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Another year, another adventure! After the whirlwind of remote work, video calls, and the occasional “Can you hear me now?” moments that defined our year, the WPRiders team was ready for 2025 Team Building. But this time, we had a radical idea: what if we just… relaxed? After last year’s adrenaline-packed adventure in Colibița (ATVs! […]

You know that moment when you fire up Docker Desktop and suddenly your MacBook transforms into a space heater? Fans spinning at maximum RPM, battery draining faster than you can say “docker-compose up,” and your lap getting uncomfortably warm during those important client calls. Here’s the thing—it doesn’t have to be this way. OrbStack changes […]

TL;DR We tested VS Code + Copilot Enterprise against JetBrains AI (PhpStorm) on five fronts: setup, speed, code quality, WordPress awareness, and teamwork. Copilot in VS Code feels snappy – low friction, quick hints, great for small fixes and day-to-day flow. JetBrains AI goes deeper – strong cross-file context, refactors, inspections, and solid WordPress/PHP tooling […]

TL;DR AI tools speed up and standardize documentation—generating docstrings, API specs, and READMEs in seconds, keeping docs synced with code and reducing errors; choose by language support, IDE/Git integration, and real-time vs batch fit, and always gate AI output with PR reviews to avoid drift. You know that sinking feeling when you realize you’ve spent […]

TL;DR Cursor AI promises faster coding, but experienced developers were actually 19% slower despite believing it sped them up by 20%. After 30 days of testing, it excels at backend tasks and boilerplate generation but struggles with complex frontend work. Success requires mastering prompting techniques, using @tags and .cursorrules files, and investing 50+ hours to […]

You know that sinking feeling when you’ve sent out dozens of resumes and hear nothing back? You start questioning everything—maybe your experience isn’t good enough, maybe you’re aiming too high, maybe the job market is just brutal right now. Here’s the thing: your qualifications might be perfect, but your resume could be failing a test […]