Serverless WordPress
WordPress’s editor without a WordPress server. The editor runs in your browser with WordPress Playground, and Cloudflare stores the content and rebuilds the static site.
Projects
Turnstile protected static forms
Spam-protected website forms without a form service. A Cloudflare Worker checks Cloudflare Turnstile and emails each submission, and Vue composables handle the form.
TV Shows Tracker
A web app that tracks the TV shows I watch, emails me when a show is renewed or cancelled, and adds new episodes to my calendar. I first built it in 2020, then rebuilt it with Nuxt on Cloudflare.
GitHub Contributions
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Blog
How AI helped me add my Mitsubishi Delica D:5 to UK insurance databases
Earlier this year I bought a 2007 Mitsubishi Delica D:5. The D:5 has been sold in Japan since 2007 but was never officially sold in the UK. Mine is a Japanese import, which means that while it is perfectly legal and registered with the DVLA, getting insurance for it can be a little more complicated […]
Scaling ECS on PHP-FPM workers instead of CPU and memory
Our ECS services scaled on CPU and memory, which meant traffic spikes took the platform down before a new container ever started. Scaling on busy PHP-FPM workers fixed the outages and let us run 3 containers instead of 8.
How to download a Google Sheet on a cron
Working with Google Cloud can be confusing for beginners and sometimes all you need is to manipulate a Google Sheet. I have a couple of use cases for downloading a sheet and uploading a sheet. I haven’t quite figured out the upload part yet, but I have got downloading to work. I’ve decided to write […]
How to add Custom Variables to LiveChat
I had a task to add a Google Analytics ID to the user profile in LiveChat. We wanted to be able to match up the person we were chatting to with the analytics data in Google. This looked really simple according to their docs. You can just use the following function: What their docs failed […]
This one Nuxt trick prevents broken deploys
Have you ever experienced broken deploys while using Nuxt? It can be frustrating when your build encounters errors, but still proceeds to deploy all the files, resulting in broken pages on your website. Fortunately, I discovered a handy Nuxt trick that prevents such broken deploys and ensures a more reliable deployment process. In my case, […]
The importance of read time for blog posts and how to automatically generate it using Node.js
In today’s fast-paced digital world, attention spans are getting shorter, and users often have limited time to consume content. As a result, providing readers with an estimated reading time can be a valuable feature for any blog or content-based website. Why having a read time for a blog post is important Automatically generate a read […]