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At WordPress.com, writing isn’t just a task. It’s how we think. Automattic is a globally distributed company, which means our work is almost always done asynchronously. For us, written communication is oxygen. But that communication is not built around email. Instead we use a homegrown internal blogging tool. Since every piece of our writing lives as a blog post that will stay published and searchable forever, we need to write clearly and succinctly. 

The team at Jetpack AI started wondering if there was a writing tool that could help everyone at Automattic, from right inside the WordPress editor. Rather than search externally, we built one. And today we’re excited to share it with you. Say hello to Write Brief with AI from Jetpack.

Meet Write Brief with AI

Internally, we called this tool Breve—Latin for “brief.” It started as a hack week project and caught on across the entire company. In fact, we saw just how useful and beloved it quickly became and decided to release it into the world. Write Brief with AI is available for free (while in beta) for all WordPress.com plans and users.

What can Write Brief with AI do?

• Measure readability. Check how readable your writing is with a simple grade score. Our research shows you should aim for a score of 8-12 for the highest readability. (The lower the number, the better.) The tool calculates your score as you type.
• Tell you about long-winded sentences. Long sentences tire readers. Write Brief with AI highlights those examples so you can break them down. You can even ask Jetpack AI to simplify them for you.
• Boost your confidence. Writing needs to be strong and clear. This tool highlights words that sound uncertain, like “possibly,” “might,” or “could.” Replace them with more assertive alternatives to make your point confidently. Or, ask Jetpack AI to remove them for you with one click.
• Simplify your vocabulary. Complex words can bog down your message. The tool highlights complex words like the ones found in plainlanguage.gov and suggests simpler alternatives, keeping your writing clear and direct. 

Seamless WordPress.com integration

Write Brief with AI works right within the WordPress editor, handling blocks, nested blocks, patterns, and more. It’s an editing tool built to streamline your writing process directly in your familiar workspace. Write, edit, blog, directly from WordPress.

Simply click the Jetpack icon on the top right of your screen, and Write Brief with AI will get to work based on what’s check or unchecked in the sidebar.

We’re just getting started

We’re constantly improving and refining our platform based on your feedback. Write Brief with AI is just one step in our journey to make writing with WordPress even better. We’re excited for you to join us in this new chapter. Try it out in the post or page editor today and let us know what you think. Or click below to learn more. 

For this release, Write Brief with AI is available exclusively in English. We’re working hard to expand language support in future updates.

Read more https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/08/06/write-brief-with-ai/

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The Laravel framework provides a bunch of helpful test traits that make our lives easier, such as migrating databases, setting up Faker, removing middleware, and more. When writing feature tests in Laravel, the base TestCase class inherits the framework's TestCase class. In this class, is the base setUp template is called in PHPUnit:

protected function setUp(): void
{
$this->setUpTheTestEnvironment();
}

The setUpTheTestEnvironment() method—found in the TestCase's InteractsWithTestCaseLifecycle trait—does a few things:

• Clear resolved Facade instances
• Refreshes the application
• Boots testing helper traits
• Sets the Model class event dispatcher instance
• Marks that the setup has run

The part that I want to focus on is the setUpTraits() method, which recursively returns traits on the instance. This method includes some internal framework trait checks and calls methods on those traits if they're used:

if (isset($uses[RefreshDatabase::class])) {
    $this->refreshDatabase();
}

if (isset($uses[DatabaseMigrations::class])) {
    $this->runDatabaseMigrations();
}

// ... etc

At the end of the method, it loops through all the traits and checks for the existence of a setup/teardown method that matches the trait name:

foreach ($uses as $trait) {
    if (method_exists($this, $method = 'setUp'.class_basename($trait))) {
        $this->{$method}();
    }

    if (method_exists($this, $method = 'tearDown'.class_basename($trait))) {
        $this->beforeApplicationDestroyed(fn () => $this->{$method}());
    }
}

If you had a MyUsefulHelper trait on a test class, the method_exists check would look for these methods:

public function setUpMyUsefulHelper();
public function tearDownMyUsefulHelper();

What's neat about the trait setup methods is that you can avoid boilerplate code anywhere you want to use this trait in a test:

class MyTestCase
{
    use MyUsefulHelper;
    
    // This method is not needed if a `setUpMyUsefulHelper` method is defined.
-   public function setUp: void
-   {
-       parent::setUp();
-
-       $this->initMyUsefulHelper();
-   }
}

If your application has useful helpers, setup code, etc., using these hooks can clean up your code, and you don't have to remember to manually initialize the trait's setup. For example, perhaps you have factory code in multiple tests that sets up users, permissions, and roles. Your setup code could be moved into a reusable trait that automatically sets everything up before each test.

Recently, I created a trait to interact with a Wiremock server that required some setup and teardown logic, such as defining custom mocked request/response pairs (and cleaning them up afterwards). I created an InteractsWithWiremock trait that automatically takes care of set up and reset automatically using Laravel's automatic setUp hook.

I love finding small nuggets like this in the Laravel framework code!

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The Active Sessions card for Laravel Pulse shows your application's total number of sessions, including Web and API users. Based on the pulse.active_session_threshold value, this card will display interactive color-coded indicators in the card based on these values.

This package includes the following main features with the initial release:

• Display active web sessions and percentage of users
• Display active API sessions (sanctum)
• Color-coded thresholds based on the configured session threshold (green, yellow, red)
• Passport support when only using one provider

To get started with this package, you can install it via Composer:

composer require vcian/pulse-active-sessions

Then you can configure the threshold using the pulse.php config file:

return [
    // ...

    'active_session_threshold' => 100,
];

Finally, add the pulse_active_session component to the Pulse dashboard.blade.php file:

<x-pulse>
    <livewire:pulse_active_session cols='4' rows='2' />

    {{-- ... --}}
</x-pulse>

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub. To get started with Pulse, follow the setup guide in the Laravel Documentation.

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You’ve probably seen it on social media and in headlines around the web in the last few years: the fediverse. But what is it, really? A Boba Fett theme park? A Kevin Federline production? Some sort of cheese pun? In this first episode of our new YouTube series, the Fediverse Files, designer, illustrator, and fediverse expert ‪Doc Pop‬ explains exactly what the fediverse is so that you can jump in today to start building community and sharing content.

To kickstart your efforts, we’re giving you 25% off your first year on a Creator or Entrepreneur plan.

Read more https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/08/02/what-is-the-fediverse/