One project I started in April 2023 introduced four things to my stack simultaneously: a new bundler in Vite, a server-driven UI layer in Livewire, Pest as a test runner, and a CI...

Two unrelated halves. The first was May 25th: every client, at once, in April, and a spring spent on consent, data minimisation and a command that scrubs personal data out of any d...

This was the year I stopped trying to make a content management system do things that are not content management. In January I started a project on a PHP framework instead, and the...

First year this blog existed, and the year I acted on the previous year's complaint. In 2011 I was maintaining four content management systems badly. By the end of 2012 all new wor...