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Architecture, authorisation, front-end state, and the WordPress work all of it came out of. Mostly things I had to work out twice, written down so it is only twice.
- 012026-11-08 · 5 min
Cleaning a hacked WordPress site, and the 27 minutes I got wrong
A client's review site was showing visitors a fake Cloudflare check that told them to paste a command into Windows. Getting the malware out took two days. Then the attacker was back 27 minutes after the site went online, and that part was on me.
wordpresssecuritycase-study - 022026-09-27 · 6 min
Code review is the skill now: programming after AI
AI now plans with me and writes most of the implementation. The part it hasn't taken is reading that code and deciding whether it ships. Accepting it unread is vibe coding. Reviewing it well, and quickly, is where the programming skill lives now.
aicode-reviewvibe-codingengineeringwordpress - 032026-09-05 · 3 min
The Future of Programming: Learn to Think, Not Just Code
AI is getting good enough at implementation that writing every line by hand is ending. That is not a reason to stop learning programming — it is a reason to change what you are learning it for.
aicareerengineering - 042026-09-03 · 6 min
What renaming a plugin actually touches
A wordpress.org review rejected the name once. The rename itself was the easy part — the database table, the hooks API, and the REST namespace all had to move too, for a plugin that already had real installs.
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