Published December 7th, 2025 under Misc
Track Laravel performance in production without heavy tools. This lightweight package injects generation times as invisible HTML comments. Perfect for instant developer audits.
Published April 13th, 2025 under Misc
A WordPress implementation of the stale-while-revalidate pattern that serves content instantly while refreshing caches in the background, preventing slowdowns during high traffic periods.
Published September 16th, 2023 under Misc
After trying FitBit and Samsung watches, the Whoop Strap disappoints despite its no-screen concept and steep subscription fee. Lacking GPS and a step counter, it fails to offer complete fitness tracking. Explore why it might not be worth the investment.
Published September 8th, 2023 under Misc
View and download my presentation slides from WordCamp Netherlands. Available for immediate access at geek.hellyer.kiwi/presentations/.
Published February 25th, 2023 under Misc
Simplify WordPress gallery code with a snippet that converts it to an unordered list. Check it out at on my Simpler WordPress gallery code page.
Published January 29th, 2023 under Misc
It seems that every once in a while, I need to disable more Gutenberg rubbish messing with WordPress websites. Here is an updated Gutenberg junk removal script.
Published October 12th, 2022 under Misc
WordPress keeps adding more code junk, even when you aren’t using the WordPress block editor. Thankfully this is something which is trivial to fix.
Published January 16th, 2022 under Misc
A simple shim function to make the super useful str_contains() function from PHP 8 work in older versions of PHP.
Published July 16th, 2021 under Misc
There has been a recent trend to buy “Legal LSD”. Many assume they are buying actual real LSD, but they are not.
Published February 13th, 2020 under Misc
Almost two years ago, I wrote a post called Disable Gutenberg junk about how to remove extraneous junk CSS added via the Gutenberg plugin.
