👋 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.

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Bash Script: Calculate before/after averages

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Meet The Plugin That Lists All Your Multisite’s Sites: Multisite Site List

September 29, 2023
Guerilla Ad-Blocking: Taking Back the Web with WordPress

August 30, 2023
Macbook Battery Stats in Your ZSH Terminal Prompt

July 19, 2023
Sending Prowl Alerts via Bash

June 10, 2023
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

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