Subsetting, font-display, and the wp_preload_resources filter: a complete recipe for fonts that are private, fast, and stable, including the crossorigin gotcha.

Release directories, an atomic symlink flip, and the three post-deploy steps everyone forgets: OPcache, the object cache drop-in, and purging every page cache.

curl said the page was fresh. Browsers got a twelve-hour-old copy. Tracing one stale page through Cloudflare APO, nginx srcache, and the Redis object cache.

How I traced 230ms of Total Blocking Time to a canvas animation and a 0.129 layout shift to a font swap, and fixed both with a few lines of code.

The WordPress REST API offers incredible flexibility for headless setups, mobile apps, and custom admin interfaces. However, without proper optimization, API requests can become sluggish, especially as your site grows. In this post, I’ll share techniques to reduce response time and payload size for WordPress REST API endpoints based on real-world implementations. Understanding REST API … Continue reading Optimizing WordPress REST API for Better Performance

If you are a programmer, you may spend a good amount of time on the command line. Here is a small set of utility tools which have helped me. bat command You may have come across the cat command, which helps you in viewing the contents of a file. It certainly is very helpful, but … Continue reading Utility tools to boost your command line experience