Creativity, curiosity, and code
Come on a journey with me as I - a an experienced developer - dive into old WordPress theme code, find myself in an enormous tangle, and question my life choices.
With the release of CommandUI there has suddenly been a lot of people looking deeply at how my own product Turbo Admin works. This post addresses some of the philosophy behind Turbo Admin, and clarifies some things about the tool that aren't necessarily obvious.
I feel I should say some things about the “business model” behind Turbo Admin, my command palette for WordPress. I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
If you're using a script that uses cookie authentication with the WordPress REST API then you may also need a nonce. Here's how to make this work!
I have a new job!
The experimental "command center" is coming to WordPress core. What do I think of it? And what does it mean for my own "command palette" product, Turbo Admin?
WOW! I made a properly "magic method" WordPress plugin that allows you to just write a function name, and have that function created for you by an AI. It just works! (Some of the time).
Turbo Admin 1.12.0 is a big release with better search, improved reliability, user and plugins search and integrations for WooCommerce and Gravity Forms. Phew!
There was some interesting chatter a while ago in my tech social bubbles about the tiny decline in WordPress’s CMS market share. This was followed by some interesting Twitter replies. But I chose to pick up on my friend Keith Devon’s response: And it caused me to reflect on how I now build small/quick sites […]
I love doing fun coding projects. I was listening to the Syntax podcast yesterday, they did a show about “Nifty Browser APIs“. That is, things you can get code to do in a browser, like locate where you are and play sounds and… do speech recognition…? “That sounds fun”, went my train of thought, “I’d […]