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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. Why…

If you don’t know it, it’s a 4X space strategy game from 1995, Windows 3.x era, and it’s 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 the…

I had a private WordPress site that needed the REST API locked down. Nothing critical, just work stuff. I didn’t want data leaking. Blocking it is simple: hook into rest_authentication_errors, return a 401 for anyone who isn’t 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 post…

I was laying in bed watching YouTube with the display brightness turned way down. The keyboard backlight was screaming into my eyes. Apple’s 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 macOS…

*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,…

Automattic recently released a really cool tool called Telex that is an AI assisted block builder. I’ve been playing around with it, and it’s been really cool! I decided to use it to build a “TeaHouse Hero” block. What is that you didn’t ask? Well, some of us really old folks might remember a Google product called “iGoogle” (🙄) that was a customized start page for your browser. Yeah, it was a…

I recently learned that there’s a built-in “lightbox” function for the block editor, where you can click on images to expand them. Go ahead, try it on the picture below: Isn’t 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 all…

I use Quill Meetings for local on-device transcriptions of calls. It’s pretty great! The app definitely has some quirks and is missing some features that I’d prefer, like the ability just export a text file of a call transcript. Sure, I can “copy” it and paste it into a file, but it’s missing things like timestamps: So I built a quick script to extract transcripts from .qm files for me. .qm…

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. I’ve never had a problem with public betas, and usually try them out. Well, this time something went wrong. I don’t remember the details, but the install crashed, froze, or borked somehow near the end. I restarted and it seemed to finish. … but we…

Sometimes when you’re working with a local site, especially with existing data, and need to log in as a user and don’t want to mess with resetting the password (or there’s some weird SSO/MFA that’s 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 don’t recommend using this anywhere near production or…