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  • Getting to grips with Docker and Laravel Sail (on Apple Silicon/M1)

    2021-03-02

    So I wanted to have a play with Laravel Breeze and Jetstream. In doing so I noticed that the instructions for Breeze (and for Laravel in general) suggest a Docker-based Laravel Sail install by default. I had not looked into Docker despite a lot of hype around it recently in my tech world. So I […]

  • Sustainable Web Design: Book thoughts

    2021-02-25

    Some brief and random thoughts on the excellent book "Sustainable Web Development"

  • Simple free domain redirection with Netlify

    2021-02-05

    How to host domain redirects for free with Netlify.

  • Building WP-UI

    2021-01-01

    A very scattergun, brain dump of thoughts about the WP-UI app that I'm developoing in Electron.

  • Tech note: WordPress multisite in sub-domains redirects without path when you have a domain alias

    2020-12-04

    Well this is a super-niche issue that I came across today. I don't have an answer - maybe you do?

  • Where are my MySQL database files on MacOS?

    2020-11-19

    My 7-year-old MacBook got bricked. So I needed to recover some MySQL files from a Time Machine backup and load them onto a new computer. And so I've been digging around finding out where all my homebrew and MySQL files are. While running mulitple instances of everything! Here's a fairly unstructured brain-dump of all that I've learned (or re-learned) along the way.

  • Custom WooCommerce Checkout Fields

    2020-09-23

    Some things I learned on my first in-depth WooCommerce build. Including how to do JavaScript logic on elements in the cart/price totals on the checkout page.

  • Announcing Beyond WP

    2020-08-26

    WordPress developers: Today I’m opening sign ups to a newsletter I’ll be starting soon called Beyond WP. It will be a resource that brings developer tools and ideas from outside the WordPress ecosystem to WordPress developers.

  • Video: Investigating WPForms email issues with clever developer tools: wp-cli, HELO, and Querious

    2020-04-16

    I recently had an issue with form notification emails not sending from a local development site. I used some advanced developer tools to diagnose this. This is a tour of those tools and how I used them to solve this problem.

  • Video: JavaScript, reduceRight() and function/operator symmetry

    2020-04-14

    A friend of mine asked for use cases for the reduceRight JavaScript Array method the other week. I made a little video explaining it.

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