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With all of the advancements in AI, and other technologies not slowing down, it's getting even harder to feel like I'm staying relevant. Add to that the pressure to exercise and stay fit, work outside or around the home, and to be sure to retain some amount of leisure... How do you all do it? I see my gaming buddy logging hours of a video game. He works in defensive cybersecurity, so he makes quite a bit and is on-call. Thankfully for him, he works remote (I do not). But he has a family with tweeny triplets (!). He's just this past week mentioned ripping up carpet, last week he ran a trench to run electrical for a man-made pond he's installed with boulders that he moved by hand. Meanwhile I want to learn about n8n, take some AI courses (someone mentioned faster.dev here in the forums), work on personal (dev) projects, but also get things done around the house, and make sure to spend time with the girlfriend and make sure she's happy. I have not figured out a good time management scenario to balance these all out: House/property work. Friends and family time. Leisure time. Exerciise Paid work (job / income). Professional improvement and advancement. What are your tricks, or boundaries, to set time aside for each of these? Are you struggling like I am to properly afford time to each thing and not allow them to thoroughly overtake another's time commitment? Looking for revelations that some of you may have had during your careers or lifetimes to help you sort these things out! 🙃

Hey, built an OpenRouter engine for Fluency — lets you pick any model from their catalog (400+), including free ones. Install: drop the OpenRouter folder into site/modules/Fluency/app/Engines/, refresh modules, done. Fast models that work well for translation: google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite, google/gemini-2.0-flash-001, ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b. Free options: google/gemma-4-31b-it:free, meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free. Avoid big models like GPT-4o or Claude Opus — too slow for this. Zip attached. OpenRouter.zip

Hello, everyone. I was wondering if it wouldn't just be better to switch TinyMCE with SunEditor instead as the "official" WYSIWYG editor of ProcessWire. It's licensed under MIT and it outputs cleaner code. I'm not a developer, so I'm afraid I cannot create a module and implement it myself. I don't need it personally, but I'm sure there are people (clients) who do need a WYSIWYG editor.

This resonates. 20 years in development, still figuring it out honestly. Current reality: Day job 6 days/week, building PW modules in spare time. Not balanced, but intentional - grinding now to create options later. What actually helps: - Seasons, not balance - some months are 80% work, others need to be 80% recovery - Combine categories - coding for fun = leisure + professional growth - One rule: protect sleep and one full day off. Everything else is negotiable - Physical maintenance - injuries taught me this the hard way The AI/tech pressure to "stay relevant" is real, but burnout is worse. Better to have 3 solid productive hours than 8 exhausted ones. What's working for you so far?

Thanks for all the feedback, this is great. I just wanted to say ProcessWire has always been "back", never left. It's always been a long term project and never a fad project, so periods of rapid development and periods of slow development are normal, and I'm sure that cycle will always be the case. I've always been careful about making sure the project doesn't get bloated with short term things. So to make sure the quality is high over the long term, it's good to know when to go into rapid development, and when to let things simmer slowly. There's room for both. The other factor is that sometimes I have client work deadlines that I've got to give priority to because that's what keeps me in business, and able to keep investing in ProcessWire. I mention all this just because I don't want folks to be disappointed when there are weeks without any commits, etc., because that's unavoidable. For me this has always been a lifetime project, so ProcessWire isn't leaving or coming back, it's here to stay, as has always been the case.

Ok glad Tracy is fixed, but I would strongly advise against using PHP 8.0 - no security updates isn't worth it. Just report the issues to those module authors and deal with the deprecation warnings until they are fixed (or fix them yourself locally in the meantime).

