Journal
Notes from inside the build. What was decided, what it cost, and the things that only look obvious afterwards.
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· 5 min read
Counting visitors without cookies
The analytics here are sixty lines of PHP that set no cookies and tell no third party anything. What that measures, what it cannot, and why the trade was worth it.
- Privacy
- Analytics
- PHP
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· 4 min read
The session bug that quietly ate my enquiries
A contact form that reported failure while doing everything right. PHP was loading a different php.ini for one file than another — a trap unique to shared hosting.
- PHP
- Debugging
- Hosting
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· 5 min read
A website with no build step, on purpose
No Node, no Composer, no bundler, no lockfile — deploying this site is copying a folder. What that buys, what it costs, and why PaidLane is built the other way.
- PHP
- Architecture
- Web performance