A Senior Developer’s Unapologetic Reckoning with the Tools We Love to Hate “Legacy Code” or “Stable Foundation?” When I left my agency job in 2024 as a team lead—building WordPress sites with Vue sprinkles and Laravel apps—to join a profitable SaaS startup running Laravel and jQuery, I felt a pang of dread. jQuery? In this…
As a seasoned blogger and web developer, I’m always eager to explore new hosting solutions for my WordPress sites. Having previously tried Fly.io and been impressed by its simplicity and performance, I decided to venture into the world of Google Cloud and AWS, curious to see how they would stack up. Little did I know,…
Have you ever clicked on a blog and been overwhelmed by a dizzying array of colors, images, and design elements? Did it distract from your ability to actually read and engage with the content? I faced this exact dilemma with my own blog. The design had gotten cluttered and busy, to the point that it…