From Idea to WordPress.org: Building Completionist with Clean Code
I have been developing for the web for about 20 years, and WordPress has always been part of my toolkit. Themes, plugins, client sites, you...
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Thoughts on web development, PHP, WordPress, and modern JavaScript frameworks.
OTA Webhook Integration: A Weekend in Someone Else’s Problem Space
I've been doing integrations for most of my professional life. In my current work in the automotive industry, connecting new data sources is almost a...
From Bash Scripts to GitHub Actions: Automating My Personal Infrastructure
I realized at some point that I was still using bash scripts to push code to production. A simple push-code.sh file that I would adjust project by project. I...
From EC2 to Lambda: Why I Went Serverless with Laravel
This was an experience I wanted to have because I've been aware of Laravel Vapor and the possibility of running Laravel on AWS serverless infrastructure. As...
When My Sites Went Down at 3 AM (And What I Built After)
A few nights ago, I woke up to find that my sites had been unreachable for two hours during the night. By the time I checked, everything was...
Moving My Sites to AWS: Why I Did It the Hard Way
For many years I have been using a VPS. Before that, I used shared hosting providers where you get an account but no real access to configure...