Web Development
Building Fast Web Apps with Astro
Why I pick Astro for content-heavy sites, how the islands architecture actually works, and what I learned building this site with it.
May 28, 2026
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Blog
Thoughts, tutorials, and lessons from years of building software.
Web Development
TypeScript Tips for Larger Codebases
The TypeScript habits that keep a project maintainable as it grows, learned from working on codebases that have been running for years.
May 12, 2026
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DevOps & Cloud
A Practical CI/CD Setup with GitHub Actions
A lean pipeline that lints, tests and deploys on every push, built from scratch with the reasoning behind each piece.
Apr 30, 2026
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DevOps & Cloud
Deploying a Static Site to Cloudflare Pages
From git push to a globally distributed website in a few minutes, including the things I tripped over in real deployments.
Apr 15, 2026
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Career & Craft
Lessons from 8 Years of Building Software
From WordPress developer to project manager to founding my own company: the non-obvious things I wish I had understood earlier.
Mar 22, 2026
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Career & Craft
Writing Code Others Can Read
Readable code is not a nice-to-have, it is the condition for a team to move fast without breaking each other.
Mar 5, 2026
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Web Development
A Quick Contact Widget with Plain HTML and CSS
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.
Jan 23, 2023
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Web Development
Removing index.php from NukeViet URLs
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.
Jan 20, 2023
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Web Development
9 Algorithms Every Developer Should Know
Searching, sorting, hashing, dynamic programming, recursion: nine foundational families of algorithms and where they actually show up in daily work.
Jan 15, 2022
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Web Development
Allowing SVG Uploads in WordPress
WordPress blocks SVG for security reasons. Here is how to enable it properly with code, and the risks you should understand before you do.
Aug 14, 2021
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Web Development
Building a Real-time Clock with JavaScript
A date and time display that updates every second, plus the two bugs almost everyone writes on their first attempt.
Aug 1, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
Reviewing and Reusing Old Commands in Linux with history
The history command and the shortcuts around it, so you never have to type a long command a second time.
Jul 28, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
Changing the Ubuntu Server Mirror When Downloads Are Slow
Regional mirrors are sometimes slow or broken and apt update hangs. How to switch back to the main mirror, for both the old sources.list format and the new deb822 one.
Jul 24, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
Installing ImunifyAV on DirectAdmin
A free malware scanner for DirectAdmin servers: detects backdoors, web shells and malicious code injected into website files.
Jul 24, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
21 Linux Commands to Remember for Managing a VPS
The baseline command set for getting around a Linux server with nothing but a shell, grouped by what you are trying to do rather than alphabetically.
Jul 24, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
Changing the Port in MAMP to Avoid a Conflict
The MAMP web server will not start because port 80 is taken. How to move it to another port, and how to find out which app is holding the port.
Jul 23, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
Enabling SSH Password Login on Google Cloud
Google Cloud only allows SSH keys by default. How to turn on password authentication when you genuinely need it, and why you should think twice first.
Jul 23, 2021
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DevOps & Cloud
Restoring a Split USB Drive with diskpart
A 16GB USB stick showing only 4GB after installing an OS on it. How to wipe the hidden partitions and merge it back into one with diskpart on Windows.
Jul 23, 2021
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Web Development
Adding Menus to the WordPress Admin
Using add_menu_page and add_submenu_page to add your own admin pages for a plugin or theme.
Jul 22, 2021
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Career & Craft
How Do You Get Quality Requirements?
Most software projects fail not because the code was bad, but because the requirements were. What I learned from years of running projects.
Jul 21, 2021
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Web Development
The wp-config.php Constants Worth Knowing
13 constants in wp-config.php I have used over and over across years of WordPress work, with notes on when to turn each one on and when not to.
Jul 21, 2021
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Web Development
Summing the Digits of a Number in PHP
A basic PHP exercise with three different solutions, and why the modulo version is the one actually worth learning.
Jul 21, 2021
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Web Development
Translating Strings in a WordPress Child Theme
The parent theme ships with language files, but what about the strings you wrote yourself in the child theme? How to load your own text domain with Poedit.
Jul 21, 2021
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Web Development
Path and URL Functions in WordPress
Telling filesystem paths and URLs apart in WordPress, and picking the right function for each case instead of building strings by hand.
Jul 21, 2021
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Web Development
A Shortcode to Insert a Menu Anywhere in WordPress
A small shortcode that lets you drop a WordPress menu into a post, a widget or a page builder without editing a template.
Jul 21, 2021
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Productivity & Management
How Successful People Manage Their Time
Time you have spent is time you cannot get back. The scheduling principles that are actually worth adopting.
Dec 16, 2020
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Productivity & Management
The Art of Self-management and How to Practise It
Self-management is controlling yourself before you can control anything else. How to build it.
Dec 16, 2020
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Productivity & Management
21 Ways to Improve Work Performance (Part 2)
The second half: the habits and tools that keep a team at a steady pace instead of burning bright and then burning out.
Dec 8, 2020
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Productivity & Management
How to Raise Your Team's Productivity
Team output is mostly a function of how you manage, not of whether your people are working hard enough.
Dec 8, 2020
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Productivity & Management
21 Ways to Improve Work Performance (Part 1)
The first twelve habits for working with more focus and finishing more of the things that actually matter each day.
Dec 7, 2020
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Productivity & Management
Methods for Optimising Your Team's Working Time
The same 8 hours a day, very different results. The problem is how the work is arranged, not how many hours go into it.
Dec 7, 2020
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Productivity & Management
Willpower: The Foundation You Stand On to Reach Success
Life is a sequence of difficulties. What separates the people who reach the end is usually willpower, not talent.
Dec 5, 2020
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Web Development
What Is Schematic Design? The Schematic Phase in a Project
The stage where an idea becomes a preliminary design, before anyone starts on the detailed work.
Dec 4, 2020
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Web Development
5 Steps to Build an Online Store with WordPress
From domain and hosting to theme, WooCommerce and payment setup: the path to a working online shop.
Nov 28, 2020
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Web Development
What Is a Wireframe and Why Every Project Should Have One
A wireframe is the skeleton drawing of an interface. Getting it right at this stage saves the whole team a lot of rework later.
Nov 28, 2020
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Productivity & Management
The Domino Effect and 3 Ways to Use It for Building Habits
One small change in the right place can pull a whole chain of other changes with it. How to pick the first domino correctly.
Sep 6, 2020
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