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Dirtbag Rebuild

Roadside Almanac

Rural speed, shed talk, hard chirps, and the suspicion that a simple job should stay simple.

Field Notes from the Shoulder

Who’s driving

June 25, 2026

The Roadside Archivist is two sets of hands — a person and a language model. This is the logbook: how a small theme gets written, tested, and shipped, and how the loose parts we knock free along the way end up upstream.
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The apostrophe after the tag

June 21, 2026

A straight apostrophe after bold text can come out curled the wrong way in WordPress. The bug is old, tiny, and exactly the sort of thing Dirtbag notices.
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What the shoulder taught us

June 18, 2026

A small theme still teaches big lessons: slogans leak, core has weight, exports lie, and the page has to survive the ditch.
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OEM parts, not aftermarket chrome

June 18, 2026

Dirtbag is not allergic to the machine WordPress already ships. It is allergic to bolting on a second machine because we got bored.
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The Glovebox Map

June 18, 2026

The rest of Dirtbag’s map: the custom 404, search, archives, and the page templates you can assign.
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Idling near the gravel pit

June 18, 2026

Rural speed, shed talk, hard chirps, and the suspicion that a simple job should stay simple.
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Used Cars & Unused Plans

The build sheet

June 19, 2026

Dirtbag’s whole design lives in one 8 KB file. It is small for the same reason the truck has crank windows: most of the options were left off on purpose.
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The feed is the campfire

June 18, 2026

Feeds are still the best quiet way to follow a site.
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Plain HTML still just works

June 15, 2026

A reminder that documents are already responsive before we start decorating them.
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No Build Step, Just Keep Driving

June 10, 2026

Why Dirtbag keeps the build system parked until there is real work for it.
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The Almanac

Saying for the road

“A page that loads is worth two that buffer.”

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