Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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Siren Affiliates

  • It is INTOXICATING to watch my little setup find the highest priority function that needs unit tests, submit an issue on GitHub, then watch Copilot submit a PR with complete tests for me to review. This is supposed to free me up, but I’m just marveling at the whole thing.

  • I’ve finally managed to wire up a nice n8n -> copilot flow that automatically picks the highest priority method in Siren’s codebase to improve, and submit a pull request to improve it. Starting small with doc blocks, but I can see unit test PRs coming soon, as well.

  • Told my wife “I’m nick miller sad this week” and now we’re watching new girl.

  • Well, Siren is getting some halfway decent traffic. Not HUGE amounts, but enough that I’m starting to actually see quasi-useful data. I’ve always kinda sucked at analytics, and setting all of that up. Hoping Conversion Bridge can help.

  • I feel like I’m way behind the ball on this, but I have discovered just how incredibly useful a gyro controller is in playing FPS games. It’s so much easier to fine-tune aim by moving the entire controller. Feels almost like using a mouse.

  • Got a new controller for the media center this week! 8BitDo is really good quality, reasonably priced, and universal as all hell. Loving it!

  • I got a kitchen aid for Christmas 😍😍😍

  • Better Async Support in WordPress With PHPNomad + Action Scheduler

    What’s Changed A sore spot in WordPress is background tasks. Yes, it’s been solved several times, but to this day, there’s still a fair bit of scaffolding that goes just into making it possible to do. That’s why I’m so excited that I’ve published a new update to PHPNomad’s WordPress integration to finally leverage the…

  • I am genuinely blown away by how well this media center is running games. It doesn’t have a dedicated video card, just a Ryzen 5, and yet it’s running most games on high settings, and the ones it can’t still work great on low/medium settings. Better than a console.

  • I decided to install Bazzite on my media center this weekend, and WOW. It’s so, so good. This media center can really do it all now. (Except play YouTube because Google does not have a native app that I can run on th darned thing 😒)