Technical insights, coding adventures, and development notes.
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Self-Hosted Web Fonts Without the Layout Shift Subsetting, font-display, and the wp_preload_resources filter: a complete recipe for fonts that are private, fast, and stable, including the crossorigin…
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Zero-Downtime WordPress Deploys with GitHub Actions Release directories, an atomic symlink flip, and the three post-deploy steps everyone forgets: OPcache, the object cache drop-in, and purging…
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The Case of the Stale Homepage: Debugging Three Layers of WordPress Caching curl said the page was fresh. Browsers got a twelve-hour-old copy. Tracing one stale page through Cloudflare APO, nginx srcache,…
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From 84 to 97: Fixing Mobile Lighthouse Scores on WordPress How I traced 230ms of Total Blocking Time to a canvas animation and a 0.129 layout shift to a font…
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Building a Canvas Text Block with Pretext I recently came across Pretext, a JavaScript library by Cheng Lou that handles text measurement and layout without touching the…
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Building a WordPress Theme with Google Stitch AI I recently redesigned my blog using Google Stitch — an AI-powered UI design tool from Google Labs — combined with…
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Running Your Own AI Assistant on a Raspberry Pi: A Complete Setup Guide A personal AI that actually does things, for free or cheap, on hardware you own. No coding required. I’ve always…
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Optimizing WordPress REST API for Better Performance The WordPress REST API offers incredible flexibility for headless setups, mobile apps, and custom admin interfaces. However, without proper optimization,…
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Utility tools to boost your command line experience If you are a programmer, you may spend a good amount of time on the command line. Here is a…
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The Headless WordPress Experience with Frontity Ever since I came to know about the possibility of a headless setup for WordPress, I have always been tempted…