Developer, Fisherman, only distantly related to Dale
Developer, Fisherman, only distantly related to Dale
I was recently working on a project using Laravel Sanctum personal access tokens for API authentication. One odd thing I noticed was that a subset of requests coming in seemed to take 5-10x longer than others. Digging into them, I…
Occasionally when building a WordPress plugin, you may want to have the plugin immediately show its settings page after activation. I don’t typically like this practice because it’s an unexpected change to the standard WordPress user experience, but in certain…
Fitting to the perpetual status of this blog, I started writing this post in November of 2018, but never finished it. However, I recently starting listening to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast and it got me thinking about it again, so…
Here are the slides and resource links for my Jumping Into JavaScript talk at WordCamp Sacramento. I want to apologize to those who attended for the shortened talk. I wanted to do some demos at the end of using build…
Yesterday afternoon we made the tough decision to say goodbye to our dog, Fern. In recent weeks she’d gotten more picky about her eating. She’d always been different than most labradors, who will eat every last crumb of whatever you…
I had an old coworker reach out today about the multisite network I used to work on at UNC. It’s set up as a subdomain installation and new sites that were being created were not automatically being set to HTTPS…
Depending on your server setup, there may be tests in the new WordPress Site Health tool that are not relevant to your site and will never pass. Here is how to disable individual tests so you can get back to 💯
We wrapped up a successful WordCamp Raleigh earlier today and I figured I should write a quick post about it while it was still fresh in my mind. I also wanted to make sure I got a copy of my…
A common trend in complaints about the new editor is that the equivalent process in the classic editor was faster and required fewer steps. I think in most cases this isn't true.
To facilitate working on WordPress, I wanted to set up both PHP debugging using xDebug and Javascript debugging using Chrome within VSCode for WordPress-Develop.