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When a transient is the wrong answer
Caching a value is easy. Knowing when it stops being true is not.
Rehearsing a migration on a Wednesday
Move it twice, once for practice, and sleep better on launch night.
Protected: Notes for members on our review process
Writing release notes people read
Short, plain and honest about what might break.
A contact form with no plugin
REST, a honeypot and a rate limit, in about a hundred lines.
Checking capabilities twice
The bug was never in the form. It was in who could reach it.
Staging sites that tell the truth
If staging does not match production, it is just a nice place to feel confident.
Coding standards as a kindness
A linter is a colleague who never gets tired of the same conversation.