Eric Mann

🚀 Launch day! Introducing DailyMedToday.com A daily Christian meditation platform to help you connect with Scripture and grow in faith. 🧵 Thread on what I've built and why...

@cassidoo I'd highly recommend Jamis in general. The Renegade line is great. I have one of the lower end ones (I'm cheap) and it's solid both for road biking (i.e. commute or for fun) and the occasional dirt or gravel path.

My bike was stolen 🙃 Does anyone have recommendations for a casual rider? I mostly ride around the city as a transportation option or to just enjoy the day, so I don't need anything fancy, but something that won't fall apart would be nice. I had my bike for like 15 years 😅

Helping my toddler get dressed tonight and his arms got stuck in his pjs. Perfect opportunity. Channeling my inner @nzfilmmaker "I see you fell for my tickle trap! Works every time!" No. I won't show him the source material... He's only 4 ... Eventually tho ... #vldl

Quiet launch of book 1 of a series I'm writing and self publishing for my kids. jumpingduckmedia.com

Just learned that, somehow, an old WordPress site of a defunct business of mine is still working. And someone in Bulgaria bought my lapsed domain and pointed it at said site... Ugh. This is not gonna be fun to unwind.

2026 is already my most active year ever on GitHub. Wow.

Open question for #WordPress folks: if you could interact directly with an LLM from your theme or plugin (directly, not via external API calls)what would you use that capability for?

@jeffr0 As for what I'm using them for: - text embeddings for semantic analysis - code generation - ticket decomposition from technical specs - regression test automation - code review - automated documentation I also use a bunch of custom LoRAs for consistent image generation.

@jeffr0 I've been using the Qwen family of models for various things, played briefly with Devstral (but it was too slow on my hardware). The MoE models give a good balance of speed and quality.

I'm asking on behalf of Eric Karkovack of The WP Minutes since he's writing something about this topic. "Anyone out there using an open-source/locally-installed AI model? What are you using and what do you think of it so far?"

Built a Claude skill to keep track of and merge Dependabot PRs to keep my systems patched. A first run yielded 82 patches I've just ignored over the past 7+ years. Color me embarrassed.

Nope. I do what I do because I was wired to build. And I'd keep building. But it would make life for my family a lot easier. And expedite the speed with which I could ship.

Read all about the network and why it matters in the first part of my series demystifying Canton => eric.mann.blog/what-is-canton…

I've been building infrastructure in the crypto space for a few years now. Most recently I've pivoted to Canton. You should know know why ...

So glad to not work there anymore. They had promise, but if that's the level of asshattery steering the ship, it'll never get out of port to begin with. I was the 14th employee to leave the team. But the first ever to quit. Tells you something, huh?

He asked someone outside of the team to review my profile. Outsider couldn't see my PRs. Or my contributions on team-private repos. Just a quick, 3-commit repo I stood up to demonstrate a concept for an article. But that was enough for him to damn me.

I've been writing a monthly security column for PHP Architect since December 2017. Most columns include code. Sometimes the code is too much for an article so I'll include a snippet and publish the full thing on GitHub for free instead.

@photomatt A wise man once told me, 1.0 is the loneliest number. And that usage is like oxygen for ideas. In other words - when do we get to see it, sir? ;-)

I have never in my life wanted to build a hardware device, but I think I have an idea for a hardware device, and I can't stop thinking about it.

Read more about how I built it on my (WordPress) blog: eric.mann.blog/building-a-rar…

What do you think? Would you use something like eamann.com for a site?

Someone asked me if my new portfolio site was WordPress. It's not. I wanted to experiment with Astro. But I'm debating baking it into a WP theme anyway.