Back in January 2022, I wrote a post called Working Remotely. At the time, I had been working from home for about 3 years. My conclusion was simple: the productivity, work-life balance, and cost savings were revolutionary. The downsides—feeling “always at work” and having less social interaction—were minor. My final verdict was that the positives…
So, here’s a story from the trenches. You know how I love geeking out over AI solutions (check out my “Coding with AI” post for my full AI journey)? Well, I get caught in an AI rabbit hole. The Scene:I migrated a client’s website to a new VPC server, and suddenly, our Office 365 SMTP…
A while back, a client came to me with a frustrating problem: thousands of spammy URLs—about gambling, lottery, and other random topics—were showing up in their Google Search Console (GSC). These weren’t real pages, yet Google had indexed them. Now, I’m no SEO expert, but I do have a decent understanding of how Google indexing…
So, you’re new to web development. You’re learning Laravel, React, Vue, or whatever’s trending on Twitter this week. You’re building to-do apps, arguing about tabs vs. spaces, and rolling your eyes at the idea of WordPress. “Ugh, WordPress isn’t real coding,” you say. “It’s just dragging blocks around, right?” I get it. I used to think the same…
2022: My “Whatever” Phase with GitHub Copilot I tried GitHub Copilot back when it was new. It felt… fine. Autocompleted a line here, guessed a loop there. Helpful, but not life-changing. “Cool, but can it fix my WordPress plugin errors?” Nope.“Will it stop me from Googling PHP syntax?” Nope. So I shelved it. 2023: ChatGPT Entered the Chat (Literally) When…