll be even more handy with interest invokers in the future! una.im/popover-hint/
Whither CMS? I think the CMS industry is up for a massive change with the introduction of LLMs. Historically CMSs tend to be used at the long-tail of the web where there is little traffic, it's also the space where people might be more willing to use new tools.
30 days later: My experience co-organizing WordCamp Europe 2025 pascalbirchler.com/my-experience-… #WCEU #WCEU2025
WordCamp Kansai at Osaka is the only WC in Japan this year. If anyone is interested to speak/travel 😀 kansai.wordcamp.org/2025/call-for-… Call for Speaker – WordCamp Kansai 2025 @WCKansai
At #WCEU, we reviewed three websites live on stage. It was pretty well-received, and so we want to continue doing something like that, but on YouTube. If you want your website reviewed by Team @MyProgressPlan, please reply or DM me with the URL of a site you built or own!
This change just landed in Canary. I've updated my demos codepen.io/collection/yyY…
Heads up: interest invokers are getting a rename to better align with command invokers [interesttarget] --> [interestfor] interest-target-show-delay --> interest-show-delay (same for hide) I was kind of expecting this eventually, and now its been discussed in WGs
Gemini CLI is our new #OpenSource AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal! Access Gemini 2.5 Pro with 1M token context window, 60 requests/min, and 1,000 requests/day—at no cost with a free Gemini Code Assist license → goo.gle/3HW0jL0
Chrome 138 is here, featuring built-in AI APIs for translation, summarization, and language detection → goo.gle/4ehjP0t Also, check out the new CSS functions and adapt your web layout for foldable devices with the Viewport Segments API.
In 24 hours, @jameswlepage, @jeffpaul, @swissspidy and myself will be discussing AI and WordPress in a panel as part of the #TheAgencyAdvantage virtual conference. Happening on June 24 at 12pm ET. Join us: cloudways.com/en/agency-adva…
Feedback requested! What do you want for our next Gemma models? Which sizes should we target and why?
This is pretty neat news around the ecosystem. home.cern/news/announcem…
I/O Connect Berlin week starts with a banger. Magenta RT is a new open music generation model. Create and control music, jingles and other sounds, locally on your device! 🤯 🎵 800M open-weights model that runs on free-tier Colab 🚀 Generates 2 seconds in just 1.25 seconds (1.6x…
The @WordPress Security Team will be discontinuing updates to the WP 4.1-4.6 branches in July. As a reminder: only the most recent version of WordPress is actively supported. Currently, this is 6.8. Please update your sites today! make.wordpress.org/security/2025/…
📣 The Remote GitHub MCP Server is now in public preview! Connect your AI agents to GitHub context and tools—with easy setup and scoped access. ✅ Get all the details and try it out. ⬇️ github.blog/changelog/2025…
We’re working on something called Nested View Transition Groups … and we need your feedback! See the questions listed in the replies to this post: bsky.app/profile/martr.… Try it out in Chrome Canary + Exp Web Platform Features: codepen.io/bramus/full/og… #ViewTransitions #CSS