How I Saved My MacBook Pro From Bad RAM

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How I Saved My MacBook Pro From Bad RAM

The story of how I used an EFI tool to disable faulty memory and save my laptop.
Automatic Admin Login for WordPress, A Really Bad Idea

This content presents a PHP snippet that forces automatic login to a WordPress site as the admin user. While it may be useful for local environments and testing existing data, it is strongly discouraged for production use due to security risks.
Get OctoPrint Status via Bash

I’m working on a module to add OctoPrint status to my zsh prompt, which I’ll probably write about in the future as a bigger post about my prompt customizations. To start with that though, I need to play around with accessing the API via curl. So here’s my super alpha version that will request the…
Syntax Highlighting SQL in Terminal

Do you ever find yourself doing some debugging with error_log() or its friends? Does that debugging ever involve SQL queries? Are you tired of staring at grey queries all the time? I have just the product for you! Introducing Syntax Highlighting SQL in Terminal! Brought to you by our friends at Large Language Models, Incorporated,…
Super Simple OpenAI PHP Class

I’ve been playing around with hooking up ChatGPT/Dall-E to WordPress and WP-CLI. To do this, I whipped up a super simple class to make this easier: I can generate images and get back text from the LLM. Here’s some examples ChatGPT made to show how you can use these: Example 1: Generating an Image This…
Capturing MacOS Settings Changes

Let me get this right out. I upgraded to MacOS 15 beta and it totally borked my machine. I had to do a full, fresh reinstall. Totally my fault, and I should have prepared better. So now, I’m trying to remember to capture my personal settings so I can use a shell script to restore…
PHPCS Anywhere!

Something that I do often is run PHPCS on code I’m working on, almost always inside a git repository. Even more likely is that PHPCS was installed via composer, which means it will live in $GIT_ROOT/vendor/bin. So I always end up doing something like ../../../vendor/bin/phpcs file.php which is hugely annoying. Which is why I made…
How To Restrict User to Self Posts in WordPress

To secure our private site while using a third-party WordPress REST API integration, I restricted the plugin user to its own posts with user_has_cap and allowed access to its revisions. I also used posts_results to mark non-qualifying posts as private. Here’s a sample implementation for similar needs.
Setting up Pibooth in 2024

Let’s go on an Open Source adventure to build a photo booth!