Mike Lopez
Mike Lopez
WordPress, PHP, Product Development, and Remote Engineering leadership
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Fix iOS passkeys on Linux with the Bluetooth setting that usually blocks iPhone-based passkey login and WebAuthn device detection.
Set up WordPress in Lando for plugin development with a repeatable local workflow, WP-CLI support, and a faster path from empty folder to working dev environment.
I’ll be honest: some days I open my terminal with the noble intention of being productive… and five minutes later I’m somehow watching a video titled “Top 10 Times a Goat Won an Argument.” On Linux. Inside Brave. While Slack sits in the background wondering where its life went wrong. If you’re a Linux user,
Use a practical AI workflow for WordPress plugin development that improves planning, code generation, code review, and overall code quality.
What I learned from vibe coding an internal PHP application with AI, including planning, review, speed gains, and where human judgment still mattered.
A practical look at vibe coding, how AI changes software development, and what developers and hiring managers should pay attention to next.
Learn a practical, low-risk approach to PHP code refactoring for legacy codebases, with safe steps, proven best practices, and tools that make old PHP easier to change.
If you told 25-year-old me that one day I’d be managing a team of PHP developers, reviewing performance metrics, and negotiating deadlines with stakeholders, I probably would’ve laughed and gone back to refactoring some poorly written legacy class. I didn’t start my career with “leadership” in mind—my focus was all about clean code, fast queries,
See how to optimize large PHP codebases safely by profiling hot paths, isolating risky changes, fixing repeated queries, and improving performance incrementally.