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Why This Site Exists

Server boy is called Server boy because, for some odd reason, I was humming Skater boy. Yes that’s a 2.4 decades old song. And I was doing a lot of sys admin, moving my sites from a managed environment to a cold, dark vps. A lot of emotions there I am sure.

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  • Drinking my biryani

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    Drinking my biryani

    So here’s the thing. I’m not a developer. I’m a business coach now, who knows just enough to be dangerous. But I’ve spent the…

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  • Why Lambos come after page speed

    $ cat ./post.md

    Why Lambos come after page speed

    When was the last time you were worried about page speeds? You probably worry a lot about it, right? Why page speeds matter For…

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  • Hello world!

    $ cat ./post.md

    Hello world!

    OK I can edit this. It was just old editor stuff, needed to be converted to blocks. Which I did. So there. And that…

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Optimizing Website Speed

This is what I am – for some reason – addicted to. This game, get the page speeds in the green. Sure, I spend money on ads, but nothing pulls me than a fast loading site. That’s what I want and working towards. This is capturing some of that journey

Practicing these skills

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Server Management

CLI intrigues me. This makes me experience that raw power, unfiltered by “Are you sure” type of hand-holding. I couldn’t do it before, now AI helps me do it.

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WordPress Optimization

Love WordPress. Optimizing it myself makes me feel like an adult. Being on the page builder drug feels like I’ve been playing video games.

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Gutenberg & FSE

Revisiting the WordPress core has confused me to the core! Templates, patterns, blocks, synced, locked. How why what?

What people are saying

“Vibe coding is what librarians did when they googled the book”

Librarian,
Unemployed
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