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Behind the Scenes
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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…
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Behind the scenes: a WordCamp US yes, and four machines that lied to me politely
A talk got accepted, an audit graded my writing against a rulebook nobody had read, and four of my own tools reported…
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Behind the scenes: the contact form that mistook my customers for bots
My contact form honeypot mistook autofilled humans for bots and binned their messages. A week of that, nine pull requests, and eleven…
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Behind the scenes: the nightly bot that kept un-fixing its own fix
My nightly autonomous WordPress agent spent a week un-fixing its own fix. What that bug, a made-up auction price, and nine deleted…