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Strategies for Locally Developing Google Cloud Functions - Tom McFarlin

For the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of work with Google Cloud Functions (along with a set of their other tools such as Cloud Storage, PubSub, and Cloud Jobs, etc.). The ability to build systems on top… Continue Reading →

Review and Highlights of 2024 - Tom McFarlin

I usually don’t write a full “year in review” type of post, but I do sometimes highlight various milestones, goals, and/or notable things that have happened in the last year. And this year, I’ve both the desire and time to… Continue Reading →

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2024 - Tom McFarlin

Over the years, I’ve usually written some type of end of the year post centered around Christmas that also talks about what’s happening and what happened: 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 And the closest I came to doing something like… Continue Reading →

WP Privacy, Attestation, Git Updater Lite, and More - Tom McFarlin

For years, I’ve kept track of various resources that I’ve found useful. Having them here makes it easy to refer to them in the future should the need arise (don’t you refer back to your old posts? /s). It also… Continue Reading →

Catch Outgoing Emails From WordPress in Laravel Herd - Tom McFarlin

Earlier this year, I swapped my local development environment over to Herd (along with a couple of other changes such as DBngin which is worth covering in another post). There’s a lot to like about it one of which is… Continue Reading →

Thanksgiving 2024 - Tom McFarlin

At this point, it’s more of a tradition to post on Thanksgiving Day than anything else. I’ve been doing it for 12 years now. Happy Thanksgiving But the general sentiment is still the same as it was 10 years ago:… Continue Reading →

Use Static Variables in Plugin Bootstrap Files - Tom McFarlin

As nice as event-driven programming can be within the context of WordPress’ hook system, one of the challenges is preventing code from executing every single time the hook is called. For example, say you’re writing a function that fires during… Continue Reading →

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