My Monitors Kept Disconnecting, and the Culprit Was Embarrassing

So, I spent a good chunk of a Tuesday morning doing genuinely impressive forensic analysis of my Mac Studio's kernel logs—poring over USB enumeration failures, Thunderbolt controller topology, and IOKit device trees—only to discover that the cause of my monitors randomly going black was a Lightning cable sitting idle on my desk, plugged into nothing. Let me walk through this, partly because it might save…

http://georgestephanis.com/2026/05/12/my-monitors-kept-disconnecting-and-the-culprit-was-embarrassing/

Building Better Workflows with Claude and WordPress Studio

One of the most beneficial aspects of Claude and agentic development is being able to give it a persistent memory of how to interact with the codebase and what the codebase is. This will let you work faster and more efficiently -- after all, wouldn't you work faster if you were given an introduction to a codebase instead of just shown the code and told to 'figure it out'?

http://georgestephanis.com/2026/03/23/building-better-workflows-with-claude-and-wordpress-studio/

Automate Your WordPress Theme Development

Late last year I started working on an ongoing project that involved turning out a number of FSE (Full Site Editing)-based themes rather quickly from provided Figma designs...

https://georgestephanis.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/automate-your-wordpress-theme-development/

In which I experiment with "Vibe" coding to write a macOS Desktop App to scratch an itch that I've been trying to get built for almost a decade.

https://georgestephanis.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/how-i-built-wordup-a-guide-to-creating-a-macos-app/

WP REST API vs GraphQL Performance

A client had recently pointed out to me a post detailing performance differences between the REST API that ships in WordPress Core, and WPGraphQL -- In it, it asserts that the difference between two similar queries running the REST API and WPGraphQL yields vastly different performance impacts: Below are screenshots of the same WordPress site asking for 100 posts from the WP REST API and 100 posts from WPGraphQL with the Chrome network…

https://georgestephanis.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/wp-rest-api-vs-graphql-performance/

Susan Twist

There's always a "Twist" at the End

... The twist is Susan Foreman? (The First Doctor's Granddaughter?)