👋 I’m Derrick, and this is my WordPress Blarg.

I’m a Professional Services Engineer for WordPress VIP. I’ve been with Automattic/VIP since 2015, and enjoy it every day!

On this site I mostly post absolute stupid garbage. You have been warned.

Blarg Posts

A Trio of Pibooth Plugins

May 29, 2025
Rescuing Tampermonkey Scripts from a LevelDB Backup

April 30, 2025
Stop WordPress From Sending Emails (And Log Them Too!)

March 31, 2025
How I Saved My MacBook Pro From Bad RAM

February 28, 2025
Automatic Admin Login for WordPress, A Really Bad Idea

January 30, 2025
Get OctoPrint Status via Bash

December 31, 2024
Syntax Highlighting SQL in Terminal

November 28, 2024
Super Simple OpenAI PHP Class

October 28, 2024
Capturing MacOS Settings Changes

September 30, 2024

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