Design vs. Performance: Balance for Your WordPress Site
No animations, no custom fonts, barely any images — and a 100 on desktop PageSpeed. Fast and beautiful aren’t opposites, but every flourish quietly costs speed.
The archive
Everything I've written, newest first — leadership, programming, and the messy overlap between humans and tech.
No animations, no custom fonts, barely any images — and a 100 on desktop PageSpeed. Fast and beautiful aren’t opposites, but every flourish quietly costs speed.
Choosing what to play is harder than playing. How I use AI to match a game to my state of mind, instead of losing the evening to my own library.
How I stopped fighting ADHD, accepted creative cycles, and built a simple mental planner to blog consistently without burning out.
Machine-learning curves look confident until speedrunners change the game underneath them. MediEvil shows why “AI as oracle” fails.
How I became a web developer before AI and what today’s devs can still learn from that slower, hands-on way.
Trust falls and cheerful facilitators mostly build discomfort, not trust. Real team building looks less like forced fun and more like useful work done together.
Leaders should carefully plan time off to build team trust and ownership. Download the Handover Plan template.
I led a team with ADHD for years and just thought I was bad at the simple stuff. These are the systems I built to catch the loose ends before they pile up.
When WordPress is enough, and when a specialized no-code tool actually makes more sense for your site.
Telex turns natural-language prompts into working WordPress blocks, bringing vibe coding directly into the Gutenberg editor world.
A tiny dense neural network learned resin consumption well enough to replace hours of manual slicing in my 3D printing business.
I shared six years of Steam review data on Reddit. The thread skipped the methodology and argued about the AI-made infographic instead.