TL;DRAfter I started tinkering with SkiFree in 1997, I kept learning the same lesson over and over: constraints don’t prevent good engineering—they create it. When you don’t have unlimited time, money, or tooling, you learn to value what actually scales: clear scope,...
TL;DRIn 1997, my family got our first computer—a Windows dinosaur with a little skiing game called SkiFree. At seven years old, I started pulling it apart with library books, trying to figure out what it was written in and how it worked. I pushed that machine past its...
Most WordPress sites get faster—then slowly regress. In Step 3, I show how to protect performance with monitoring, update governance, backups, rollbacks, and budgets.