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Where Can I Watch? 1.6.0: Currently Watching

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… Continue Reading →

Using Code Review Personas in Claude Code

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… Continue Reading →

How I Set Up My 2026 MacBook Pro

TL;DR: How I set up my 2026 MacBook Pro, along with the software I installed and the method I used for each (either Mac App Store via the mas CLI, Homebrew, or direct download). It’s been a few years since… Continue Reading →

Network-Wide Ad Blocking with Pi-hole, Unbound, and Tailscale: A Step-by-Step Guide

For years, I’ve had a Raspberry Pi sitting in my office serving both Homebridge and Plex. Though I’d wanted to set up Pi-Hole for sometime, I’d not taken the time do so until recently. For those unfamiliar, Pi-Hole effectively lets… Continue Reading →

Remove Empty Shortcodes: And Do It in All the Places

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… Continue Reading →

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

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… Continue Reading →

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

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…. Continue Reading →

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