Robot outpolls Congressman after mishaps

`wp db check` / `wp db optimize` — the database health commands that get overlooked

A WordPress database doesn't tidy itself up over time. Spam comments pile up, expired transients linger, post revisions accumulate, and tables left behind by uninstalled plugins never quite go away.

• wp db check verifies table health by running mysqlcheck --check on each table
• wp db optimize defragments tables and reclaims disk space in InnoDB storage engine
• Running both commands regularly catches bloated tables and corrupted data before issues

2026-09-01 ·dev.to

Catalog Isolation: Background Removal and Manual Crop Trade-offs Explained

Short answer: use automated background removal for volume, then reserve manual crops for images where a wrong edge costs more than the bandwidth and review time.

2026-09-01 ·dev.to

Trump says data center opponents could 'end up backwards and poor'

2026-09-01 ·seekingalpha.com

NVIDIA Posts Linux Scheduler Patches To Further Boost SMT Performance On NVIDIA Vera

Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores...

• NVIDIA releases Linux scheduler patches to boost SMT performance on NVIDIA Vera processors.
• Patches make PE0 preferred sibling for Olympus cores using SDASYMPACKING SMT domain.
• Tests show throughput increases from 9.4 TFLOP/s to 10.1 TFLOP/s with patches applied.

2026-09-01 ·phoronix.com