I once spent three days untangling a "premium" client site only to realize the developer had hardcoded every single string of text directly into the...
Author: Rasheeda Volkov
A theme is a set of decisions somebody else made. I read them before installing.
I’ve spent nine years unravelling the digital equivalent of a ball of tangled yarn, usually because some "expert" thought they could skip the boring...
I’ve spent nine years un-breaking websites that people thought were "finished," and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people...
I’ve spent the last nine years cleaning up the digital equivalent of a landfill, and if there is one thing that makes my eyes twitch, it’s seeing a...
I was elbow-deep in a client’s legacy site last Tuesday—one of those "Frankenstein" builds I keep in my horror story folder—when I realized their...
I spent three hours last Tuesday digging through the wreckage of a client site that had been "secured" by someone who thought installing a $200...
I’ve spent nine years un-breaking sites that people thought were "broken" simply because they didn't understand the architecture they’d inherited....
I spent three hours last Tuesday staring at a client’s backend, watching a single product page take six seconds to load because they’d insisted on a...
I was digging through a client’s site last Tuesday—one of those bloated, "modern" builds that felt like it was held together by prayer and too many...
I remember staring at a client’s dashboard at 2:00 AM, the blue light of my monitor making my eyes ache, while a frantic email from a business owner...