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Title card: Stuck at 1000 blitz? It was the clock. 15% of my moves had under 30 seconds left and produced 40% of my blunders.
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Stuck at 1000 blitz? I ran 93 games through Stockfish. It was the clock.
I blamed my openings for months. Ninety-three games through Stockfish said otherwise: 15% of my moves are played with under 30 seconds…
October 2026
 Title card: zero electronics skill, one working dB meter. A Raspberry Pi Pico that tracks noise dose while mixing.
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I know nothing about electronics. I built a dB meter anyway.
A DIY Raspberry Pi Pico dB meter that tracks noise dose against the NIOSH 85 dBA limit, built by a guitarist with…
October 2026
 Title card reading My sitemap was fine, Google never looked, on a Search Console sitemap stuck on Couldn't fetch
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Search Console Never Read My Sitemap. The Sitemap Was Fine.
Seven months of Couldn't fetch, zero errors, and a sitemap that passed every test I threw at it. What was actually wrong,…
October 2026
 Title card reading The header your server threw away, on why a valid WordPress application password still returns 401
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The Authorization header your server threw away
A 401 with a credential you trust is usually the server, not the password. How to prove the header never arrived, and…
September 2026
 Title card reading Application Passwords gone from your profile, with a note that WordPress hides the panel for three reasons.
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WordPress Hid the Application Passwords Box. Three Checks Found Why.
The Application Passwords panel vanished from my profile. WordPress hides it for exactly three reasons, and one unauthenticated request tells you which…
September 2026
 Title card for an article about Site Kit returning missing_required_scopes to WordPress application password requests
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Site Kit Said I Was Missing Scopes. I Had Every Scope.
Site Kit returned a 403 for permissions I had granted twice. The scopes were fine. WordPress just had not worked out who…
September 2026
 Title card for the post 'I Let Claude Run My Website' showing the Claude and WordPress logos
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I Let Claude Run My Website. Here’s the Exact Setup.
One Saturday of setup gave an AI full control of my WordPress site: scheduled posts, page edits, file deploys. The steps, the…
August 2026

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