I’ve often needed to quickly spin up a local instance of MySQL. Docker Compose this makes it stupid easy. Rather than running a long, convoluted docker command, I can configure an image just the way I want it while maintaining the ability to turn it easily turn it on and
Read ItA while back, I wrote about building your own lazy loading functionality into WordPress. In that post, I use a regular expression to add a lazy-load class to image tags that don’t already have any class.It failed. Rather than adding it to images with no preexisting class, it was added
Read ItResource hints (preload, prefetch, prerender, etc.) have breathed some fresh life into the front-end performance game, especially as browsers are coming to support them more & more. For a traditional server-rendered application, a lot of these hints are pretty straightforward in terms of knowing when to implement them. For example,
Read ItA post on CSS Tricks in which I explore why JavaScript’s reduce() method is able to help sequentually resolve a collection of Promise objects.
Read ItIt’s easy to rattle off a bunch of ways you can improve the performance of your website: minify your CSS & JSoptimize your imagescache the crap out of ituse a CDNetc.Those are all important, but there’s also a more modern, less-discussed approach that can almost immediately earn you some serious performance
Read ItIf you’ve spent 20 seconds in WordPress development, you’ve likely worked with, cursed, and fallen in love with the WP_Query class – one of the most useful, commonly used tools in any given WordPress website or application.Aside from being responsible for the main query on any given page or post,
Read ItSqueezing every last drop of performance out of your website on any platform is an always-changing, never-ending, often addictive battle.Among the several tactics you can employ in this fight, leveraging resource hints is a modern approach that can yield some significant ROI – with preloading is a particularly impactful place
Read ItIf you’re making modifications to the functionality of your WordPress site or application, there are generally two places where people put the code to do it.A theme’s functions.php file.A plugin.Given the choice, which option should you almost always choose?A plugin.Why? The list of reasons is longer than this, but here
Read ItWhen I started in development, beginning a new project often felt like drowning and then being asked to write some functioning JavaScript. At the time, all I needed to do was perform some DOM stuff — make an element disappear on a click, add some classes, or animate a dropdown.
Read ItWhen you’re looking to incorporate any given feature into your WordPress application, there’s rarely a shortage of third-party plugins out there to make it happen. But sometimes, whether you’re trying to avoid the inevitable complexity an unfamiliar third-party plugin introduces, or for some other reason, you might feel called to
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