I’ve been working a lot with Laravel lately and a really nice side effect of doing so has been using the very lean Laravel Valet for local development. It is super lean, super fast, and the more I use it, the less I want to be messing about with virtual machines. What’s my beef with […]

Just a nice visual reference of CSS box shadows I like to use from time to time.

In a recent project using the Laravel framework, I’ve been getting familiar with WebSockets and came up against a situation where I needed to broadcast an event only when a certain property on a model had changed. I couldn’t find this documented anywhere but, after quick dig into the \Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher class, I found the event dispatcher actually […]

Gutenberg. It’s here. The editor we’ve all been huffing and puffing over is finally gonna land in WordPress core and damage all our livelihoods forever… …or is it? Up until recently, I’d just kinda resigned myself to very basic testing with Gutenberg. I’d really just installed the plugin, created posts, and developed a feel for […]

When crafting custom-built interfaces, I find it incredibly convenient to be able to scale the entire thing down (in size) for devices below a certain width. On sites that have a lot of pixel-based CSS rules, this can be tricky as it can involve writing quite a lot of additional CSS inside a media query […]

Jobs aren’t something I change very often. This isn’t due to some fierce loyalty that I carry from role to role, nor is it because I’m easily contented with the predictability and certainty of a comfortable salary. Quite to the contrary: I need regular change in what I do; I need the opportunity that comes […]

If, like me, you find yourself working with overloaded meta tables, you might consider eradicating certain values from the database. In this post, we look at exactly how you might do that when using Advanced Custom Fields.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of manually setting up this key when I update a local environment or kick off a new install. So, after finally digging into WP CLI as a possible config path, I have this very quick tip for setting your ACF Pro license key using WP CLI: Throw […]

In this post I take a look at BEM: why I use it, how I use it, and the benefits it brings to my workflow. There’s even a few snippets you can nick!

It's been a good 10+ years since I left my last official 'in-house' place of employment. You know, the type where you rock up at a certain time, carry out a prescribed set of tasks, and wait for the painfully slow day to end so you can blow that popsicle stand and enjoy whatever is […]