Jessica Lyschik

@jessicalyschik.com

WordPress developer and core contributor, co-lead of the Twenty Twenty-Four default theme.

Wenn du wie ich remote, in einem großartigen Team, an einem coolen Produkt und mit spannenden Kunden arbeiten möchtest, dann wäre jetzt ein guter Zeitpunkt, dich bei der Greyd GmbH zu bewerben!

Pretty exciting news to share today. I don't always share with whom I'm partnering, but this time, it's special. I'm partnering with Greyd.Suite to consult them on strategic and technical topics.

A photo of me visiting the Greyd office with Mark Weisbrod and Jakob Trost.

I asked Cursor to help me add correct indentation to a file and while generating it, it ended up throwing an error. While it worked on other files yesterday, it's not working today. Anyone know any good resources how to use Cursor?

I was wondering why Twitter didn't work all day and no one else seemed to complain about it online, so I was curious... Turning off that one browser extension that made it halfway usable made it work again, so it looks like it's blocking viewing the content when the extension is active.

This week's learning: Safari is the new Internet Explorer. Added what I thought is an accessibility improvement? Safari just doesn't display those items anymore. Trying to use a z-index? Well good luck if the rendering stack is turning out what you want it to be... or not.

Almost as good as the fact that @jessicalyschik.com and @karmatosed.art are being sponsored to work on WordPress is the explanation of why they are sponsored: “If you rely on an open-source platform, you have a responsibility to support the people who make it better.” greyd.io/why-greyd-is...

Why Greyd is Sponsoring WordPress Core Contributors

Open-source needs more than goodwill. That's why we’re sponsoring WordPress leaders Tammie Lister & Jessica Lyschik—to invest in its future.

greyd.io

If they: -know everything about you -are always offering you things you’ve mentioned liking in the past -want to know where you are That’s not your significant other. That’s internet cookies.

I have been missing the "What's new in Gutenberg?" posts on the Make Core blog lately, as I found this always to be helpful when checking what just got merged. So I decided to ask if any help is needed and how to make these, and did one this past weekend: make.wordpress.org/core/2025/02...

What’s new in Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2?

This time, due to the smaller sizes of the releases, this post contains information for both the 20.1 (22 January) and 20.2 (5 February) releases. “What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the…

make.wordpress.org

Summarized my contributions to WP in January and shared a few thoughts like: We fix bugs so that the people who want to publish content can do so. Features are added with the idea that it will make it a bit easier or a bit more powerful. And it’s given away for free. aaron.jorb.in/my-january-i...

TIL that when having a word with ß (lowercase sharp s) and using text-transform: uppercase, it will always convert into SS (two uppercase regular s) instead of the capital version which is ẞ. The fun with special characters. 🙃