Insights & Guides

Upgrade day always starts with optimism, then you point it at a real store. The patch-or-upgrade call, the duplicate URL rewrite trap, the Zend to Laminas errors, and the process I use to get a Magento 2 upgrade through without an outage.

Page Builder, CMS blocks and widgets are three of Magento's best content tools. Here is how I actually used them, and why all three nudged me toward building my own CMS.

A senior developer's honest take on when WordPress is still the right call in 2026, when it isn't, and how to decide without being sold to by someone who only builds one thing.

A page speed score without context is not an audit, it is a sales tactic. What that red number actually means, and the questions to ask before you panic.

A senior developer's honest take on why WordPress sites get slow, the order I actually check things in, and the fixes that make a real difference versus the ones that don't.

End of week notes: Hyvä is now free and open source, what that says about the old Luma frontend, and the irony of shipping a jQuery guide the same week.

I rebuilt a client site with AI, scraping the old content and merging a Figma design into WordPress. Here is why a structured build is the opposite of vibe coding.

For years I built shop fronts by wrestling a Magento theme into shape with Gulp, Sass and a stack of build tools. It worked, but the theme was always in charge. Here is how I used to do it, and why I now build with components instead.

For years a Magento version upgrade was the job I quietly dreaded. Plan it, warn people, test it, watch things break. One went badly wrong in production. Here is how that used to feel, and why a headless stack means your site no longer needs a nerve-wracking overhaul every year to stay current.

Pushing changes live on a Magento store used to be a careful, nerve-wracking routine: maintenance mode, a string of commands, and a real chance the site fell over while you watched. Here is how I used to do it, and how shipping changes works now on a headless build.

End of week notes: Nuxt 4.4 is out, Nuxt 5 is on the horizon with Nitro 3, and a quick reflection on the Magento pieces that went up this week.

Years ago I made a video about squeezing speed out of Magento with a few admin settings. It worked, up to a point. Here is what I did then, and how a headless rebuild now scores a perfect 100 on Google PageSpeed.