Aaron Holbrook

Anthropic reports a perfect zero on the agentic misalignment eval.

In my desire to create a better process for building and deploying at Zeek, I recently hit a road bump while trying to perform automatic visual regression testing immediately after deployment.

Automatically load all PHP files in the specified directory.

It's nice to pre-populate terms, content or have the ability to only OCCASIONALLY run actions.

Make your code simpler to read and simpler to debug by breaking apart your conditional statements and exiting the function whenever possible.

Did you know you can not only use Composer to manage dependencies, but actually develop a package alongside your dependencies?

Difficult to modularize code and maintain separate repos.

When working with caching strategies, it's important to step through your invalidation strategies.

Recently I ran into an issue where an installation of WordPress that had never had any issues updating stopped being able to update via the admin update button.

One of the lowest hanging fruits to learn is how to fix code regressions quickly and easily with `git bisect`

This was a fun little issue to come across

I did a quick screencast on what the WordPress Template Hierarchy is and why understanding it is one of the first steps to becoming a good WordPress developer.

You know that feeling when you're setting up a brand new server and it's not set up the way you've spent years tweaking it to be?

Because I'm a huge nerd and my google search results failed to bring up anything resembling a true listing, I thought I would throw together a little curl, grep and sed magic.

I had recently moved a customized WooCommerce site from MediaTemple GS

Thought it'd be nice to demo how to set up and get your own repository going with Git.

Some thoughts I had on my way home from WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012:

Here are my slides from my talk on WordPress and Version Control from WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012 August 18th.

Something I hear all the time and that was initially the biggest learning for me was understanding the data and the structure of objects that we have to interact with.

Something that I've come across recently as I start to build dynamic queries is changing the arguments array ever so slightly.

Today was a good day.

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on WordPress and Version Control!

So I just got back home from the first day of Chicago's WordCamp 2011 held at the lovely Depaul University in downtown Chicago.

I just had a client request that for his home page posts that were being displayed, have them link instead to a permanent page.

Anytime you update the css file any browser will think it's a new file and go and get it.

If you have to use Internet Explorer, at least make sure you're using the newest one.

In building the Centegra physician directory back in WordPress 3.0, there was no real way to use WordPress to display out a listing or archive of your custom posts.

So I recently ran across a situation on Centegra's website where I had set up our header image to show an image based on the section or area it's in.

I develop primarily on two mac computers, synced via DropBox.