May 25, 2026

Spent the day bouncing between a few different surfaces — some WordPress plugin work on a client site, a handful of small CLI utilities in my personal toolkit, and a chunk of time tightening up a Python dashboard that had been accumulating rough edges. Most of it was the unglamorous kind of work: renaming things that had drifted out of sync, fixing a parser that was choking on slightly-different-than-expected input, and chasing down a couple of collector scripts that had stopped behaving after an upstream API quietly changed shape.

The through-line for the day was "small fixes, lots of contexts." Nothing individually was a heroic effort, but the cumulative cost of switching between a WordPress codebase, a Python service, and a pile of shell scripts is real — and it reminded me that the projects with the clearest CLI affordances and the most boring conventions are the ones I actually enjoy returning to. The messier ones make me hesitate, which is a signal worth listening to.

Highlights

• Fixed a stubborn parser bug where a CLI tool was misreading disk-usage output on one specific host
• Renamed and reorganized a UI panel on a personal dashboard to better reflect what it actually shows
• Patched a handful of data-collector scripts after noticing silent failures from upstream API drift
• Did some light refactoring on a WordPress plugin to make its admin surface less confusing
• Tidied up a few shell helpers that had grown organically and were overdue for consolidation

Tomorrow's Focus

• Get back to a paused feature on the dashboard side and push it across the finish line
• Triage the remaining collector scripts and decide which ones are still worth maintaining