Volgen: Track 2

  • Say yes to the app!

    Every WordPress developer knows the feeling: a client asks, “Can you build me a mobile app, too?” and, more often than not, the answer is a disappointing “No.” I’ve been there. More than once. But this year I finally broke that cycle and could confidently say “Yes!” I know what you are thinking, but no;…

  • Level Up Accessibility Testing with Playwright

    Accessibility is a core part of building inclusive, user-friendly products. However, many teams still struggle to test accessibility effectively. What if it were as easy and automated as your end-to-end tests? In this talk, we’ll explore why accessibility matters, how it impacts real users, and what the WCAG guidelines mean for developers. From there, you’ll…

  • How I used AI to build a Zero-Downtime Content Deployment Pipeline

    Deploying content updates to high-traffic WordPress sites has traditionally meant choosing between scheduled maintenance windows or accepting the risk of editing on the live-site — but modern CI/CD tooling changes that equation entirely. This talk walks through the architecture of a GitHub Actions and Bitbucket Pipelines workflow that orchestrates Zero Downtime Content deployment on Pantheon,…

  • Good bot, bad bot – hoe houd je botverkeer in bedwang?

    Het verkeer dat je website of webshop bezoekt veranderd. Volgens CloudFlare is inmiddels zo’n 57% van al het internetverkeer een AI bot. Deze bots hebben verschillende doelen; eigen modellen trainen, zoeken naar informatie of op verzoek van een gebruiker een website analyseren. Deze doelen zijn flink anders dan de bezoekers en Googlebots waar we onze…

  • Get creative with GitHub Actions

    If you are a solo developer on a project, Quality Assurance checks are the only thing that keeps you honest.And having QA checks set up is all nice and dandy, but if you don’t run them….In comes, GitHub Actions to automatically run all your QA checks and more…. More ? Yes, why limit yourself to…

  • Who are you without your tech stack? Human skills AI can’t automate

    Picture two extreme futures: A total grid collapse with no internet or power, or a world where AI has automated you out of a job. In both scenarios, your tech stack, your certifications, and your prompt-engineering skills are completely useless. So, who are you without them? Strip away everything a machine can do faster and…

  • Create blocks with PHP only

    WordPress 7.0 introduced a new feature: PHP block registration exclusively via PHP. Registration, metadata, assets, and rendering—all in one place. Developers can now create simple blocks using PHP alone. This is intended for blocks that only need to be rendered on the server side and aren’t meant to be particularly interactive. This API is designed…

  • Begrijp code beter en fix bugs sneller met de Ray debugger

    Ray is een desktop-applicatie voor het tonen van logs, foutmeldingen en andere debug output. Voor zowel lokale projecten als, je leest het goed, externe servers. Ray is het lichtgewicht broertje van XDebug, eenvoudig te installeren en in gebruik. Het vervangt je `var_dump()`, `dd()` en `console.log()` met een overzichtelijk scherm zodat het niet je front-end onbruikbaar…