Hi, my name is Jonathan.
I am a developer advocate and educator from Cape Town, South Africa with a passion for open-source software.
I work at Automattic as WordPress developer advocate, creating educational content for WordPress, and my focus is on developer-related content.
This site is my personal blog, where I write about all sorts of things, but mostly with a focus on web development.
2025 was the year I tested every AI agent I could find and eventually settled back to using GitHub Copilot for building personal projects.
A few days ago, I shared my experiments with local, open-source AI models using Ollama and the WP AI Client. While Ollama offers a fantastic solution for running local models and accessing cloud-based open source options, I found myself wanting easier access to a broader range of commercial and proprietary models as well. That’s when…
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I’ve been spending quite a bit of time digging into the WordPress AI Client and PHP AI Client as part of my research for a blog post on the WordPress Developer blog. While working on my demo code for the post, I wondered if it would be possible to use these clients with local AI…
I had some free time this past weekend (a rare occurrence), so I was able to spend a little time adding features to my WordPress development utilities.
Here are four small, WordPress development-focused apps I built using AI. Each one scratches a specific itch.
Recently, the creator of Node.js posited that “the era of humans manually writing code is officially over.” So I thought I’d share my thoughts on what I think the future of software development could look like.
Slides and notes from my talk “WordPress in 2025 – Innovation meets refinement” at the WP Joburg December meetup. Slides Notes
One of the things that I discovered when I joined Automatic is that we have this amazing professional development benefit, and this covers a wide variety of things. There are courses and learn ups you can take within the company, you can expense books and learning courses. But the one thing that really, really worked…