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Behind the Scenes
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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 once took down the login system for about a hundred people scattered across the country, coast to coast to coast, with…
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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…
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Behind the scenes: the WooCommerce bug that hid from its own test
The week I almost shipped a WooCommerce fix that would have quietly undone itself, landed two open-source merges, and audited my whole…
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What fixing other people’s WordPress plugins taught me about my own code
Eighteen pull requests, one merge, and a three-word thanks. What a week of contributing to WordPress plugins taught me about my own…
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Behind the scenes: eight WordPress themes to full-site editing, and a podcast that took six tries
The week I converted eight Colophon themes to full-site editing, cut the first Declamatio podcast after six takes, and tagged 28 posts…