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Software Engineer πŸ–₯ / Blogger ⌨️ / Guitarist 🎸 | Social Media is the Internet’s Coliseum 🏟️

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Find Where to Stream Your Shows: Where Can I Watch? | Tom McFarlin β€œWhere Can I Watch?” is a React Native application primarily built for the browser to make it easy to find what services have your title available.

A few months ago, one of my kids was asking where should could watch a specific show.

Coincidentally, I was also looking for a small project to work on so I took her question, where can I watch whatever-the-show-is, and turned it into a simple app.

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30.06.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WP Bulk Plugin Updater: Automate Updates | Tom McFarlin WP Bulk Plugin Updater automates WordPress plugin updates with individual Git commits, push capabilities, and detailed logging for easy site maintenance.

WP Bulk Plugin Updater is a #PHP tool that automates #WordPress plugin updates with individual Git commits, push capabilities, and detailed logging for easy site maintenance.

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13.05.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TuneLink.io: Algorithms, APIs, Tech Stack, and AI | Tom McFarlin That’s what I did with TuneLink.io. In this article, you can read about the app and how it was built with algorithms, APIs, and AI.

I built a very simple SPA to help me quickly match a song on Spotify with the same one on Apple Musicβ€”and vice versa. It’s all front-end tech and serverless hosting. I also share how AI played a major role: tommcfarlin.com/case-study-t...

06.05.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remove Empty Shortcodes 0.6.0 | Tom McFarlin Automatically remove empty shortcodes or inactive shortcodes from your WordPress content while preserving your original database entries.

Updated a plugin that's roughly six years old. πŸ‘΄πŸ»

Remove Empty Shortcodes automatically remove empty shortcodes or inactive shortcodes from your #WordPress content while preserving your original database entries.

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24.03.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one month later and i am here to say you're welcome :)

12.03.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Code Standard Selector for Visual Studio Code | Tom McFarlin Code Standard Selector is a Visual Studio Code extension that makes it easy to quickly switch your PHP coding standard via shortcut.

πŸ”¨ Code Standard Selector for Visual Studio Code

Code Standard Selector is a Visual Studio #Code extension that makes it easy to switch your #PHP coding standard without having to edit any settings in your IDE.

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12.03.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Locally Developing Google Cloud Functions | Tom McFarlin Here are things that I use when locally developing Google Cloud Functions to ensure I can focus on the problem at hand.

Strategies for Locally Developing Google Cloud Functions

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22.01.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review and Highlights of 2024 | Tom McFarlin These are the highlights for 2024. I have things that I’m planning to do in 2025 though I’ll probably wait until this time next year to share how the year went.

Review and Highlights of 2024

> These are the highlights for 2024. I have things that I'm planning to do in 2025 though I'll probably wait until this time next year to share how the year went.

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30.12.2024 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WP Privacy, Attestation, Git Updater Lite, … | Tom McFarlin Anyway, over the last two weeks, there have a been four things I’ve found that I hope to look more into in the future. And if not, at least they’re here for posterity.

WP Privacy, Attestation, Git Updater Lite, and More

> Anyway, over the last two weeks, there have a been four things I’ve found that I hope to look more into in the future.
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> WP API Privacy, Plugin Attestation, RAVE, Git Updater Lite

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06.12.2024 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Emails From WordPress in Laravel Herd | Tom McFarlin Here’s code for an mu-plugin that makes it easy to catch outgoing emails from WordPress in Laravel Herd.

Catch Outgoing Emails From #WordPress in #Laravel Herd

> If you’re using WordPress and you’re looking for an extremely quick way to add this functionality to your local installation, add the following code to an mu-plugin ...

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05.12.2024 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Use Static Variables in Plugin Bootstrap Files | Tom McFarlin If your plugin’s bootstrap registers a callback with a hook, considering using static variables to prevent code from being called unnecessarily more than once.

Use Static Variables in Plugin Bootstrap Files

> If your plugin’s bootstrap registers a callback with a #WordPress hook, considering using static variables to prevent code from being called unnecessarily more than once.

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03.12.2024 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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where are you and I’m so sorry I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight

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15.03.2023 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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15.03.2023 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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