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WordPress
Why this theme has no cascade layers
Cascade layers solve the wrong half of the problem. Here is the specificity tie that made me delete them.
Front-end
Shipping less JavaScript than you think you need
A budget is only useful if it is measured after compression and on the page that actually pays it.
WordPress
A WP_Query that does not query twice
no_found_rows is the flag that matters, and the cache flags are the ones people cargo-cult wrong.
Tooling
Estimating reading time is fine even when it is wrong
The number does not have to be accurate to be useful. It has to be honest about what it is counting.
Front-end
Self-hosting fonts without the layout shift
Metric-matched fallbacks are the whole trick. Everything else is just a file copy.
Tooling
Running WP-CLI against a Local site on Windows
Local ships a PHP CLI with no php.ini. Three small shims fix it without touching the install.