Written
On Maintaining WP-CLI
A written interview on a 25-year engineering path — from Luxembourg's civil service to freelancing and maintaining WP-CLI. Alain argues developers should stop reinventing the wheel, and reads WordPress as a content-creation system held back by PHP 4-era design decisions.
The piece walks through Alain’s career and his unsentimental take on the platform he helps maintain: WordPress is excellent at publishing but structurally constrained by legacy choices that still hamper efforts like Gutenberg. He makes the case for stricter, more structured APIs over WordPress’s organic procedural hooks — and offers his core advice to developers: assume any problem you hit has already been solved, and go learn how.