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Hi! I'm Josh.

Josh Pollock

I write a newsletter about PHP and JavaScript development with WordPress, Laravel and React

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I Launced WordPress Plugins Version 1.0.0

🌱I Pressed The Published Button Last week I sent y'all a message about my upcoming Refactoring WordPress Plugins. I uploaded A version 1.0.0 and pressed publish on everything after finishing up work today. i wanted these books to be useful but also fun. I have been working on this eBook and rebuilding the website as a side project for a while now. I've also been working a lot less. I'm also walking the dog more and the book contains photos of flowers and my dog. I hope if you choose to read...

11 months ago • 1 min read

👋 Hi Everyone. I'm back from my time off and have some new stuff ready to go. Earlier this year I wrote about my plans to pivot Plugin Machine. The two big new ideas that I talked about were mini-courses or eBooks and a membership. The first eBook I wrote was soft-launched this week. It is completed and on sale on my site. I am still tweaking things and will announce and publish it on Gumroad next week. You can purchase this book standalone or as part of a site membership. I will be...

11 months ago • 1 min read

Hi! Isn't the intro to a newsletter trying to be all personal always so awkward? Maybe that's just me. Anyway, I wrote some posts about building stuff with AI, using TypeScript and started working on an open-source app with it. 🌱Why LangChain? Last summer I started playing with HuggingFace, but was super busy with actual work to write Python for a side project, since I don't really know Python. Then I started actually building stuff with the openai-php client, including the API server for my...

about 1 year ago • 2 min read
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🌱 Stuff I've Written Recently Using React's useEffect In WordPress In the last newsletter, I mentioned a post about creating reusable React hooks. Since then I wrote a new post about how to use the useEffect hook in WordPress. This post has several examples of using that hook -- to load WordPress posts via API and to remove admin notices from wp-admin. I also explained how to use the hook to manage pagination, as an example of how the dependencies argument works. I would appreciate if you...

about 1 year ago • 1 min read

👋 You're receiving this because you signed up for Plugin Machine or the email list. I'm going to start sending more emails to this list. I apologize 🙏 if that's not what you expected. Unsubscribe When I started Plugin Machine, my goal was to help solo developers and small plugin companies build more stable plug-ins and build solutions to solve ecosystem-level problems. I thought building a plugin generator and CLI was a good place to start. Last year I launched “Josh as a Service” as a way to...

about 1 year ago • 2 min read
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