I not owned module. I think not good idea storage 3 files 🙂

This week I've been doing a major overhaul of the /wire/core/ directory structure aimed at improving and adding documentation. Now all core classes that will receive their own API.md documentation also have their own directory. The /wire/core/ directory kind of resembles the /wire/modules/ structure now. In addition, new API.md files have been created for the Pages, Page, PageArray, Modules and Module, all of which also improve the online API reference documentation too, which is what those links are linking to. We'll continue adding more API.md documents every week. Every time a new API.md file is completed, it gets sent over to the WireTests module to verify that everything documented in the API.md works exactly as stated. So new tests have been committed to that module as well, and more will be getting added every week. In addition, ProcessWire now has a CLI (command line interface) installer. Installing ProcessWire is as simple as typing this from the command line: php install.php When you do that, it'll present you with the installation options (see below). For human users, the "Standard usage" option is likely to be best, while AI agents will likely prefer the "Alternate usage" option: Standard usage: php install.php --generate Generate ./install-config.php for you to edit php install.php --config install-config.php Install from settings in ./install-config.php Alternate usage: echo '{"dbName":"mydb",...}' | php install.php Install from settings in JSON string php install.php --json '{"dbName":"mydb",...}' Install using an inline JSON string Other: php install.php --help Display all options That last option "--help" displays a giant screen of options, so I won't repeat it here, but take a look if you are interested. New versions of FieldtypeTable, FieldtypeCustom, FieldtypeCombo and FieldtypeRepeaterMatrix next week. Lots more in progress here too so stay tuned! Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

@AndZyk Uiii, very nice. Was just wondering if it could get official that the core files are inside the vendor directory.

I use it all the time to upgrade to the very latest core commits - it doesn't need a version number jump for me. I just wish the modules worked the same way.

This looks amazing. Thanks for sharing!

One minor nitpick with this module is that if you're running the dev version of ProcessWire (lets say version 3.0.123) and that version receives additional commits/updates but without a version bump, you can't "upgrade" to it given how this module works. You can only upgrade when 3.0.124 dev version is available. Not a big deal for me since I have a bash script that takes care of pulling the latest from GitHub, however it would be nice to support getting the absolutely latest bleeding edge version with this module.

Yes, I know it well — great Dashboard module! I've used it on almost every project to keep the admin from feeling bare. But as projects grew, I kept hitting the same wall: customizing Dashboard meant writing PHP for each install, and the widget lists got unwieldy. Start (and its companion module Collections) came out of that frustration — the goal was a fully visual, no-code editor where you just drag, drop, and pick icons without touching any config files.

@wbmnfktr Thanks! This is great to hear, this kind of feedback makes my day. 🙂

This will retire my whole set of ProcessWire skills... and I love it! I really enjoy the pace and direction you, @ryan, and ProcessWire are going now. Let alone AgentTools in a fresh installation of ProcessWire does some magic with LLMs (from super cheap Mistral, Deepseek, to great models like Kimi 2.6, MiniMax 2.6, and to Opus 4.6/7 and Codex 5.4/5) which was NOT possible in that way 6 weeks ago. 🥰

Also added a check for ProCache so if maintenance mode is enabled and it detects ProCache is installed and enabled then the warning also tells the user to turn off ProCache - warning only visible in the admin. Also made strings translatable for the warning messages. I've not checked through this topic sorry for other suggestions but can do if I get time and there are still important things to look at just I needed a few quick fixes for myself for now (selfish I know). I will check out the other suggested module I saw too. @ryan perhaps we need a way to mark modules in the database as abandoned or as having issues? Because this one of mine hadn't been touched in a decade and wasn't working and made me feel bad as a result because people were trying to use it and the way my brain works (or rather doesn't) I must have seen issue reports coming in via Github but then got distracted so didn't realise there were that many when I checked. Perhaps we could have a system where folks with a certain reputation can mark a module on the site here as having issues so they get looked at/removed just not sure if anyone would volunteer for that.

I'm really hoping the "everything needs to be node/react/js" fad/hype dies off soon. Twice today on 'important' sites (one an airline booking site), the ajax/promise/whatever failed. Was left looking a never-ending spinner. Awkward as had no idea where my flight booking went. Don't get me wrong, JS is useful but like most things in life, please use in moderation