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 few weeks back I shipped BurnRate. It’s a small macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude Code usage limits at a glance. It had a solid enough response and a some people dug it enough to use it daily (myself included, of course).
But there’s a problem: how do those people know when there’s a new version?
The answer, until now, was “they don’t.” They’d have to check in with me or the product page or just stumble into it.
Not exactly ideal
Continue readingVersion 1.0.0 aimed to solve a single problem: knowing what track just started without switching to Spotify. Occasionally though, there are times throughout the day I want to share a song with someone.
So in the latest build, I added a couple of additional features the most significant of which is to make it easier to grab a link to the currently playing song.
Continue readingIf you’ve been running a WordPress blog for any length of time and you use – or used to use – the more tag, you’ve probably got some of your posts with the tag and some without the tag.
That’s how most of my archive pages are at this point, anyway.
I chalk it up to my own inconsistency but I got tired of finding a post, manually editing it, then moving on.
So I built a plugin to find them all at once.
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I released Where Can I Watch? launched on the App Store, and I recently shipped the first update. Version 1.1.0 includes four new features and six bug fixes most of which came directly from things that either bugged me while using the app every day or feedback from those using it.
That’s one of the nice things about building something you actually use. The feedback loop is short. Something feels off, you fix it. Something’s missing, you add it.
Here’s what changed.
Continue readingWordPress can auto-generate excerpts by truncating your post content, but the results are rarely what you want. Incomplete sentences, leftover shortcodes, broken HTML. If you’ve ever looked at an archive page or an RSS feed and wondered why the summary looks off, that’s why.
Excerpt Check is a small plugin that prompts authors to write an excerpt before publishing or scheduling a post. It’s now available on WordPress.org.
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