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life · 19 Jan 2023
What was my 2022
New job, 19 live streams, a WordCamp Europe, and a baby in a cycling carrier. Here's how 2022 actually went.
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cicd · 31 Dec 2022
Creating custom actions in Buddy
Buddy finally got sharable custom actions — and they're exactly what was missing. Here's how to build your own from scratch.
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newsletter · 22 Dec 2022
Is it worth migrating from Revue to Substack?
Revue is shutting down and the clock is ticking. After a week of testing alternatives, here's why I landed on Substack — and what it actually costs.
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astro · 12 Dec 2022
Playing around with Sanity.io
Sanity.io kept coming up in conversations, so I rebuilt this blog with it. GROQ queries, Studio configuration, and all — here's what I found.
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wordpress · 27 Nov 2022
The world outside of WordPress
After years inside the WordPress bubble, I finally looked outside — and it's bigger, weirder, and more interesting than I expected.
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headless · 1 Nov 2022
Is going headless worth the fuss
I was a headless skeptic for years. Here's what finally changed my mind — and what the hype still gets wrong.
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statamic · 23 Oct 2022
Implementing Astro live previews in headless Statamic
Live previews in a headless setup always feel like the last unsolved puzzle. Here's how SSR in Astro makes them work with Statamic.
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cicd · 28 Sept 2022
No Deploy Friday action
Deploying on Friday is a bad idea — so why not make it literally impossible? Here's the one-liner that enforces that rule at the pipeline level.
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wordpress · 6 Sept 2022
The great WP-Optimize Debacle
A tweet accused WP-Optimize of gaming PageSpeed scores. After testing it myself, the truth is more complicated — and everyone involved made mistakes.
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development · 17 Aug 2022
Converting Statamic to use Vite
Build times dropped from 9 seconds to 4 after switching from Laravel Mix to Vite in Statamic. Here's exactly how I did it.
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