From Real Projects to Practical Insights

Lessons learned from building and scaling production systems—shared to help developers and teams move faster and build better.

Insights

Notes, ideas, and things I’m learning and building.

Testing Pantheon Autopilot: A Safer Path to Automated WordPress Updates

Automating WordPress Core and plugin updates has long been one of those ideas that sounds great in theory—but makes seasoned WordPress developers nervous in practice.

How Docker Streamlines Our CF Development

We adopted Docker to make local environments consistent, fast to spin up, and easy to share across the team without manual setup drift or “works on my machine” surprises across our stack.

Perfectly Balanced Text: How to Use `text-wrap: balance;` in CSS

In modern UX design, it’s often the little details that make a website feel polished and professional. One of those details? Perfectly balanced text in headings and paragraphs.

Customizing the WordPress Search Form with Bootstrap 5

WordPress includes a built-in get_search_form() function to render a search field, but the default version is plain and unstyled.

HTML Character Entity Codes Cheat Sheet

HTML character entity codes let you use special characters in your HTML that either can’t be typed directly or would otherwise interfere with HTML syntax.

How to Build an AI Prompt Using CFML and/or cfScript (Part 1)

If you’re a ColdFusion developer curious about integrating AI into your projects, this quick-start guide is for you.