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Hi! I’m a full-stack developer. Some stuff I’m interested in: Web Performance and User Experience.

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WordPress 6.4 actually doesn’t disable attachment pages

Attachment pages are one of the most confusing and misunderstood features in WordPress. Many people don't get what is the purpose of a feature where the content management system creates a page for each of the images uploaded to the site. The only purpose of this attachment page is that is displays the image in the page template.

Fixing the Host header when running a reverse proxy on Google Cloud Run

I'm running this WordPress blog on Google Cloud Run. It's running on Apache since the official WordPress Docker image doesn't support Nginx. There is a WordPress Docker image that uses PHP FPM, but you will need to connect to it from another container using FastCGI.

How to create a page under a custom post type URL in WordPress

WordPress custom post types are a great way to model your content. Let's say your company creates all kinds of products, like widgets, gadgets and gizmos. You can create a new new custom post type in WordPress called Products to store these posts.

DigitalOcean App Platform: it’s a promising service with a one really big problem

DigitalOcean is the latest company to join the serverless race. Can the new platform live up to the lofty promises and replace the existing Droplet VPS offering?

What fighter jet is featured in the game “Raptor: Call of the Shadows”?

Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a fun classic DOS game. But what about the titular plane in the game? Is it modeled after the F-22 Raptor? Let's find out!

Fixing the wrong keyboard layout on Varmilo VA88Mac Nordic

The Varmilo VA88Mac is a pretty nice keyboard, but there's a big problem: the keyboard layout is wrong. Here's how you can fix it using Karabiner Elements.

What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL

In a blog post last year, I took a look at lossy image formats and how they stack up. This time, I thought it might be interesting to do a comparison of lossless image formats.

Installing WordPress on DigitalOcean App Platform Part II

Since I moved my blog to the DigitalOcean app platform, here's a couple of tips and tricks I learned along the way.

Installing WordPress on the DigitalOcean App Platform

When DigitalOcean came out with its managed App Platform, I got interested if I can run WordPress on it. It took me one afternoon to get WordPress up and running, here's how you can do it.

Disable Drop Cap in WordPress 5.5 (or later)

The WordPress Gutenberg editor launched with a curious feature cribbed from the Medium editor: an option to add a drop cap to a paragraph