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Behind the Scenes
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Behind the scenes: Cloudflare error 20083 and a feed parser that said nothing
Cloudflare refused my www redirect with error 20083, and a news feed parser dropped two of five feeds without an error. What…
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Behind the scenes: two AI-assisted news sites, and the fact-checker that failed 28 times before it ran once
The rulebook I wrote before I built the sites said no 141 times in about two hours. Mining Dispatch and Hauler Daily…
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Behind the scenes: a second free WordPress block theme, and a website so people can find them
Masthead joins Quillwork on WordPress.org, my second free WordPress block theme there, plus a showcase site, two redesigns, and newsletter number nine.
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Behind the scenes: my accessibility checker was wrong three times before it was right
My new accessibility checker flagged every control on this site as broken. It was wrong three times before it was right, and…
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Tending thirty domains I’d half-forgotten I owned
A week spent tending the side domains I had half-forgotten I owned, meeting Claude’s new model Fable on real work, and letting…
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Behind the scenes: the week my own guardrails knew better than I did
I started the week planning to make my work sharper, and I ended it having been corrected four times by software I…
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Behind the scenes: the week my site kept telling small lies
A week of quiet gaps between what my site claimed and what it did: a podcast feed advertising missing audio, 230 archive…
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Behind the scenes: a forced WordPress security update, and a bug I filed against core
WordPress 7.0 shipped, and a major version is a confidence event before a feature event. How I kept courses, a new plugin,…
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The box under my desk that a hundred people were counting on
I kicked a beige PC under my desk and took down logins for a hundred people, coast to coast. Two weeks to…