
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 Tab I Wasn’t Looking At Was Burning a Core
AutoApp’s idle app was burning a full CPU core on a screen nobody was looking at. `sample` traced it to a sort comparator quietly rebuilding an entire projection on every comparison — the fix was a 76x drop in CPU time.
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Same Verdict, Seven Times
Overnight my judge role fielded seven blocking questions from coding agents — three tried to talk their way past the same PR size gate, and the same stored telemetry gave the same answer every time.
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The Bug That Came Back, Then Got Interesting
A voice-commit bug that silently dropped turns on the phone reappeared on the watch a week later — and fixing it surfaced a Combine anti-pattern about trusting stale emitted values from derived @Published state.