Chris Reynolds
@jazzsequence.com
(he/they) Senior Developer Advocate for @pantheon.io WordPress and OSS enthusiast TTRPG nerd Writer https://jazzsequence.github.io
I built actualplaydb.com over the weekend...from my phone. #ttrpg #ai
What I learned from building actualplaydb.com
I spent the weekend chasing a rabbit down a hole. I built an IMDB for actual plays…mostly from my phone. The thought process went something like this: Aabriya Iyengar has been in a bunch of live TTRPG actual plays, both the mainstream kind (Dimension 20, Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, Dungeons & Dragons official) and […]
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I guess the cat's out of the bag: I'll be speaking at #WCUS26! us.wordcamp.org/2026/more-bi...
More Big News! Meet the Third Wave of WordCamp US 2026 Speakers
We’re excited to introduce the next group of speakers joining the WordCamp US 2026 lineup! This latest wave explores some of the biggest conversations shaping WordPress today, from practical …
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The State of the Community survey is open through July 17! We want to hear about how YOU are feeling about the future of #WordPress. Take it, pass it on, and stay tuned for the results before #WCUS! www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/state-of-the...
The State of the Community - The WP Community Collective
The State of the Community survey aims to understand the current perspective of the people in and around the WordPress open source project community. The survey is open for responses from May 27 throu...
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My conversation on @seriouslybud.bsky.social is now live! I loved being able to share about family and relationships and travel. I'm excited to share this podcast appearance because it's so different from the sorts of things I'm usually talking about. seriouslybud.com/episode/chri...
Chris Reynolds on Homeschooling, Curiosity, Family, and Finding Purpose Beyond WordPress | Seriously, BUD? - Seriously, BUD?
Chris Reynolds shares his journey from growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area to becoming a developer advocate at Pantheon. Along the way, he discusses homeschooling his children, embracing lifelong...
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I don't care if the kids think he's wack or whatever. Ed Sheeran is still amazing.
New Sad Bastard Music Club coming on Monday. Subscribe to my very occasional emails to get it in your inbox. s3q.us/sad-bastard-...
Turns out I never cared that much about typing code. I cared about making weird shit on the web that did stuff.
I don’t miss not writing code
Five years ago, I was so burnt out, I didn’t think I had a future being a software engineer. Five years ago, I thought I couldn’t cut it. I didn’t have the chops. I couldn’t keep up. Coding was not fun. I began to wonder if it ever was fun. One of the arguments against […]
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So I legit like @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social (at least from everything I have heard so far) but y’all that are breathlessly saying that you’ve never heard anything like them before…y’all know math rock existed before them, right?
Rumors of WordPress' demise have been greatly exaggerated
The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS.
I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from a self-proclaimed 20 year agency veteran of WordPress saying that was it, they’re moving the entire agency off of WordPress and onto AI. Now, because I, too, am a 20 year veteran of WordPress, this kind of story catches my attention. He posted that they […]
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Can I just express how my development workflow/open windows has shifted dramatically over the past month? A lot of it (but not ALL of it) has to do with Claude Code. Previously, I would have a terminal window (I've been using Warp for a long time www.warp.dev/)...
Warp: The Agentic Development Environment
Warp is the platform for agentic development — a modern terminal and cloud agent platform used by 700K+ developers at leading enterprises. Explore docs, features, pricing, and more.
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It's been about a year since I drummed up the courage to go to my first aerials class. Here's some stuff I learned along the way.
Things I’ve learned from a year of doing circus
It’s just about a full year since I finally gathered up the courage to don short shorts and tights, expose parts of my body that are so white you’d need sunglasses against the glare, and flip myself upside down using only the power of my actual human muscles. And I’m still here, still doing it. […]
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Four WordPress nerds walk into a Podcastathon. All of them are on the board of a nonprofit trying to fix how open source contribution works. One of them is me.
The WP Community Collective on feeding humans into the boiler
This is a first for Community + Code: a full board meeting (almost), on the podcast. For this special Podcastathon episode, I sat down with three of my fellow WP Community Collective board members — Courtney Robertson, Sé Reed, and Jono Alderson — to talk about something I care about deeply and probably doesn’t get discussed […]
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I wrote a thread on AI and then i turned that thread into a post where I added some more thoughts.
Disclosing AI use
This is based on a thread that I posted to Bluesky that I decided to keep here for posterity. If you want to discuss on Bluesky, follow me at @jazzsequence.com and let’s chat. Let’s talk about AI. I’ve been using it a lot recently. It’s not that I don’t see or care about the environmental […]
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Let's talk about AI. I've been using it a lot recently. It's not that I don't see or care about the environmental impact, the human/social impact. I do. I strongly believe that we need regulatory bodies to apply rules and guidelines around how AI is used. But regulation moves slow and needs...
