A minor form change once broke logins across a client’s membership site. Unit tests passed anyway. Acceptance testing drives a real browser through the whole user flow, so this kind of break fails a test before customers ever see it.
A standalone Symfony CLI tool gets brittle once you wire every command’s dependencies by hand. This shows how to configure the dependency injection container so it autowires services and registers new console commands for you.
A client’s WooCommerce store kept crashing every Black Friday on a pricey managed server. Serverless hosting runs each request on its own short-lived instance, so a traffic surge scales instead of hitting a single box’s limits.
A client came to us with a plugin that was, to put it mildly, a total mess. It started simple enough: one little settings page….
I got a call from a new client in a panic. Their site was down. White screen of death. Turns out, their previous developer had…
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
I had a client come to me, completely at their wit’s end. Their site had been hacked for the third time in a month. They’d…
A simple VIP discount request stalled on a 1000-line, undocumented function nobody understood. The fix was not more code, it was documenting the intent behind it. A short comment block up front saves hours later.
A designer lost a gig sending a PDF and Behance links. The fix is a real WordPress portfolio site built on a custom post type, so your work stays clean, portable, and independent of the theme.
A client was told Bedrock was impossible on Pantheon. It is not. The fix is a CI build step that runs Composer and pushes the built code to Pantheon, so the main repo stays clean.