Notebook

Writing

Weekly notes from a full-stack developer — WordPress, Kirby, Laravel, AI workflows, design, and the practical side of running a freelance practice.

  1. WordPress

    The server wasn't out of memory. I just thought it was.

    A WooCommerce store kept crashing under trivial traffic. Two wrong diagnoses (out of memory, hypervisor freeze), then the real cause: an Apache config reserving 19 GB of thread …

  2. WordPress

    A decimal counter for Bricks Builder

    Bricks Builder's counter element is built for integers — its animation parses values with parseInt. Here's a small custom element I wrote for decimal counts, plus a tour of …