I’ve just finished a digital deep-clean of 74 .htaccess files, and it turns out my server was a graveyard for dead PHP versions and redundant code. Here’s why your server config is probably a mess, how to fix it, and why "set and forget" is a lie we tell ourselves to sleep at night.

A little story about how, as a freelancer, I Nearly Binned a Client: After spending two years trying to drag them out of a 1990s marketing loop. Fed up doing the same marketing campaigns month after month I decided to take action, so I ignored the brief, published what I wanted. Then waited to be fired.

I've always avoided comments on this blog because most systems are bloated and spam-ridden. But now I've built my own lightweight, secure system from scratch with the help of Google's AI. This post explains how it works, and invites you, the readers, to be the guinea pigs and test out the brand new "Version 1.0".

As a web developer with nearly 25 years of experience, I'm often asked why websites are so expensive. The honest, no-bullshit answer that no one pitching for your work will ever tell you is this: the clients are to blame. Here's why.