Work
Work I wrote, edited or collaborated on for somebody else’s site, plus the research and essays here that belong with it.
50 pieces / 5 publications
I build the kind of thing I write about. It makes the writing faster and the technical reviews shorter.
Naming, identity, and voice. Same job as writing, different medium.
Launches, positioning, and the calendar that holds it together.
Breaks down what offshore WordPress development actually costs versus onshore rates, using industry-wide figures, so enterprise buyers can judge the trade-off for themselves.
A detailed guide for companies running dozens of websites in multiple languages that want to bring them onto one platform. Written and edited in my Content Strategist role.
A look at the WordPress 6.6 release that goes past the feature list to say why the changes actually matter for real sites.
A trend report built on real market numbers instead of crystal-ball hand-waving. Written for the people deciding where next year’s tech budget goes.
Written for site owners who keep hearing they need a CDN. It explains how one speeds up delivery and shrugs off traffic spikes.
Explains a genuinely sneaky attack in plain terms, then walks through the defenses that stop it.
Makes one of the hardest database ideas approachable. It explains what sharding is and when your app actually needs it.
Describes how in-memory databases cut read and write latency by keeping the dataset in RAM, what that costs, and where they fit, with Redis, Memgraph, and Hazelcast as examples.
Written for anyone weighing a career as an application developer. It covers the daily work and the skills and degree employers ask for, plus salary figures.
Sorts MongoDB’s operators into 9 types, including logical, array, geospatial, and bitwise, with example queries. It ends with 6 practices for data modeling and memory use.
Explains HTTP 402 Payment Required, a status code reserved for future use that some developers already return when a payment fails.
Explains HTTP 402 Payment Required, a status code reserved for future use that some developers already return when a payment fails. It also lists what to check when one appears.
Covers what PHP 8.2 adds, such as readonly classes, DNF types, and constants in traits, and what it deprecates, dynamic properties and utf8_encode() among them.
The data behind Kinsta’s migration claim: what actually changed when 3,200+ sites moved hosts, measured over three months. Built from the raw testing, not a slogan.
Explains how a CDN serves a WordPress site’s files from servers near visitors, then compares Pingdom load times with and without Kinsta’s CDN in…
Explains how a CDN serves a WordPress site’s files from servers near visitors, then compares Pingdom load times with and without Kinsta’s CDN in 4 cities. It also covers setup and image indexing.
Shows how email providers score a sending domain to decide between inbox and spam. It names 6 lookup services, such as Google Postmaster Tools…
Shows how email providers score a sending domain to decide between inbox and spam. It names 6 lookup services, such as Google Postmaster Tools, and the habits that repair a bad reputation.
Lists the PHP and database versions, RAM, disk space, and web server a WordPress site needs, with recommended settings beyond the minimums.
Lists the PHP and database versions, RAM, disk space, and web server a WordPress site needs, with recommended settings beyond the minimums. It also shows how to check whether a host meets them.
Compares Google’s Brotli compression with GZIP. It then checks whether a site already serves Brotli and enables it 3 ways, with a WordPress…
Compares Google’s Brotli compression with GZIP. It then checks whether a site already serves Brotli and enables it 3 ways, with a WordPress plugin, on Nginx or Apache, or through the host.
Explains PostgreSQL, the free and open source object-relational database, including its architecture, the industries that use it, its…
Explains PostgreSQL, the free and open source object-relational database, including its architecture, the industries that use it, its operational challenges, and how it compares with MySQL and MariaDB.
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