Foxe // Writing
From the studio
Notes on how we build — open-source software, expert advisor design, risk, and the occasional release.
Gold Scalpel: a pre-tuned XAUUSD scalper EA for MT5
Gold Scalpel is our first expert advisor — a fully automated gold scalper for MetaTrader 5 that trades genuine XAUUSD breakouts, moves every trade to breakeven early, and ships pre-tuned with just eight settings.
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How to view active login sessions on a WordPress site
WordPress lists every account that exists, but never the ones signed in right now. Here are four ways to see active login sessions — from a raw SQL query to a one-click admin tool — with honest pros and cons for each.
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From enemies to best friends
Programming and I started out as enemies. This is the story of how it became the thing I do best — a seven-year detour through mechanical engineering that never happened, hacking, and one very good teacher.
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Partial string search in an array using PHP
There's no built-in PHP function to find every array element that contains a substring. Here's the small helper I wrote for it — and the two one-liners that replace it on modern PHP.
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My first WordPress core contribution is live
WordPress 4.7 shipped today with my name in the contributor list — a small patch for a broken importer link that now runs on millions of sites. Here's the bug, the fix, and why giving back is worth it.
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What the 404 to 301 tracking incident taught me about plugin security
In 2016 my most popular plugin shipped a usage-tracking feature that a partner turned into cloaked ads for search-engine crawlers. Here's a level-headed account of what went wrong and the lessons that still guide how I build plugins.
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Countdown redirect using JavaScript
How to send a visitor to another page after a visible countdown — a clean, accessible JavaScript version, plus a no-JavaScript fallback and the setTimeout pitfall to avoid.
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Laravel bail: stop validation on the first failure
A single validation rule kept firing every check on a field and throwing a database error along the way. The fix was a one-word rule called bail — one I ended up contributing to Laravel itself.
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