If you publish online, you should periodically search for yourself, not out of ego but out of discipline. The internet is an echo system, and if you do not measure where your ideas travel, you are operating blind. You want to know who is linking to you, who is quoting you, who is criticising you, […]
Read more →If you are doing 20 builds before finding the real issue, the problem isnot intelligence. It is workflow design. Claude defaults to probabilistic reasoning. It produces the most likelyexplanation. That is useful for writing. It is disastrous for debugging. You must force it into instrumentation mode. This article shows exactly what to configure, where to […]
Read more →Andrew Baker | 01 Mar 2026 | andrewbaker.ninja You want one script that does everything. No digging around in settings. No manually editing JSON. No clicking Developer, Edit Config. Just…
Read more →If you use Claude Desktop to edit code, write patches, or build plugin files, you have probably hit the same wall I did: Claude runs in a sandboxed Linux container. It cannot read or write files on your Mac. Every session resets. There is no shared folder. You end up copy pasting sed commands or […]
Read more →GitHub is not just a code hosting platform. It is your public engineering ledger. It shows how you think, how you structure problems, how you document tradeoffs, and how you ship. If you build software and it never lands on GitHub, as far as the wider technical world is concerned, it does not exist. This […]
Read more →Most WordPress plugin developers eventually hit the same invisible wall: you ship an update, everything looks correct in the zip, the version number changes, the code is cleaner, and yet users report that the old JavaScript is still running. You check the file. It is updated. They clear cache. Still broken. Here is the uncomfortable […]
Read more →Health warning: This article may not make you feel happy, it may not suit you to read this article. I am not even sure I necessarily believe everything I am…
Read more →If you run a WordPress site behind Cloudflare, your page view numbers are lying to you. Jetpack Stats, WP Statistics, Post Views Counter and nearly every other WordPress analytics plugin…
Read more →If you run a technical blog on WordPress, you know the pain. You paste a markdown article with fenced code blocks, Gutenberg creates bland core/code blocks with no syntax highlighting,…
Read more →Andrew Baker · February 2026 · andrewbaker.ninja 1 The Problem with TTFB Time to First Byte has been the go to diagnostic for server responsiveness since the early days of…
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