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Image Compression Is Hard, Letās GoĀ Shopping Against my own internal monologue advice, I ran a Core Web Vitals test on my blog. It came back ehhh, okay.... https://derrick.blog/2026/06/30/image-compression-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/
Blarg Industries Announces GopherPress Enterprise: Mission-Critical Gopher Protocol Infrastructure for the Modern Content-Forward Organization
Here at Blarg Industries, our R&D 3 team has just released GopherPress, the best-in-class WordPress plugin for serving your digital content over the Gopher protocol (RFC 1436). This is not a drill. After 18 months of ideation, a comprehensive blue-sky sprint, and three separate paradigm pivots, we are proud to say the future of enterprise content delivery is here. The future is 1991. Whyā¦
So I've been trying to play Stars! again.
If you donāt know it, itās a 4X space strategy game from 1995, Windows 3.x era, and itās one of those games always end up thinking about, from my youth as a wee lad. The problem is it only runs in a 16/32 bit Windows environment, and getting that running on Apple Silicon in 2026 involves enough emulator layers make it a pain. So I started decompiling it. The plan: figure out enough of theā¦
REST API for Password-Protected Posts
I had a private WordPress site that needed the REST API locked down. Nothing critical, just work stuff. I didnāt want data leaking. Blocking it is simple: hook into rest_authentication_errors, return a 401 for anyone who isnāt logged in. Done. Except not done. The site had password-protected posts with custom interactive blocks that fire REST API requests dynamically. When you enter the postā¦
Two Weeks Building TwinK[l]ey
I was laying in bed watching YouTube with the display brightness turned way down. The keyboard backlight was screaming into my eyes. Appleās M4 MacBook Pro removed the dedicated brightness keys, so adjusting it means digging through System Settings. At midnight. While trying to watch a video. I decided to fix it. The result is TwinK[l]ey. Now, I know absolutely zero Swift. Zero macOSā¦
The Subscriber Purge: Automatically Cleaning Up Spam Accounts
*This is not a test. This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the Annual Subscriber Purge. All inactive accounts registered for more than 30 days will be deleted. May code have mercy on your database.* I run a WordPress blog, and like many WordPress sites, I get a lot of spam subscriber accounts. You know the type: they register with suspicious usernames or domains,ā¦
Fun with Telex
Automattic recently released a really cool tool called Telex that is an AI assisted block builder. Iāve been playing around with it, and itās been really cool! I decided to use it to build a āTeaHouse Heroā block. What is that you didnāt ask? Well, some of us really old folks might remember a Google product called āiGoogleā (š) that was a customized start page for your browser. Yeah, it was aā¦
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I recently learned that thereās a built-in ālightboxā function for the block editor, where you can click on images to expand them. Go ahead, try it on the picture below: Isnāt that wild?! Who knew! This should be the default: Through the magic of the Internet, now it can be! https://github.com/emrikol/default-image-expand I took the lazy way and vibe coded this with Claude Code, so now allā¦
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Extract Transcript from Quill Meetings Files
I use Quill Meetings for local on-device transcriptions of calls. Itās pretty great! The app definitely has some quirks and is missing some features that Iād prefer, like the ability just export a text file of a call transcript. Sure, I can ācopyā it and paste it into a file, but itās missing things like timestamps: So I built a quick script to extract transcripts from .qm files for me. .qmā¦
So many paths to follow and no wizard gps...
How I Saved My MacBook Pro From Bad RAM
Oh boy, how did we end up here? When the first macOS Sequoia public beta came out, I went ahead and installed it on my 2019 Intel MacBook Pro. Iāve never had a problem with public betas, and usually try them out. Well, this time something went wrong. I donāt remember the details, but the install crashed, froze, or borked somehow near the end. I restarted and it seemed to finish. ā¦ but weā¦
Automatic Admin Login for WordPress, A Really Bad Idea
Sometimes when youāre working with a local site, especially with existing data, and need to log in as a user and donāt want to mess with resetting the password (or thereās some weird SSO/MFA thatās getting in the way) you just want it to work. Well, here you go. This snippet will automatically log you in to WordPress using the admin login. I donāt recommend using this anywhere near production orā¦
The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.
it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows
It's also fun to remember the context, here. A deranged starship captain (just out of shot, pointing a phaser at Kirk) has just demanded that Kirk call the Enterprise and order his crew to do something illegal, or he'll shoot Kirk. Kirk makes the call, knowing his crew will refuse. And they do.
The other captain's practically got his phaser up Kirk's nose at this point, trying to push Kirk into putting more pressure on his crew, and Kirk just coolly says to his people, "...Nah, nothing serious going on down here, talk to you later..." and "hangs up." And then does this wide-eyed, innocent, butter-wouldn't-melt thing: "You heard them, it's not my fault...!" Which maybe will still get him shot... but maybe not. Gambling, as always...
A good script is half the battle in serial drama. "Omega Glory" wasn't all that great a script. But these offhand moments of business, dropped by an actor working deeply enough in his character, can make stuff work regardless. :)
when I was in college in the 1990s I took a document design course and we had to go talk to an archivist at the university library
the library had a single page from a gutenberg bible (the bible had been damaged by fire and the remaining undamaged pieces cut apart and sold) and a CD sitting next to each other
we looked at the bible page, marveling at this 500+ year old page with its neatly set type, carefully kept under a sheet of glass to protect it
and then she held up the CD and pointed out that in 500 years, if a CD could even last that long, it was unlikely we'd possess the technology to read it
and we all got very quiet and look at the book page for a long time
and is evidenced by the fact I'm telling you about this almost 30 years later, I have never forgotten that blank-looking shiny piece of plastic sitting next to a beautiful, ancient piece of paper that someone pressed words into with a machine and left for me to read, hundreds of years before I was born.
