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  • Auto-Upgrading users in WordPress

    I wrote some terrible and insecure code to make WordPress users administrators.

  • iPhone – Day 4

    I feel like I’ve stepped back in time years with iOS notifications.

  • iPhone – Dawn of The First Day

    Using an iPhone is like trying to read a newspaper in a dream. It feels familiar, but so far away.

  • iPhone – The Prequel

    My old Android phone is dying, so I’m forcing myself to try an iPhone for two weeks.

  • Logging Post Status Transitions in WordPress

    There’s a simple solution I found to log all post status transitions in post meta.

  • Whistler

  • Validating WordPress attachments with WP-CLI

    I recently worked on migrating a site to a different server and for one reason or another, some of the images did not come over properly. While I could have just re-downloaded and re-imported all of the media, it would have taken quite a while since the media library was well over 100Gb. Instead, I…

  • Game Developer Barbie

    Game Developer Barbie is coding what looks to be a mobile Java-based Candy Crush clone in a Windows XP IDE. Sadly, that sounds pretty accurate.

  • This is why I Ad Block

    An article served an ad that hijacked my browser and would not let me go back.  I had to kill the Chrome App and started fresh.