Hi there,
I’m Alex Kirk, a web application programmer and experienced lead of remote teams, based in Vienna, Austria. I speak German and English.
I currently work with Automattic. In my personal time, I created and maintain the Friends and the Enable Mastodon Apps plugins for WordPress.
Follow me via RSS or reach me via ActivityPub (Mastodon) at @alex@kirk.at (powered by Friends & EMA), or bridged on Bluesky at @alex.kirk.at
Learn more more about me and check out my talks & podcasts.
Recent Post Highlights
I write about various aspects of web applications and WordPress. For example:
- Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance
- WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform
- Reducing Our Dependency On Third-Party Platforms For Our Online Activity
Last 5 Posts & more
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Friends 4.0
It has been baking for much longer than I wanted, but today I released the next major version of my Friends Plugin for WordPress. Focusing on ActivityPub The biggest change is a deviation from the original idea: Friendships between WordPresses have been removed. With ActivityPub (when the respective ActivityPub plugin is installed, too) we have
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WordPress Development Without a Computer
With AI coding assistants and WordPress Playground, you can now develop WordPress plugins from your phone. Here’s how to set it up.
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Posted in Web
I’ll speak about Telex and how to use Playground in your AI workflow at today’s WordPress Vienna meetup!
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Adapting Tools to Your Needs with AI
Posted in CodeThese days you can just fix and adapt incomplete tools that you encounter with AI like Claude Code!
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Proposal: an Interactive Mode for phpcbf
It can be very time consuming to resolve issues detected by PHP Code Sniffer. An interactive mode for phpcbf could make things much faster!
Find all of my posts in the archive.