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Modern web development practices, tools, and frameworks
109 posts
A practical guide to canonical URLs: why duplicates happen on real sites, canonical vs 301 redirects, cross-domain canonicals for syndication, and how to audit your setup.
The practical rules for blog taxonomy: 5-8 categories, 1-2 per post, tags only when reused 3+ times. Plus the SEO side — thin archives, noindex decisions, and migrating a messy setup without losing rankings.
Topical authority is search engines trusting your site because it covers a topic completely. Here's how to map, publish, and measure a content cluster that earns it.
A practical guide to CMS caching: how page, object, opcode, browser, and CDN caches work together, what TTLs to use, and the invalidation pitfalls that bite every site.
A command-by-command walkthrough for hosting a CMS on a $5/month VPS: server hardening, the Nginx + PHP 8.3 stack, SQLite vs MySQL, free SSL, cron, and rclone backups.
An honest developer's comparison of SQLite and MySQL as the database under a CMS. Covers WAL mode, write concurrency, backups, benchmarks, and a decision table by site type.
A developer's guide to fixing Core Web Vitals on CMS sites: field vs lab data, the real causes behind failing LCP, INP, and CLS, and the prioritization order that pays off fastest.
A practical, mechanical guide to image SEO for blogs — file names, alt text, formats, compression, lazy loading, and structured data that compound with every post.
A practical pre-publish SEO checklist for blog posts: 20 checks grouped by intent, titles, structure, URLs, links, images, schema, and post-publish follow-up, each with a brief why.
Internal links are the most underused SEO lever: you control the source, target, and anchor of every one. This guide covers hub-and-spoke clusters, orphan pages, anchor variation, and a maintenance workflow that makes every new post strengthen the old ones.
A practical ladder for building CMS site search: SQL LIKE, database full-text, dedicated engines, and SaaS — with honest advice on when each tier is worth it.
A developer guide to headless CMS API tokens: which endpoints need auth, which token type to pick, and how to keep write tokens out of client bundles.