Sir Harry Bewes

Design choices around user attribution

In many software applications we often have to attribute actions to specific users. For example, we might attribute a comment...

I love keeping notes. Notes about work, notes about when my car was last serviced, notes as a way to...

I recently needed to switch a machine from Podman back to Docker. The reasons why don't matter too much, but...

When using XDebug to debug WordPress (or to debug specific WordPress plugins), I sometimes find my breakpoints are triggered multiple...

There have been some good articles on the Proton blog, recently, breaking down the ways that ISPs and router vendors...

A re-post of a 2020 BBC article about the environmental costs of all that data we unthinkingly store popped up in my...

🌐 geoffgraham.me/the-new-css-important I always enjoy Geoff's writing and, as a perpetual CSS noob who struggles to keep up with the...

How fast is PHP's str_starts_with() function? Let's pretend it's excruciatingly slow (it isn't) and that we believe we can replace...

I spend a lot of my time working with WooCommerce, but it can be useful to look across at other...

WooCommerce comes complete with its own database-backed session handler. Information about the shopper, the contents of their cart, any flash...

This code can be used as a standalone plugin, or mu-plugin. It is a simple (and naive) session handler for...

This code can be used as a standalone plugin, or mu-plugin file. It's an accompaniment to a set of tutorials...