👋 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

Stopping WordPress User Registration Spam

May 18, 2023
Supercharge Your Clipboard with a Shell Function for iTerm2

April 6, 2023
More Garbage Sysadmin: Reboot Linux Server on Kernel Panic

March 8, 2023
Gathering database performance with WP-CLI

February 22, 2023
Get First Date of Week in Google Sheets, When the Week of the Year is Related to the Row Number

January 2, 2023
Command Timing in ZSH

December 21, 2022
Limiting Featured Image Dimensions in WordPress

November 17, 2022
Half Baked Idea: Limiting WordPress Image Upload Sizes

October 30, 2022
Dall-E 2 Outpainting Experiment

September 2, 2022

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