✒️ Writing

I regularly contribute articles to several magazines, including CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine, the LogRocket blog, MasterWP, the Kinsta blog, the StepZen blog, Design Bombs and WPKube.

To date, these are my articles:

CSS-Tricks permalink

Explaining how the GatoGraphQL/GatoGraphQL GitHub repo was setup:

🎩 From a Single Repo, to Multi-Repos, to Monorepo, to Multi-Monorepo

Detailed explanation of the driver behind the GraphQL API for WordPress:

🎩 Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL

Tips for making the most out of the WordPress editor.

🎩 Using Markdown and Localization in the WordPress Block Editor

🎩 Adding a Custom Welcome Guide to the WordPress Block Editor

Smashing Magazine permalink

It concerns a wide array of topics, including web design and performance, coding in WordPress, designing architectures and implementing them in PHP, and others.

😸 How To Work With GraphQL In WordPress In 2024

😸 How To Host A WordPress Site On Amazon Lightsail

😸 Adding Search To Your Site In 15 Minutes

😸 Using The WordPress Editor And CPTs To Configure Plugins

😸 Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol

😸 Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website

😸 Creating A Public/Private Multi-Monorepo For PHP Projects

😸 Four Useful VSCode Extensions For Web Developers

😸 Spinning Up Multiple WordPress Sites Locally With DevKinsta

😸 Setting Up A Currency Convertor With ExchangeRatesApi.io

😸 Making GraphQL Work In WordPress

😸 Building An E-Commerce Site With October CMS And Shopaholic

😸 Abstracting WordPress Code To Reuse With Other CMSs: Implementation (Part 2)

😸 Abstracting WordPress Code To Reuse With Other CMSs: Concepts (Part 1)

😸 Exploring New Ways To Manage Content In WordPress

😸 “Create Once, Publish Everywhere” With WordPress

😸 Postmortem Of Gutenberg The Launch, So We Can Embrace Gutenberg The Product

😸 Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy

😸 The (Upcoming) WordPress Renaissance

😸 Going Serverless With Cloudflare Workers

😸 A Detailed Comparison Between WordPress And October CMS

😸 Using Composer With WordPress

😸 Improving WordPress Code With Modern PHP

😸 Introducing The Component-Based API

😸 Caching Smartly In The Age Of Gutenberg

😸 Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Automatically Inlined Code

😸 Implications Of Thinking In Blocks Instead Of Blobs

😸 Sending Emails Asynchronously Through AWS SES

😸 Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

😸 Adding Code-Splitting Capabilities To A WordPress Website Through PoP

😸 How To Make A Dynamic Website Become Static Through A Content CDN

😸 Implementing A Service Worker For Single-Page App WordPress Sites

LogRocket blog permalink

Articles on PHP-based software architecture.

🚀 What you need to know about the Block Protocol

🚀 Phabel vs. Rector: Which is better for transpiling PHP code?

🚀 Including both PHP 7.1 and 8.0 code in the same plugin … or not?

🚀 Building extensible PHP apps with Symfony DI

🚀 Tips for transpiling code from PHP 8.0 down to 7.1

🚀 Hosting all your PHP packages together in a monorepo

🚀 Tips for creating your first Rector rule to transform PHP code

🚀 Coding in PHP 7.4 and deploying to 7.1 via Rector and GitHub Actions

🚀 Transpiling PHP code from 8.0 to 7.x via Rector

Articles on implementing functionalities on Gutenberg (the WordPress editor).

🚀 Essentials for building your first Gutenberg block

🚀 Setting up your first Gutenberg project

Series of articles on conceptualizing, designing and implementing a GraphQL server.

