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cms · 30 Oct 2023
Building a website? This is how I do it
After building dozens of client sites, my tech stack choices might surprise you. Spoiler: the right answer always starts with 'it depends.'
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cms · 16 Aug 2023
Different flavors of content management
Headless vs monolith, SaaS vs self-hosted, Git-based vs database — there are more CMS flavors than you might think. Here's how to tell them apart.
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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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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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cicd · 6 Jun 2022
Deploying WordPress with confidence using CI/CD
Pushing code straight to production on WordPress felt fine — until it wasn't. Here's how adding a staging server and some tests changed everything.
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cicd · 22 Apr 2022
Implement CI/CD step-by-step in your project
The hardest part of CI/CD isn't the pipeline — it's changing the team's habits. Here's how to make that first step less painful.
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