I spent way too long debugging why Claude Code wouldn't register WordPress MCP tools. The culprit? `enum` and `default` in JSON Schema. Zero error messages. Here's the full story of building the stdio proxy and getting 66 native tools working. 🧵
Teaching an AI to Read My Website (Over MCP)
For the last couple weeks, I’ve been building a headless Next.js frontend for this site — a project I’ve been calling jazz-nextjs. The idea is straightforward enough: keep WordPress as the content management layer (where I actually like writing) while serving the public-facing site through a modern React frontend hosted on Pantheon’s Next.js infrastructure. What’s […]
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No one: My brain: You know what’s weird? Tea is just dried leaves that someone decided to make wet again. No one: My brain: You think that’s weirder than someone who decided to break open a plant, dry out its beans, cook them, crush them up and then make THEM wet again??
The new @utahroyalsfc.com Swarm kit is fire 🔥 Can't wait to get mine! www.rsl.com/utahroyals/j...
The Swarm Kit | Utah Royals
The Official Website of the Utah Royals.
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🙌 eyyyy thanks for coming on and showing off your cool plugin @troychaplin.bsky.social!
Troy Chaplin@troychaplin.bsky.social · 5mo agoThanks to @jazzsequence.com for having me on a @pantheon.io stream today to talk about my work around accessibility and validation for #WordPress! Don't mind me, I'm just over here creating new issues for bugs and new features for Block Accessibility Checks. blockaccessibilitychecks.com
Yes, indeed, I did join @thewpcc.bsky.social Board of Directors as its Interim President. Here are some words about it.
Yes, I am the (interim) President of the WPCC
The cat is finally out of the bag. I was officially named Interim President of the WP Community Collective this week. When I joined the WPCC as a member last year, it was not too long after going to my first DrupalCon. DrupalCon Atlanta was enlightening for a lot of reasons. But most relevant to […]
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From the archive: jazzsequence.com/2010/02/vale... Throwback to the original greeting card holiday 💕
for valentine’s day
as today is yesterday was valentine’s day, and also, coincidentally for some, the traditional day of rest and reaffirming their faith in their chosen higher deity, i thought it would be appropriate to...
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@mike.herchel.com of @dripyard.com joined @pantheon.io’s Chris Reynolds @jazzsequence.com to unpack the future of the Drupal marketplace. They explored component-based themes, site recipes, and the push toward faster, commercial-grade builds. Catch the recap via TDT. 🔗 https://bit.ly/45y0Ag7
Dripyard Discusses Drupal Marketplace on Pantheon Livestream
Mike Herchel, founder of Dripyard, joined Pantheon’s Chris Reynolds in a recent livestream to discuss the evolving commercial ecosystem in Drupal. The conversation covered Dripyard’s role in the upcoming marketplace, component-driven themes, and inno...
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My current favorite style of social media post is boomers doing Gen Z slang. (Or is it Gen Alpha? I’m lowkey mid, no cap)
I know we all know, but I had to actually articulate this to myself last night… We’re 10 days into 2026. Already, the POTUS has declared his New Year Resolution was “world peace” and almost immediately bombed Venezuela, kidnapping the President and his wife. …
I sat down with @thewebprincess.bsky.social to talk cultural algorithms, implicit bias, WP Includes, and why our communities thrive when we stop guarding our corner of the pie.
Dee Teal on cultural algorithms, belonging and bias
A common theme in this podcast is the way that open source brings people together and it’s those communities that become far more powerful than the software that we initially got into. In this episode, I sit down with my friend Dee Teal, a Melbourne-based project manager, delivery leader and long time WordPress community member […]
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Just when you think Trump can’t sink any lower… Rob Reiner and his talented wife Michele were friends of ours. We collaborated on projects. Brad and I are devastated. We are in shock and grief. Sure, Rob opposed Trump, but this is so beyond the pale.
For the past 7 months, I've been running @communitycode.dev, a podcast that gives me an excuse to talk to cool people about what inspires them. It's been a great run & I'm looking at doing it all over again in 2026. Join me and be a guest on the show! communitycode.dev/be-a-guest/
Be a Guest - Community + Code
Everyone has a story to tell. If you are doing things on the internet (anything…really), I want to talk to you! Community + Code is a casual conversation that focuses as much (or more) on the who and ...
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The Gene that I honor is not a jazz musician representing a #WordPress release.
Gene
I apologize in advance for this post which is going to be all over the place. Yesterday, the latest major version of WordPress was released. WordPress names each version after a jazz musician and this release was named after Gene Harris. Gene. But naming a piece of software that I have worked in and around […]
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Being number one in WordPress isn’t the point — keeping the web open is. @mikedemo.bsky.social joins Community + Code to talk about bridging open-source communities, from Joomla to WordPress, and why collaboration beats competition.
Mike Demo on Open Source, Community and Vegan Food
If you’ve been to more than one WordCamp, odds are you’ve seen Mike Demo. He’s a Partnerships Lead at Hosting.com and a familiar face in the open-source world—someone who thrives on connecting people, projects, and ideas. Demo describes himself as a “lead handshaker,” a title that pretty much says it all: his work is about […]
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