Fixing Stiff UI: Natural SVG Animations the Easy Way
A few months ago, a client came to me with a high-end WooCommerce build. They wanted “personality.” Specifically, they wanted the UI to feel alive—nothing…
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Why Your Green Lighthouse Score Is Lying To You
I recently worked with a shop owner who was genuinely confused. His desktop PageSpeed score was a perfect 98. He was bragging about it to…
How to Manage High-Resolution Image Assets Without Killing Performance
A client came to me last week with a classic high-traffic nightmare. They’d launched a “monthly inspiration” gallery—essentially a collection of high-resolution image assets from…
How to Handle High-Resolution Image Libraries Without Crashing Your WordPress Site
I once took over a project for a boutique design agency that had a massive “inspiration” gallery. We are talking about 14 years of high-resolution…
The One-Shot Nature of JavaScript Iterators Explained
I recently got a call from a client whose custom WooCommerce product sync was acting… well, weird. They were pulling in about 15,000 SKUs from…
Why XPath Still Beats Modern Selectors for Complex Scrapers
I had a client last year—a massive enterprise equipment supplier—who was stuck in a nightmare. They needed to sync inventory from a legacy vendor portal…
How To Master Gamepad Debugging With One CSS Hack
I was working on a custom kiosk interface for a client last month—something that needed to run on a browser but controlled entirely by an…
WordPress REST API Search: Speed Up Editorial Workflows by 75%
I had a client a while back with a massive content library—something like 15,000 articles spanning over a decade. Their editorial team was brilliant, but…
Create Clean CSS Avatars With This Simple Trick
I recently had a client come to me with a “Meet the Team” page that was a total disaster on mobile. They wanted that classic…
Cleaning Up the Mess with Modern CSS Architecture
A client came to me recently with a WooCommerce store that felt like it was stuck in 2012. It looked okay on the surface, but…