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Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI
How AI is reshaping modern engineering leadership, accelerating decision-making, and redefining how teams design, build, and ship software.
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ProductAIDeveloper Tools
Vibe Coded Software: What It Really Means
A grounded explanation of vibe-coded software—how modern AI-native tools enable fast, fluid, high-quality software creation without requiring deep focus or hours of manual coding.
5 min read
LeadershipFractional CTOConsulting
Fractional CTO vs. Consultant: What's the Difference?
A clear, practical breakdown of how fractional CTOs differ from consultants—and how founders can choose the right model for their stage and risk profile.
4 min read
LeadershipEngineering TeamsVelocity
Building High-Output Engineering Teams
A practical, modern framework for building engineering teams that consistently deliver high velocity, high quality, and low drama.
4 min read
AIAIEngineering
AI-Assisted Software Development Workflows
A breakdown of modern AI-augmented engineering workflows—and how teams can ship faster with less cognitive load while maintaining quality.
4 min read
LeadershipScaling TeamsLeadership
Scaling an Engineering Org Fast—Without Breaking It
A blueprint for scaling an engineering team quickly while preserving culture, velocity, decision-making quality, and product stability.
4 min read
LeadershipArchitectureLeadership
The Art of Technical Decision-Making
A practical decision-making framework for engineering leaders who need to move fast without creating long-term architectural pain.
4 min read
EngineeringTech DebtEngineering Process
Why Most Tech Debt Isn’t Real Tech Debt
A perspective shift on tech debt—why teams misuse the term and how to distinguish real strategic debt from simple code dissatisfaction.
4 min read
Org DesignTeam StructureLeadership
The Case for Small Engineering Teams
Why small engineering teams consistently outperform large ones—and how to structure them for clarity, ownership, and execution.
3 min read
CultureEngineering CultureLeadership
What Good Engineering Culture Actually Means
A practical definition of engineering culture—and the behaviors that separate healthy, high-output teams from dysfunctional ones.
4 min read
LinuxLinuxWordPress
Updated: How to find and clean up infected WordPress Files over SSH
Several years ago, I wrote what was and still is one of my most popular blogs to date. It's an article where I provided some tips and tricks on finding infected WordPress files on your server.
2 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentMagento
How to find out what user used what coupon code in Magento
Easily export a list of all orders and their associated coupon usage for Magento orders using SQL
2 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentWordPress
Use wpcli and Cron to Unpublish WordPress page
Use the wpcli and system cron to automatically unpublish a blog article or page at a specific time.
2 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentLinux
Easily monitor uptime on WHM & cPanel Server with UptimeRobot
It's all about UptimeRobot When managing multiple WHM servers with hundreds of cPanel accounts, sometimes you need a quick and easy way to monitor your sites uptime.
2 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentWordPress
WordPress Bash Scripts
I've been doing a lot of bash scripting with WordPress, especially with WP CLI. Here are some snippets I found useful.
4 min read
MagentoMagentoMySQL
How to Migrate Magento Customers and Orders
When launching an existing Magento store, one of the last things you will need to do is migrate all of the current Customers and Orders from the production site, into development, prior to actually going live.
1 min read
LinuxLinuxApache
Tuning and benchmarking Apache and MySQL
Have you ever found yourself needing to speed up apache or mysql? Here's a quick writeup on some very useful tools when you first setup Apache and MySQL.
3 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentWordPress
Remove Visual Composer Shortcodes from WordPress Excerpt
Learn how to remove Visual Composer from your WordPress post excerpts using easy to drop in php functions which can be called anywhere in your site
2 min read
PHPPHPWordPress
Create options pages in WordPress with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
I searched low and high to figure out how to create options pages in the updated version of Advanced Custom Fields (version 5 of ACF)
1 min read
Gravity FormsGravity FormsWordPress
Detect and Prevent Malware in Gravity Forms File Upload with PHP ClamAV
One of the best and most widely used form building plugins for WordPress is gravity forms. If you've ever needed to allow users to upload files to your site, but you want to make sure those files are not harmful, the following tutorial will help you with just that!
2 min read
UncategorizedUncategorizedLaravel
Laravel Force HTTPS
Using App::before You might be able to take advantage of the App::before() block in the app/filters.php file.
1 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentLinux
Optimize all images within current directory
Easily optimize all PNG and JPG images within your website for Google Page Speed improvements.
