May 08 — 3 mins read

After getting tired of WordPress bloat and being annoyed with Jekyll's templating I finally moved to Laravel and Canvas. Here is how to set up Canvas CMS with Laravel.

Apr 26 — 3 mins read

In this post I explain how to install and basically configure PurgeCSS with Tailwind and Laravel Mix. This combination has decreased my production CSS file by 99% and halved load times!

Mar 30 — 4 mins read

This blog is extremely simple which makes it easy to optimize, but it's been a great exercise to learn optimization techniques. Eager Loading, caching, Laravel Mix and other tools prove to be great for reducing load times!

Feb 23 — 2 mins read

When building rokk.it, I wanted to give users' the ability to add their own domains for URL redirections. A simple idea proved to be more complex than I thought, and I ended up finding a method that allowed me to achieve my goal of having dynamic domain routing quite easily. All that was left was incorporating the Cloudways API for domain management.