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  • Hello Dolly. Revisited.

    The plugin Hello Dolly comes bundled with every WordPress installation and adds a line of the famous to the top of the WordPress dashboard. And it’s not always appreciated. This is the most useless plugin ever created Why??? For The Love of GOD, Why is this STILL on the Repo? …are just 3 of the…

  • WordCamp Europe 2023

    WCEU is just a few weeks away, this time coming from the beautiful city of Athens. And, assuming it doesn’t put you off, I’ll be one of the speakers. My talk has the title of “10 Things WordPress Plugin Developers Should Avoid”. I promise it’s less click-baity than the title suggests. Tickets are still available.

  • Review: Dove Pro Age Hand Cream

    After loosing a lot of weight a few years back and, thanks to my advancing years too, my hands became more visibility aged – loose skin and age spots appearing. This is on top of the fact that I already suffer from dry skin. As a result, for a number of years, I’ve been using…

  • Vienna: Wien the team gets together

    Just a few weeks since my last meetup, I’m on the move again. This time it’s my team’s meetup and we’re heading to Vienna in Austria. We’ve split the team between a hotel and a nearby Airbnb, the latter of which will be where we all meet up during the day. This not only gives…

  • CSS compression script: now open source

    Back in 2008 I released an online tool (which was a simple page on this site) for CSS compression. You pasted in your CSS, pressed a button and it compressed it. However, I never really did much else with it – either improving what it did and what functions it provided, but also promoting it.…