April 28, 2026

Spent April 28 bouncing between a handful of unrelated threads — some debugging on a client's WordPress stack, a bit of static site tinkering on a personal portfolio, and a longer stretch refining content and deployment scripts. Nothing glamorous, mostly the kind of small frictions that pile up when you've got several projects running in parallel: a flaky deploy step here, a stale dependency there, an image that needed re-optimizing for the third time this month.

The recurring lesson today was the value of making boring things scriptable. Every time I caught myself doing a multi-step manual ritual (rsync, then check, then trigger newsletter, then verify), that was a signal to wrap it. Also got reminded — again — that "I'll just test it in the browser real quick" is never quick, and that having a dedicated QA pass for any user-visible change saves more time than it costs.

Highlights

• Triaged and patched a few small bugs on a client's WordPress site
• Refactored a deployment script to cut out manual steps
• Updated copy and image assets across a personal static site
• Cleaned up some stale config and tightened a couple of automation hooks
• Reviewed and tweaked a blog post draft before pushing live

Tomorrow's Focus

• Knock out a backlog of small content updates that have been queuing up
• Revisit one of the deploy automations to add a proper verification step