Andrew Rhyand
andrewrhyand.com
Andrew Rhyand
@andrewrhyand.com
#WordPress is full of magic strings in the meta tables, so I started generating them with a little PHP enum.

My screenshot only shows one case, but you can imagine this scaling out.

Turns out… this is actually super handy.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Amazing work @nunomaduro.com on @pestphp.bsky.social!

It's so flexible that I was able to incorporate browser testing in #WordPress.
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Improved #WordPress caching options in Waffle.
July 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
#Laravel has one of the cleanest and most scalable ways to run background jobs in PHP.

Adding Illuminate queue and worker support to Waffle made importing ~2M rows into #WordPress a breeze.
July 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
ASCII art, Fight Club, SSE, and HTMX.

I revisited my little demo and found out I could do this -> 'sse-swap="frame,color"'.

hx-sse.andrewrhyand.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I live in Albuquerque, NM, and host a local events app.

It works, it's fine. However, my eyes still prefer to scan the old-school classifieds style. So I'm riffing on this refactor:
July 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Added waffle_session function to the Waffle #WordPress.
July 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Added waffle_router function to the Waffle #WordPress.
July 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hey, #WordPress devs! Do you know a native WP way to register hooks conditionally?

I hacked on an idea in case there isn't a "WP way". The rough idea:
February 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I love working with movie data for demos.

However, I find using the raw JSON data from a TheMovieDB response difficult to wrangle.

Working on a package to convert the responses to DTOs. It's called Rosebud.
January 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Refactored "Big Comics" to use Vector embeddings for search using @meilisearch.com.

The change allows the user to control the "Semantic Ratio" applied to search terms.

Site: bigheadcomics.andrewrhyand.com
Repo: github.com/boxybird/big...
January 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My failed, but incredibly fun to create, NFT project...

squarepegbutthole.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I had a fun day building a View Transition API demo. #PHP
January 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM