Website development expert from Amsterdam on Usecue web development

Last year I explained why I built Hugobricks.

Last week I came across the website of Brand Creatives, a Dutch agency.

I think most (if not all) type foundries and font agencies are sketchy, but I want to point out this specific one: fonts.xyz.

In August 2026, Automattic launched the WordPress.com Student Plan, a free hosting package designed for students enrolled at participating educational institutions.

Yesterday I posted my zero-commission checkout on r/webdev and then spent the evening answering questions.

Yesterday we shipped EPC QR support in Usecue POS.

Webdesigner Depot published an article about making your website feel like magic in 2026.

For twenty years, making a textarea grow along with its content meant JavaScript: measure the content, write back a height, and patch every case where that goes wrong.

“Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right.

BCMS published an article about what makes a CMS user-friendly.

I had a solution for a clean, good looking, free Instagram widget on my website, but it no longer rendered in Firefox due to cross-domain restrictions.

What if I told you you could just use a ‘select’ with the ‘multiple’ attribute, without compatibility or usability issues?

The CEO and founder of PHI, Peter Egelberg, wrote that his website is probably the fastest website in the world.

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For 24 years, Jade Wong ran a vegan restaurant in New York, called ‘Red Bamboo’.

A client told me he liked this Wix template.

Static Site Generators (SSGs) are awesome… but there is one issue nobody talks about: publishing takes forever!

I saw the original Isotope Javascript fanciness and I just had to write a rebuild using modern web standards.

I have added a canary to the homepage.

If you want to skip the design phase of a website development project, you can choose to buy a ready-made website, also called a theme or template.

Hiroshi Abe (阿部 寛, born June 22, 1964) is a Japanese actor.

Wordpress breaks often.

I am a Dutch guy running a web development company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

I read this on Reddit [redacted]: “Why do most programmers that I talk to, who have more experience than me, seem to not care about performance as much?

The Stockholm Wordpress theme, available on Envato, recently caught my eye.

How to avoid getting scammed when hiring a developer?

“Takumi” is a name of Japanese origin and is typically given to boys.

Ukko is a WordPress theme designed specifically for personal portfolios.

Ik heb een CMS gebouwd voor de snelste static site generator ter wereld (Hugo).

“Isn’t that a song?”

I am sort of famous.

Switching to a static site is like upgrading from a clunky old car to a sleek electric vehicle—faster, safer, and more efficient.

“A static website?

I tried BunnyCDN on behalf of some of my clients who wanted to achieve better performance on their international e-commerce projects.

I get asked this question a lot.

My website was loading instantly… but mostly from within Europe, as it did not use a CDN.

We probably all know a lot of ‘Yo mama’ jokes.

“Some webpages use so much unnecessary code, they could as well (down)load the whole Bible.”

I am always amazed by people’s choices… especially when they cost them a lot of money.

A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and websites for those who maintain there’s a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences.

I bought a cheap React portfolio template at Themeforest for only 14 dollar.

When I looked at my Google Search Console today, it seemed like my traffic had dropped to zero!

Today I stumbled upon OpenFreeMap.

I normally do not like to toot my own horn… but I have ported over 25 client websites from Jekyll to Hugo to make them faster.

There is a whole generation of developers who no longer know how to build simple websites and web applications.

Last June, before the whole WordPress drama with WPEngine, Matt Mullenweg held a speech at WordCamp Europe in Turin.

I just read on the website of James Smith that align-content works in the default layout in 2024.

There are only four things you have to know when you want to build a fast website.

WP Engine disabled revisions and Matt Mullenweg is furious about it, for all the wrong reasons.

This website has a perfect Google Lighthouse score.