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This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood for the handle, and attaches it with screws; I hope he’s using washers. The design is…

Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7

Mar 20, 2025

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Meta was barfing, so I turned to Claude, to help with something I’ve never been good at: Gutenberg Blocks. I asked it to make a block that writes the shortcode. I guess it did exactly that, but that’s not really what I wanted! The code it produced almost worked. It was intended for a flat…

WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6

Mar 20, 2025

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I gave Meta AI a break, because I had to do most of the refactoring and debugging by hand. I lost track of time, but I’m guessing it was 4 or 5 hours work, because I had a typo that screwed me up for at least an hour.

Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5

Mar 19, 2025

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This wasn’t a good session. Aside: Cleaning up Meta.ai’s code I griped about the code formatting, so I asked it to help me out: write a composer config script that will: delete backups that end in ~; run PHP code beautifier with the WordPress format on all the PHP files Refactoring Continues I continued with…

Configuring Regolith i3xrocks

Mar 17, 2025

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I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get my Regolith + i3xrocks working right. So here’s what I’m doing. First, create .config/regolith3/i3xrocks/conf.d Then, copy…

Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4

Mar 16, 2025

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I decided to drop into Meta AI to see how it did with this code. Unfortunately, it took a couple hours, and the code wasn’t as good as Gemini.

Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3

Mar 11, 2025

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So, I decided to beautify the code, and the tool told me there were a lot of errors and problems, so I spent today trying to fix those. Start time: 2:37, end time: 4:50. I still had problems, but… Some of the errors were not errors. Some of the errors, when fixed, caused minor bugs.…

Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2

Mar 11, 2025

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This continues the work in the post Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections. We complete the admin by linking the ID to the post, fixing the Delete feature, adding a CAPTCHA and a settings screen.

Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1

Mar 10, 2025

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