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Releases, tutorials and the story behind each project: how the plugins and apps are designed, built and shipped.
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Every project here starts hidden
A directory of your own work fills up with half-built things. The fix wasn’t discipline, it was making “not ready” the default.
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Letting you run an app on my site without handing it the keys
Some projects here are a single HTML file you can try in the browser. Running a page’s own scripts on your own domain is…
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The chores app that had to survive my own family
A rota on the fridge fails for one reason: nobody looks at the fridge. So the app had to do the one thing paper…
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Support that lives inside the app, not in an inbox
Every app I build eventually needs a way for people to say “this is broken”. Email is where those messages go to die, so…
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Backing up a 3.4 GB site on hosting that fights you
The usual advice is to make one big ZIP and download it. On a shared cPanel account with 30-second limits and no spare disk,…