1 min read
jQueryjQueryWordPress
How to load jQuery in WordPress theme
When building out a custom theme, one of the first things most developers will need in their set of tools and resources to write efficient code will be jQuery.
1 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentLinux
Easily deploy a templated robots.txt file to all accounts within your WHM / cPanel server.
Easily deploy a templated robots.txt file to all accounts within your WHM / cPanel server.
1 min read
DevelopmentDevelopmentPHP
Use PHP to pull Users Instagram Feed
Here's a great snippet for pulling a users Instagram Feed and doing whatever you want with it.
1 min read
PHPPHPWordPress
How to find and clean up infected WordPress Files over SSH
If you've ever found yourself with a hacked WordPress site, one of the hardest things to do is scan your entire server and find all of the infected files.
3 min read
PHPPHPWordPress
Disable All Mail for WordPress
I did this simple hack on a private WordPress Multisite blog, to stop it sending me emails every time I created a new blog.
1 min read
PHPPHPWordPress
Get the latest Post ID in WordPress
Here's a neat little trick that will get you the latest post ID from WordPress.
1 min read
UncategorizedWHMcPanel
Force Non Legacy Backup to Start (WHM/cPanel)
If you have setup a Backup to run in WHM -> Backup -> Backup Configuration and would like to force it to run immediately instead of waiting for the backup schedule you can do so through SSH.
1 min read
BootstrapBlack FridayDeals
Black Friday Deals for Web Developers
Here's a compiled list for a lot of GREAT deals for Black Friday. If you're a developer, or even a designer there's definitely something here for you!
7 min read
DevelopmentEmailGmail
Prevent gmail from breaking width of email template.
Recently while coding out an e-blast I came across an issue where the layout rendered perfectly on desktop and mobile devices ( it was a responsive theme ) with any email client, except gmail on both iOS as well as Android.
1 min read
PHPPHPJavaScript
Find all files touched within the last 2 weeks
If you've ever had to deal with a hack before, you know how frustrating it can be figuring out what files were infected. This is a great method for finding all the PHP and JavaScript files that have been touched within the last couple of weeks.
1 min read
MagentoMagentoSecurity
Get a list of all installed Magento Patches
Determine which magento patches have been installed on your site.
2 min read
DevelopmentSublime TextRegex
FIND TEXT BETWEEN TAGS – SUBLIME TEXT
Often you may want to change all text between certain tags within Sublime Text, remove all types of certain tags, or change all of one HTML Tag to another. This is very often the case in XML documents or if you are removing all comments.
1 min read
DevelopmentWordPressWPML
Automatically check WPML custom field checkboxes
Today I faced a pretty daunting task, I needed to check around 2,600 rows of checkboxes across 4 different sites, each that had 3 different options.
2 min read
DevelopmentLinuxFSCK
How to skip fsck after reboot
With the recent Ghost Vulnerability out in the wild, I was tasked with patching our development servers and needed to reboot them in the middle of the night.
2 min read
DevelopmentWordPressPHP
Pull YouTube Description into WordPress Content
You might find yourself needing to dynamically update your WordPress post content with the description of a YouTube video.
2 min read
PHPWordPressPHP
Dynamically Add Parameters to the end of all wp_nav_menu()
I was working on a client who's site I was working on where I was required to capture, and hold onto an affiliate tracking variable and value throughout the entire session of a user while browsing their website.
1 min read
PHPWordPressPHP
Set WordPress image quality to high
Did you know that by default, WordPress smushes your JPG images down to 60% quality after your upload them?
1 min read
PHPWordPressPHP
How to create custom auto generated image sizes in WordPress
If you've ever needed to create custom image sizes for your WordPress installation, this function will come in very handy.
2 min read
PHPWordPressPHP
Remove the ability to edit theme in WordPress admin
When developing sites for clients, sometimes you want the ability to prevent the end user from being able to edit/access the theme source code from the admin panel "Appearance -> Editor" area.
1 min read
UncategorizedWordPressPHP
Social Media Sharing links without using a Plugin
If you ever want to include Social Media sharing links, like the ones found here on my blog, without wasting resources using some bloated plugin, you can use this code.
1 min read
PHPWordPressPHP
Require login to view WordPress site
You may want to force users to login in order to view a page within your WordPress site.
1 min read
PHPWordPressPHP
How to Grab first image from wordpress post content
Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where you have pages / posts that don't have a featured image set but you want to pull an image to use on a listings page or some other page in your WordPress theme.
1 min read
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