• Improving The Events Calendar Pro Performance for large sites

    If your site has a large number of events and if you notice performance issues, namely, calendar list pages take forever to load, then adding a composite index on wp_tec_occurences might help. Run this SQL Query at your own risk: CREATE INDEX idx_post_id_event_id_by ON wp_tec_occurrences(post_id, event_id);


  • Project: Smart Avatars

    Introducing Smart Avatars, a free API to generate unlimited custom-branded user avatars for your app. Why: The current alternative UI Avatars was too basic. I needed to use Google Fonts and it did not support it. So I saw an opportunity and built a better version. Why is this better: Smart Avatars includes support for custom fonts (See the list…


  • Laravel + Valet + Nginx internal redirection

    The following config needs to be added to Laravel Valet nginx config file if you’d like nginx to do an internal redirection to a static asset stored in the public location in your storage folder. This is especially useful for serving media assets like images that you’ve already generated before. Doing an internal redirect to…