Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
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.
Continue readingFor 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.
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? has always answered a simple question: where can I actually watch this show or movie right now? The catch is that “right now” includes more than the subscription services you pay for.
A lot of content lives on free, ad-supported platforms like The Roku Channel, Tubi, Pluto TV, and the like. Those are legitimate, no-cost ways to watch something tonight, and the app was leaving them out.
Continue readingA few years ago I started building a thing called Backcast. The idea was simple: I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I wanted a way to back them up. I got as far as parsing OPML exports, writing some unit tests, setting up PHPCS, and documenting the whole thing on this blog. Then life happened, I lost the thread, and it sat untouched.
The itch never went away, though. I kept finding myself thinking, “I know someone said something about this on a podcast, but which one? Which episode? When?” Podcasts are full of ideas and I had no way to get back to them.
So I started over. Different project, different approach, same underlying frustration.
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