advanced Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, WP_Rewrite? WP Rewrite is dark voodoo magic. I screwed up, so you don't have to!
development Here are 3 ways to help you load test your websites Do you want to know where your server's breaking point is? Read this and use one of them to find out.
fail We tried AMIMOTO. You won‘t believe what happened next We trialed AMIMOTO in hopes of speeding up a client site. We had a revelation a day in to testing it. It blew our minds!
wordpress Loading templates in WordPress and WooCommerce WooCommerce has a number of functions to load different templates. I describe what they do and how they're connected in this post.
wordpress WordCamp Europe 2017 - the first hour Okay, I’m going to be that person who highlights all my grievances. There will be tons of articles about how awesome everything was, so you can read those. That said here are
laravel Custom error pages in Laravel (for the same Exception) Occasionally I can’t decide whether the question I’m asking about a piece of technology (in this case, Laravel) is so advanced as to no one understands it, or so simple that
lol Email security is shit This is going to be a tale of bullet points because it’s hilarious. So we got a PS4 Pro for my brother’s birthday. He used to have a PS3 until about
advanced Why is the list of log handlers in WooCommerce an array? This is going to be as much a help for me, as, I hope, it will be for you. So WooCommerce 2.7 3.0.0 introduced a new way to handle logs,
laravel Re: Laravel / Spark and their token authentication system A few days ago I wrote a rather lengthy article about how I modified Spark’s built in token authentication system by extending / replacing some of the classes, adding columns to the table
dns It’s 10pm, Do You Know Where Your Subdomains Are? A few days ago I got a mention on Twitter by someone asking me to follow them so they can send me a DM. I did, so I got the following message: Hi
laravel I Modified The Token Authentication in Laravel / Spark! Okay, that was yet another case of “programming by next error thrown”. It was frustrating. But also hilarious. Hilarious in the sense that I can’t believe how much code I had to
woocommerce The Curious Case of WooCommerce Shipping and the Hackiest Code I’ve Ever Written We all have those moments when sizing up a programming problem. It usually starts with this: But really, how hard can that be? Turns out, it can be pretty damn hard. A Tale
woocommerce New pet project: WooCommerce cloud logging WooCommerce 2.7 introduced a new class for handling logging. The handler itself can be replaced, which is awesome. The default handler creates log files on the server and stores the entries in
life Whatever Happened To Games in Boxes I remember getting my first actual computer game when I was fairly young. My dad returned from Hong Kong, and he bought Diablo (1) with him. It‘s just been released. Early 1997,
stories Blue crows aren't for roos Write about a crazy kangaroo who falls in love with a blue crow! That was the first response to me expressing my desire to write stories, novels. So here goes. Meet Bob. Bob
Today I learned about MySQL and timezones unfortunately, as you are probably aware, timezones— Gabor Javorszky (@javorszky) June 1, 2016 Wow, holy shit, grab a seat, I am going to lead you down the rabbit hole! There are some
meetup Scaling WooCommerce talk at WooCommerce London on 23rd May 2016 Let me start by expressing my shock: Slideshare is owned by LinkedIn Slideshare has no idea what to do with keynote files Hence this blog post. You can grab my slides by clicking
Changing focus This blog has been very much about technical stuff so far. That and minimalism and being a nomadic person. I'm extending this because I will be writing about a whole lot more stuff
wordpress Why disabling emails is harder in WordPress than you thought? Aww yeah, my first clickbaity title! Anyways, let’s get down to business. Here’s the initial setup so you know why the following things will be annoying: You have an eCommerce website.
performance How I improved a query for our plugin by several orders of magnitude This is going to be super developer heavy. 99% of the article is going to be about SQL, so don’t really expect PHP or javascript things. Background We’ve been getting support
rant Before you hit “publish”, go through this checklist There are a number of things people consistently get wrong when writing articles. It’s not even their fault, as English grammar is full of super-weird rules, and a ton of things sound
Turning on general_log in MySQL with MAMP Backstory: something was screwing up data in my database, and for the life of me I could not find what was being derpy. Possibly seeing the actual SQL queries that the database got
privacy Web design vs privacy How do these two connect anyway? What does web design have to do with privacy, of all things? So normally you’d say: nah, it’s in photoshop / sketch / css / browser / boilerplate / framework.
rant Why I stopped paying attention to Twitter? I’m still there. I reply to mentions, direct messages. I will just not run into your shared thing. I will probably not RT you, I will probably not get into a discussion
travel Germany, February 2015 Woo, so basically, because my work allows me to travel wherever, I do. In February, I went to Germany, mainly because Fabian told me he wanted to show me Tübingen before he moves