Jose Fresco Blog

How jf-hosting-command wraps the WP Engine and PressWP REST APIs behind a single command surface — jf-host sites list pulls installs from both platforms into one table, jf-host cache flush detects which provider hosts the site and fires the correct API ca…

How Family Dashboard v3.34 enlarges the weather summary text and removes the AI-generated commentary line — and what six months of daily use on a wall-mounted iPad teaches about readability, service worker reliability, CalDAV calendar discovery, and build…

How COLEwebdev.org's July–August 2026 update adds AI SEO audits that ingest live Google Analytics and Search Console data before generating recommendations, and a platform-agnostic AI speed audit covering WordPress, e-commerce, and custom-built sites.

How Divi SpeedWorks removes four unused Gutenberg stylesheets, two redundant WordPress actions, and a builder-only script from Divi 4 frontend pages — and fixes Cumulative Layout Shift caused by Divi's Theme Builder injecting inline styles into the page b…

How the pi-backups update adds prune.sh — a script that enforces daily, weekly, and monthly retention tiers on remote backup archives using a grandfather-father-son rotation scheme.

How the pi-backups July 2026 update adds restore-drill.sh — a script that downloads the most recent encrypted archive from the backup destination, decrypts it with the stored GPG passphrase, extracts it to a temporary directory, and runs four verification…

How COLEwebdev.org deploys a no-build React 18 app to GitHub Pages with a single git push and zero CI configuration.

How Family Dashboard uses a three-step PROPFIND chain to discover shared and invited Google Calendar collections — the CalDAV protocol dance that most implementations skip, and why skipping it means missing half the family's events.

How the pi-backups June 2026 update adds Telegram notifications for every backup run — success confirmations with job name, compressed size, and elapsed time; failure alerts with the exact shell exit code; and a weekly digest that summarizes all jobs acro…

How Family Dashboard v3.33 adds a live wind direction compass — a large SVG arrow with cardinal label and wind speed — to the wall display.

How COLEwebdev.org uses React 18 via CDN and Babel Standalone to run a full single-page app in the browser with no npm, no webpack, and no build pipeline.

How SafeShare bypasses Reddit's server-side API blocks by fetching post data in the browser, persisting snapshots to Vercel KV Redis with a 90-day TTL, and serving a clean reader view — no Reddit credentials, no login walls, no app install prompts.

How Family Dashboard v3.32 adds a service worker cache layer so the wall display keeps showing stale-but-useful data through Pi reboots, network blips, and server restarts.

A Node.js CLI that recursively crawls Google's "People Also Ask" box — mining dozens of real user questions from a single seed keyword and exporting them as JSON and CSV.

A technical deep-dive into the JF Notify plugin — PHP action hooks, Gravity Forms entry data, Telegram Bot API message formatting, per-form enable/disable toggles, MarkdownV2 escaping, multipart field handling, and the credential filter pattern that keeps…

A step-by-step guide to deploying the Watch List PWA on Vercel — covering TMDB API credentials, the non-obvious three-step session ID flow, build-time credential injection via build.js, configuring MY_SERVICES and EXCLUDED_PROVIDERS streaming filters, and…

How the pi-backups April 2026 update adds AES-256 GPG encryption of backup archives and an automated restore verification script — protecting Pi application data, configs, and credentials even from your own hosting provider.