My Monitors Kept Disconnecting, and the Culprit Was Embarrassing

So, I spent a good chunk of a Tuesday morning doing genuinely impressive forensic analysis of my Mac Studio's kernel logs—poring over USB enumeration failures, Thunderbolt controller topology, and IOKit device trees—only to discover that the cause of my monitors randomly going black was a Lightning cable sitting idle on my desk, plugged into nothing. Let me walk through this, partly because it might save you a few hours someday and partly as penance.

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Building Better Workflows with Claude and WordPress Studio

One of the most beneficial aspects of Claude and agentic development is being able to give it a persistent memory of how to interact with the codebase and what the codebase is. This will let you work faster and more efficiently -- after all, wouldn't you work faster if you were given an introduction to a codebase instead of just shown the code and told to 'figure it out'?

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How Rick Ellis, CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine changed my life.

How Rick Ellis, CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine changed my life. In the Beginning It was 2008. I had recently graduated college. My degree was in Information Systems, but I didn’t want to work in …

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Automate Your WordPress Theme Development

Create Block Theme Base for CBT Automatic namespacing with GitHub Actions Build tools automation Sass Support Playground Support Populating with Starter Content Starter Content Menus Is It Perfect? Late last year I started working on an ongoing project that involved turning out a number of FSE (Full Site Editing)-based themes rather quickly from provided Figma designs. (blockratize publishing) Whatever is a programmer to do but make sure I'm being efficient and not reinventing the wheel by creating a solid starter theme.

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How I Built WordUp: A Guide to Creating a macOS App

I realized recently that I don't do nearly enough about sharing some of the cool things I build. Or blogging. I don't do nearly enough of either. TL;DR: I just shipped my very first macOS desktop app called WordUp. I've used some desktop apps, such as CloudApp (now Zight) and CloudUp (which was acquired shortly after I joined Automattic…

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WP REST API vs GraphQL Performance

A client had recently pointed out to me a post detailing performance differences between the REST API that ships in WordPress Core, and WPGraphQL -- In it, it asserts that the difference between two similar queries running the REST API and WPGraphQL yields vastly different performance impacts: Below are screenshots of the same WordPress site asking for 100 posts from the WP REST API and 100 posts from WPGraphQL with the Chrome network tab open.

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