Tag: Web Development
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What I Built in February
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Continue Reading: What I Built in FebruaryFebruary was about working sustainably. I made solid progress on the ArtisanPack UI Visual Editor, started building pre-built dashboards, created a surprise Rust desktop app called Hangar, and started planning what’s next for my personal dashboard.
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My 2026 Web Dev Stack: The Essential Tools for a Highly Efficient Workflow
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Continue Reading: My 2026 Web Dev Stack: The Essential Tools for a Highly Efficient WorkflowDevelopers love talking tools. Here’s a pragmatic look at my complete 2026 web development setup, from M-series hardware and my preferred IDE to an essential Laravel workflow, custom-built packages, and the role of AI in my day-to-day development.
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Reigniting My Development Passion: The Story Behind ArtisanPack UI’s Creation
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Continue Reading: Reigniting My Development Passion: The Story Behind ArtisanPack UI’s CreationEvery developer faces burnout, and I was no exception while building Digital Shopfront CMS. I realized the traditional path wasn’t sustainable for creating new tools for small businesses. Discover how solving my own scaling problem led to the creation of ArtisanPack UI, a suite of reusable Laravel components designed to reignite development passion and empower…
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A Look Back at 2023 and Looking Forward to 2024
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Continue Reading: A Look Back at 2023 and Looking Forward to 2024It’s a brand new year. So of course that means it’s time to take a look back at what happened in the previous year and look forward to what’s to come in the new year. So let’s dive into how my 2023 went and what I’m hoping to do in 2024.
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How to preload your CSS and why you should
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Continue Reading: How to preload your CSS and why you shouldYou’re trying speed up the page load time of your website and you’ve tried everything. But it’s still not quick enough. Have you tried preloading your CSS and JavaScript resources?
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The value of open source
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Continue Reading: The value of open sourceWhat’s the value in using and contributing to an open source project? Well beyond the price, it’s really quite remarkable.
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An update into life headed into 2019
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Continue Reading: An update into life headed into 2019It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, so here’s a brief update about the last month or so of 2018 and what’s coming in 2019.
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Object-oriented programming in WordPress plugins
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Continue Reading: Object-oriented programming in WordPress pluginsCreating a WordPress plugin is pretty simple. It’s just another functions.php file, right? But what if you tried creating a plugin with object-oriented programming.
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Why you should always focus on the basics when starting web development
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Continue Reading: Why you should always focus on the basics when starting web developmentThere are so many web development frameworks that it can be difficult to figure out where you should start. But the basics are always the right place to begin learning.
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How Gutenberg is from a developer’s perspective
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Continue Reading: How Gutenberg is from a developer’s perspectiveWe’re still in this sort of waiting period for Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. If you’re a WordPress developer, however, you need to be learning how to develop with it now.