I love to create digital products.

I'm Jeffrey, a freelance web developer based in the Netherlands. I love building digital products.

As a freelance PHP developer, I get to work with great tools like Laravel and WordPress to do just that.

PHP / LARAVEL / TAILWIND CSS
PHP / MYSQL / ALPINE.JS / LIVEWIRE

Specializations

Tools of the trade

Laravel

Through the years, I have worked with several PHP frameworks. I find that Laravel is by far the best to work with. It allows me to create great web apps and API's. I love the surrounding community and how it's widely used around the world.
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class Article extends Block
{
    public $data = [
        'content' => 'This is just an example block.'
    ];

    public $blockEditComponent = 'article';

    public function render()
    {
        return <<<'blade'
            <div>{{ $content }}</div>
        blade;
    }
}

WordPress

WordPress has been around for a long time and is the most used CMS in the world. It's a great tool to build a solid website.

WordPress has a huge community providing with tons of plugins and themes, but sometimes you need customization. That's where I come in.

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function tailpress_asset( $path ) {
	if ( wp_get_environment_type() === 'production' ) {
		return get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/' . $path;
	}

	return add_query_arg( 'time', time(),  get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/' . $path );
}

Latest blogs

Introducing Paver
Last weekend, I launched Paver. A drag-and-drop block editor built specifically for PHP developers. The Why Behind Paver I created Paver with one primary goal: to serve as a custom block editor...
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Laravel-like job dispatching for WordPress
Aside from WordPress development, I work a lot with Laravel. And one of the things I love about Laravel, is the Jobs API. In short: a dedicated class for your job that you can dispatch or schedule. In WordPress, we have the event...
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Using Flare with WordPress for error tracking
Flare, for me at least, is mostly known as a error tracker for Laravel applications. However, the service is framework agnostic and can be used for other frameworks, including WordPress, as well. So how do you add it to your WordPress...
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What I've worked on

A few awesome projects where I get to do what I love.

DropBlockEditor
Made for open source with Laravel, Livewire, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS
DropBlockEditor is an open source package block editor made with and for Laravel Livewire.
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Lewiens.nl
Made for Lewiens with WordPress, Tailwind CSS
Portfolio and blog website for Lewiens. Photographer, Filmmaker and Storyteller.
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Easy Liveblogs
Made for open source with WordPress
Easy Liveblogs is an open-source plugin for WordPress which aims to allow people to easily add liveblogs to their site.
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