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After 13 years of WordPress being my default answer, AI coding tools have me asking whether it's still the right fit for new projects.
A lot of people were really happy with my last post explaining how to set up a Twitch Team greeting bot so I'm back with another guide on setting up a TrackID bot for the current…
Writing a resource to help out my fellow Team Brisk members get auto shoutouts working on their channel. Hopefully this is fairly straightforward and easy to follow. Reach out to…
If you're anything like me you're subscribed to a bunch of different email newsletters that flood your inbox each week. You find yourself managing to unsubscribe from 1-2 a month…
Using VVV and vagrant environments is immensely helpful for development but it can be a pain when you work from multiple locations like me. From my desktop at home to my laptop on…
So after a great Christmas break where I actually got to fully disconnect from my computer (9 days without sitting in front of a computer or laptop, possibly a personal best!) it…
So like a lot of web professionals I'm very interested in the topic of productivity and tools & techniques for improving it. Unfortunately, I often feel like my interest in the…
So the LetsEncrypt public beta kicked off last week and there's a buzz around the web for the vision of a near future where HTTPS is everywhere online. Since the beta launch I…
So for those either living under a rock (or live internationally), the Australian Government has passed new laws enforcing meta-data retention for Australian ISPs which,…
So in a recent project I needed to push some non-sensitive client submitted data to a WordPress page and found quickly that there was no easy way to pull in a GET variable into my…
Getting started in WordPress development looks daunting from the outside, what with all the different text editors and IDE's to the different codex's and functions and that weird…