Performance Posts
Meilisearch for WordPress: A Developer's Honest Take
Meilisearch as a WordPress search backend compared to ElasticSearch, Algolia, Relevanssi, and SearchWP. What works, what doesn't, and when it makes sense.
15 min readBuilding a High-Performance Directory with Headless WordPress and Hugo
How to combine WordPress as a headless CMS with Hugo for static frontend generation, featuring magic link authentication, Cloudflare image uploads, and Meilisearch.
11 min readOptimizing Since 1995
Performance optimization lessons from three decades of web development, starting with dial-up modems and static HTML.
4 min read