From Telegram Analytics to Backend Developer
How a semester spent studying Telegram channel growth data turned into a career writing PHP — and why analytics work is a surprisingly good on-ramp to development.
Notes from the work.
How I got into this, what I learned shipping real plugins and platforms, and the occasional opinion about why smaller code usually wins.
Shipping a 150 KB Mac App With No Xcode Project, No Dependencies, No Electron
How ChargeBeep goes from one main.swift file to a drag-to-Applications .dmg with a single swiftc call and a 60-line bash script — and where code signing actually bites.
Keeping a Mac Awake Without Breaking Sleep: IOKit Power Assertions vs pmset
Why 'sudo pmset disablesleep' is a trap for a shippable app, and how a single IOKit power assertion keeps a Mac awake with zero privileges and automatic cleanup on crash.
Stop Polling the Battery — Listen to It Instead
Replacing a 30-second battery poll with an IOKit run-loop notification: instant reaction, near-zero idle cost, and a small state machine to fire the alert exactly once.
Why I Write a 200-Line Plugin Instead of Installing a 200,000-Line One
A case for writing small, single-purpose WordPress plugins instead of reaching for a heavyweight one — fewer dependencies, faster pages, and code you can actually read.
What Deeply Customizing LearnPress Taught Me About 'Extending' a Plugin
Notes from rebuilding an LMS on top of LearnPress: when to override a template, when to hook instead, and how to tell the two apart before you start.
Building WebAR Experiences on Top of WordPress
What it's like wiring augmented reality into an ordinary CMS: no native app, no App Store review, just a camera permission prompt and a lot of undocumented edge cases.
Lessons From Freelancing for Clients on Four Continents Before Turning 22
What remote WordPress work across Ukraine, Germany, Spain, Turkey and Canada taught me about time zones, scope creep, and getting paid on time.