🚀 Exploring the future potential of generic GraphQL error codes

🚀 Fetching dynamically structured data in a CMS with GraphQL

🚀 What’s new in the latest GraphQL spec

🚀 When to use multiple endpoints in GraphQL

🚀 What we can learn from GraphQLConf 2021

🚀 Field arguments vs directives in GraphQL

🚀 Swapping GraphQL servers with the least effort

🚀 Authorization through access control in GraphQL

🚀 Designing a URL-based query syntax for GraphQL

🚀 HTTP caching in GraphQL

🚀 Supporting opt-in nested mutations in GraphQL

🚀 Coding a GraphQL server in JavaScript vs. WordPress

🚀 Adding directives to the schema in code-first GraphQL servers

🚀 Creating an @export GraphQL directive

🚀 Treating GraphQL directives as middleware

🚀 GraphQL directives are underrated

🚀 Versioning fields in GraphQL

🚀 Speeding up changes to the GraphQL schema

🚀 Code-first vs. schema-first development in GraphQL

🚀 Simplifying the GraphQL data model

🚀 Designing a GraphQL server for optimal performance

MasterWP permalink

Opinion pieces on anything concerning WordPress.

👨🏻‍🏫 🏃🏻How I run Integration Tests for my WP plugin using Lando and InstaWP

👨🏻‍🏫 Some great stuff I’ve learnt from WordCamp Europe 2022

👨🏻‍🏫 Some great stuff I’ve learnt from WordSesh 2022

👨🏻‍🏫 Would WordPress be better off by Joining the Block Protocol?

👨🏻‍🏫 Costs Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol

Kinsta blog permalink

Innovative web development trends, mostly concerning PHP and WordPress.

💻 How to make a WordPress plugin extensible with PHP classes

💻 Installing setup data for a WordPress plugin

💻 Architecting a WordPress plugin to support extensions

💻 10 PHP Testing Tools for WordPress Plugins

💻 The Ultimate Guide for Transpiling PHP Code

💻 WordPress Abstraction: Best Practices and WordPress Abstraction Plugins

💻 Monorepo vs Multi-Repo: Pros and Cons of Code Repository Strategies

StepZen blog permalink

Anything related to GraphQL.

⼻ How is GraphQL Different from Programming Languages? Part 2

⼻ How is GraphQL Different from Programming Languages? Part 1

⼻ Should GraphQL allow Recursive Fragments?

⼻ What I Learned from Reading the GraphQL Spec - Part 2

⼻ GraphQL: Mapping Error Messages to Generic Error Codes

⼻ What I Learned from Reading the GraphQL Spec - Part 1

⼻ GraphQL: On Directives Transforming the Behavior of Directives

⼻ GraphQL: How to Alias a Nested Field as a Parent Field

⼻ Coming Soon To GraphQL: The oneof Input Object

⼻ How to Check if a Value is Empty in GraphQL

⼻ Tiny Decisions to Make When Designing a GraphQL API

⼻ Caching the GraphQL Introspection Query in a CDN

⼻ Modeling User-Defined Settings in the GraphQL Schema

⼻ Categorizing GraphQL Directives into Schema or Query Type

⼻ Bridging GraphQL Queries Between Relay and non-Relay Schemas

⼻ Hacking GraphiQL to Invoke it From the Outside

⼻ Manipulating Data in GraphQL with Dynamic Variables

⼻ Unconventional Ways of Using GraphQL

⼻ Tips for Creating a GraphQL Schema for an Existing Application

⼻ Exploring Promising New Feature Proposals for the GraphQL Spec

⼻ Improving the Development Experience with GraphQL

⼻ Exploring GraphQL Directives in the Wild

⼻ How Different Are REST and GraphQL After All?

⼻ A Visual Guide to GraphiQL and GraphQL Voyager

Design Bombs permalink

Mostly concerning tooling around WordPress.

💣 Reusing Functionality for WordPress Plugins with Blocks

💣 Adding Modal Windows in the WordPress Admin Without JavaScript

💣 Tips of Building Large-scale Applications in PHP

💣 How to Register Gutenberg Blocks for Some Custom Post Type only, using PHP (not JS!)

💣 Exposing WordPress site data for mobile apps

💣 Creating a Gutenberg block using the official new package

💣 Bootstrapping WordPress projects with Composer and WP-CLI

WPKube permalink

Anything related to WordPress.

🟦 Implementing a GraphQL server with components in PHP