Front-end frameworks like React are overkill for most web apps. I've long felt this in my bones, and over the past few years, I've watched excitedly as a new breed of tools has reinvented how we can...

If you work with enough startups and other small companies, one of them will, at some point, present you with an offer of equity in exchange for work. It's a sign that you've truly arrived as a...

Nowadays, I use Laravel Valet as the development environment for all my PHP projects, from Laravel to WordPress to Statamic. The project does an excellent job catering to the middle 80% of use cases...

Don't ever disparage another developer. As a rule, this is true whether freelancing or working full time, and it makes you look worse than it does the developer you're targeting. Imagine that you've...

Recently, in my work at Clockwise, I ran into a scenario where I needed to figure out the mimetype of an uploaded file. That file had to be run through ImageMagick, and the parameters we passed to...

This is a Tailwind appreciation post. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Tailwind is a utility-first CSS framework, originally created by Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger, Jonathan Reinink, and...

Task scheduling has become a foundational building block of even the simplest modern web apps. Whether you’re deleting old records, sending weekly updates, or processing payments, chances are...