Posts on building modern web applications that stay fast and maintainable.
One a href tel tag inside an iframe, three completely different causes, and a test environment that led me to misdiagnose all three.
Why I pick Astro for content-heavy sites, how the islands architecture actually works, and what I learned building this site with it.
The TypeScript habits that keep a project maintainable as it grows, learned from working on codebases that have been running for years.
Only wp-admin/plugins.php died, and debug.log stayed empty. Dropping markers to bisect my way down to the function causing a segfault, and fixing it without touching core or the plugins.
A floating contact bar with chat, call and directions links: docked to the left on desktop, turning into a bottom bar on mobile, with no JavaScript.
Rewrite is enabled in the admin panel but the URLs still contain index.php? The problem is one line in a config file the admin interface never touches.
Searching, sorting, hashing, dynamic programming, recursion: nine foundational families of algorithms and where they actually show up in daily work.
WordPress blocks SVG for security reasons. Here is how to enable it properly with code, and the risks you should understand before you do.
A date and time display that updates every second, plus the two bugs almost everyone writes on their first attempt.