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Chris Coyier (@css) has shared a code snippet that will add loading="lazy" to every scr=" instance in WordPress's content. But this will replace every instance, not only in img or iframe tags, which can lead to some unwanted replacements. Here's my …

If there’s one thing that now-me would urgently tell past-me, when starting this whole self-employed business, it is this: Beware of „cost“ focussed clients, seek the „investment“ minded ones. Adapt your communication accordingly. If your services are seen …

Imagine you'd like to build a database with not only every data you usually can get through user interaction with your service and the device where your app has been installed on, but with pictures of your user's faces, too. What a treasure trove in …

Yesterday I once again got stuck with a seemingly simple task that quickly turned out to be a veritable rabbit hole: In a client website the header images are managed using the 'resources' tab of a page. File references are stored in the 'media' …

‪Another little tweak to my website; the posts of type‬ 'status', which I use most of the time as a source for syndication to twitter (as with this post here right now), are now excluded from the main 'category' archives. The "pre_get_posts" hook is han …

Today the german hosting company "domainFactory" (dF) announced that they will stop supporting the old PHP Versions 4 and 5. dF is one of the last providers to do so. So this comes as no surprise and I've been waiting for this moment for quite a …