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Most posts on this website are quite technical in nature. This post will be a little different, no code snippets this time. This will be my first year in review (or recap) post. A lot has happened in 2020 and I would like to look back...

For years I have been developing custom WordPress themes, mostly with Bootstrap (3 and later 4). But around a year ago, I started using TailwindCSS instead. I first got familiar with Tailwind...

Today I needed to make a post archive page for a WordPress-theme that contained several different grids in one loop. For example, the first two posts needed to be in a 50/50-grid. The following three ones in a 33/33/33-grid and the rest...

Sometimes you want to create a custom widget for your WordPress theme or plugin. And sometimes, you might want to include the tiny WYSIWYG editor like the one that is within the Text widget WordPress offers out of the box. Now,...

This article will go through the steps to get Memcached installed on a Centos (7 or 8) server with DirectAdmin. I needed to install Memcached to make use of object caching in WordPress on a VPS. The VPS was hosting one website...

Have you ever run into a situation where you want to be able to dynamically store data along with your Laravel Model, without having to add an (excessive) amount of columns to your database table? I sure have. I think there a...

About two weeks ago, I published an open-source Laravel package on Github called Laravel Simple Media. The package enables you to upload media files, optionally...

Yesterday I was trying to tweak the invoice design for Addrow, a SaaS application I made with Laravel. I have basically two templates for the invoice, one for web display...

Yesterday, I posted a Tweet that included a screenshot of a code snippet. Before I could take the screenshot I needed to toggle some settings in my code editor (VSCode), and after I thought: why not make a simple tool to make that...