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Cap Display Name and Username Length in WordPress — Without Touching the Database
WordPress lets a display name run to 250 characters, and usernames can be unwieldy too. Left unchecked, they overflow author boxes, comment threads, and menus on mobile. You can cap both — cleanly, reversibly, and without editing the database — with a couple of small snippets.
Free HTTPS for Any Site: Let’s Encrypt + Certbot, Set and Forget
HTTPS used to mean paying a certificate authority every year and renewing by hand. Now it's free and automatic: Let's Encrypt issues the certificate, Certbot installs and renews it, and after a one-time setup you never think about it again.
Before You Register a Domain Name: Own It, Don’t Just Buy It
A domain is your brand's digital identity — and the single most common way people lose control of it isn't theft, it's paperwork: letting a developer or vendor register it in **their** name. Get ownership right first, and the rest of registering a domain is quick.
TablePress: Turn Dull WordPress Tables into Sortable, Mobile-Ready Ones
A wall of un-styled cells buries good data. TablePress builds clean WordPress tables you can sort, search and page through, without writing a line of code, and keeps each table in one place so an update lands everywhere it's embedded.
Turn Windows into a Dev Workstation: One PowerShell Script
Consumer Windows is tuned for a casual user — it sleeps mid-task, phones home with telemetry, and ships gaming services a developer never touches. If you run long automation, scraping pipelines, or Playwright jobs, a few settings changes make the machine stable and quiet. Here's a single PowerShell script that applies them — and the safety steps to run it sanely.