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Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.

Where Can I Watch? 1.6.0: Currently Watching

August 24, 2026 / Tom

Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question:

Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch?

But over the last few releases it slowly turned into something else, too. Once you can save shows, track them by episode, and see what airs today, the app stops being a lookup tool and starts being the place you keep track of what you’re watching.

Which created a new problem – one I kept running into myself: I could open the app and see everything I was tracking, but not where I actually was in any of it. I’d start an episode, get pulled away, come back a few days later, and spend time figuring out which one was next.

1.6.0 is about fixing that.

Using Code Review Personas in Claude Code

August 17, 2026 / Tom

If you ask Claude Code to review a changeset, you’ll get something useful. You’ll also, eventually, get something like this:

Consider your error handling here. This could be more performant.

It’s not wrong but it’s saying much. Feedback like that could apply to almost any code in any language written at any point in the last few decades.

It doesn’t know that this is a web app where the real risk is an unsanitized $_POST value flowing into a database call, or that this is an iOS app where the concern is a retain cycle in a closure.

Generic code gets generic review.

Remove Empty Shortcodes: And Do It in All the Places

July 27, 2026 / Tom

A couple of weeks ago, I shared Remove Empty Shortcodes 1.1.0, which improved the plugin to do the one thing it exists for again: strip out the inactive shortcodes a deactivated plugin or page builder leaves behind. It worked. It just didn’t work everywhere.

1.2.0 is where “everywhere” finally means everywhere.

Where Can I Watch? 1.5.0: A Richer Detail Page, and Search by Person

July 20, 2026 / Tom

For the last few releases, I’ve ended these posts the same way: with a promise that a detail-page overhaul was coming. Ratings, runtime, a clearer view of which of your services actually carry a title. With 1.5.0, it’s here, along with one feature I’ve wanted for a while: searching by the people in front of the camera.

Remove Empty Shortcodes: Now It Removes the Shortcodes That Were the Whole Point

July 13, 2026 / Tom

Back in February, I wrote about Remove Empty Shortcodes 1.0.0 in which the plugin includes the admin scanner, a real test suite, and automated deployment to WordPress.org.

Then a bug report was submitted on the wp.org forums leading to 1.1.0.

Where Can I Watch? 1.6.0: Currently Watching

Using Code Review Personas in Claude Code

Remove Empty Shortcodes: And Do It in All the Places

Where Can I Watch? 1.5.0: A Richer Detail Page, and Search by Person

Remove Empty Shortcodes: Now It Removes the Shortcodes That Were the Whole Point

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