Hi, I’m Jack 👋
You might know me from
- Founder & dev @ Very Good Plugins
- Cofounder @ EchoDash
- Fatal Error Notify
- WP Fusion
This is my misc. blog, where I try to come to terms with the block editor.
I also blog about marketing automation @ WP Fusion
I tweet sometimes.
Latest posts
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The hitchhiker’s guide to configuring VS Code (and Cursor) for WordPress code standards using PHPCS, PHPCBF, and PHPStan
We run into a lot of technical challenges while developing WP Fusion, but I think getting our IDE to properly and consistently lint, beautify, run static analysis, and test our code has been the biggest thorn in my side for the last 5 years. I’ll get one part of it working just to have another…
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How we use AI for software development (burn this note in 72 hours)
(Originally published March 2nd, 2025. Updated March 14th, see end of post for the latest) I’ve been experimenting with new AI tools pretty heavily over the last two years (see my experiments with custom agents or AI-assisted data analytics for more info). As of this writing (end of February 2025) we’ve also heavily integrated AI…
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Let’s talk about a bad user experience (WooCommerce feature compatibility)
Today when I logged in to my local test site I saw a scary warning across every admin page. WooCommerce has detected that some of your active plugins are incompatible with currently enabled WooCommerce features. Please review the details. I clicked the link and I’m presented with a list of plugins that are incompatible with enabled…
