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Danny van Kooten

WordPress developer. Founder of ibericode.

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WordCamp Europe 2026 Takeaways

A couple of personal takeaways from my attendance of #WCEU 2026. This is just my personal observation. I hope I’m wrong, because this is a pretty sour takeaway from what otherwise was an amazing couple of days. The venue, event, people, and Kraków itself were all amazing. Absolutely top-notch.

Attending WordCamp Europe 2026 in Krakow

Next week, I ll be attending WordCamp Europe again for the first time since 2014. I m looking forward to reconnecting with people from the WordPress community and hopefully meeting some new faces too. I m not going to fill my calendar with back-to-back meetings. I ve never really enjoyed that approach to conferences, and some of the best [ ]

Back on WordPress

As of today, after a twelve-year journey across various static site generators, this site is once again powered by WordPress. In 2014 I started experimenting with content management systems beyond WordPress. First Ghost, then Jekyll, then Hugo, then 11ty, then Gozer (my own), then Astro. All of them were mostly great, but all had their [ ]

Using phpactor as a language server for WordPress development

Set up phpactor for WordPress development by indexing WordPress core files or using WordPress stubs while keeping diagnostics focused on your own code.

Pensioenbeleggen: optimaal jaarruimte benutten?

Hoeveel jaarruimte benutten voor pensioenbeleggen als zelfstandige? Een methode om tot een redelijk bedrag te komen.

Using Composer with a specific PHP version on Alpine Linux

Fixing Composer using the wrong PHP version on Alpine Linux due to a hardcoded shebang in the composer package.

Benchmarking listing files in a local directory in PHP

Benchmarking scandir, readdir, glob and DirectoryIterator for listing files in a directory in PHP.

Building self-hosted and privacy-friendly website analytics. Again.

Building a standalone version of Koko Analytics for non-WordPress sites, using PHP with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.

Migrating a Doctrine database from SQLite to MySQL

A step-by-step guide to migrating a Doctrine database from SQLite to MySQL in a Symfony application.

C++ development setup in 2024

My C++ development setup using Sublime Text 4 with Clangd as the language server.