I’ve spent most of this week exploring Cyrodiil in Oblivion, but in between sessions I decided to restore a few features from my older site theme that I had put off for months. Watching how WordPress ecosystem workflows operate always makes me wonder how agency devs maintain theme code in production without breaking staging parity. Editing PHP templates directly on a live site feels like a time-honored tradition.

As a developer, editing production files directly goes against every clean DevOps instinct I have. But since this is just my quiet personal blog, the stakes are delightfully low.