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If You Only Have One Backup, You Have a Problem
Backups aren’t just copies—they’re a layered strategy. By combining local speed, offsite protection, and full system snapshots, you reduce risk, shorten recovery time, and give users control. Each layer serves a purpose, and removing one creates a gap you’ll notice when it matters. Read More
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Building My Own Hosting Platform
Building my own hosting platform is shifting how I work—consolidating sites, reducing costs, and removing platform limitations. What started as infrastructure is becoming a way to better serve local clients with flexibility, control, and sustainable support. Read More
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From Shortcodes to Blocks: A Small WordPress Victory
After years of fighting awkward tag cloud plugins, I built my own. This post walks through the frustrations, the leap into WordPress plugin development, the realities of Gutenberg blocks, and how a filtered tag cloud finally helped surface patterns in my Dreamy Audio podcast. Read More
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Designing a Website That Thinks Like a Library
A behind-the-scenes look at reorganizing my website into a living archive, separating career, hobbies, and civic writing while transforming the blog into Chronicles. It explains how structure, metadata, and AI-assisted search turn years of content into an explorable, evolving personal record. Read More
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Your Life Deserves More Than a Status Update
Social media posts fade, but blogs endure. By organizing stories, backdating memories, linking reflections, and shaping design, a website becomes an intentional archive—part journal, part memoir, part history—where experiences gain context, meaning, and a home you truly control. Read More
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Raspberry Pi Digital Signage
I look into various services and projects that offer digital signage kiosks on a low budget. Most start out at $10 or more per month, and free versions are fairly limited in capability or just bad. I then start creating my own service. Read More
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Redux Optimizations
A few optimization technique that I use to improve the overall experience of a user loading a React Redux application with code splitting and giving loading status updates on slow connections. Read More
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Navigating the Maze of Icon Picker Development
The icon picker dialog control presented a significant challenge in our project. This article chronicles the development journey, from initial task breakdown to final component integration. We explored various techniques, including code splitting, portals, and efficient icon loading. While the process was complex, the resulting icon picker is a robust and efficient component that enhances… Read More
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From Flickering Icons to Smooth Scrolling: A Developer’s Journey
Building a customizable icon picker component can be a challenging task, especially when dealing with complex TypeScript types and performance optimization. This blog post details the process of developing such a component, including the challenges faced, solutions implemented, and remaining tasks. Read More
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From Confusion to Clarity: Database Query Optimization
In this blog post, I discuss optimizing database queries and improving the user interface. By using common table expressions and grouping, I resolved issues with inconsistent icon tagging. I also separated the tab rendering functionality into a dedicated React component for better maintainability. This approach has enhanced the overall user experience and will continue to… Read More