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January 5, 2022 featured article

25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store

Having worked on numerous Wordpress & WooCommerce sites over the last years, I have tried almost everything to speed up and improve page rendering times. Here I will share my key findings with you, put together into 25 tutorials. I hope they help you to achieve a fast, performant and easily maintainable WooCommerce store. This is the Tutorial overview and introduction.

February 13, 2023

PicoCSS Sticky Footer

See the Codepen in action.

Filed under Frontend
& Playground

January 15, 2023

References in PHP

Derick Rethans article gives an in-depth look at the inner workings of references in PHP. There are quite some things in this article, that will help you write less memory-hungry code. It’s an absolute must-read article if you have ever wondered why there’s an & in front of variables or in function parameters.

Filed under Aside
& PHP

December 15, 2022

PicoCSS Infinite content loop

I wanted to be able to display a couple of customer quotes on my homepage. This is the HTML and CSS I used to achieve that. HTML CSS

Filed under Playground

December 15, 2022

PicoCSS Content Tabs

I will be sharing a couple of PicoCSS usage examples and other experiments in a new Playground category. For some, I might be able to use my mint CodePen account, for other experiments that might not work. Without further ado, here are my first two usage examples of PicoCSS

Filed under Playground

December 12, 2022

Design Refresh 2022

This blog design has just gotten an upgrade. The first design iteration after getting back to blogging in January 2020. Visually I wanted to improve and extend the minimalistic design I’ve been using. So I stick with the same color palette, but added new elements and I tried to make things more appealing. At the […]

Filed under Aside

November 2, 2022

How to fix common problems with Laravel Valet

Laravel's Valet is amazing. It makes setting up a new PHP Projects on macOS as easy as creating a folder. Valet has many advantages over for example Docker, as it has less overhead. No need to download images, no need to build them, no additional disk space is blocked by all the VM images, containers so on and so forth. Valet also takes advantage of your full CPU power as it doesn't have to share resources with a parent slash host OS. Of course, Docker has many advantages, too. In this article, however, we won't look at the things that make each of them stand out – instead I want to list all of those smaller and bigger problems one can run into when using Valet in your day to day web development. And of course how to fix them.

Filed under Nginx,
PHP
& Web Development

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