Building a Device-Agnostic Web Development Setup 2025 Edition: My Journey with an iPad

December 17, 2024

Over the past decade, I’ve written about my unconventional journey as a developer using an iPad for web development. To me, being device-agnostic is the ultimate freedom — working from anywhere, on any device. I’ve even debugged critical issues from my phone, riding a bus in Seattle — before mobile tools had evolved to what

How to build a VPN client as a Docker container

September 8, 2022

There is not much to be found online about running a VPN inside Docker. Indeed, I do not believe many out there have thought about it, however leveraging a VPN inside of Docker unlocks a wealth of new possibilities. Here are just a few examples that come to mind, some of which I have used

Using An iPad For Web Development

May 31, 2020

My obsession with using an iPad for web development started all the way back with the first generation iPad. Tools then were sparse, but I made it work by jumping through some hoops. Today’s iPad is a much superior machine, and the available apps have come a long way toward making the iPad comfortable enough,

How to fix a WordPress HTTPS redirect loop with an NGINX reverse proxy

September 16, 2019

If your WordPress site is set up to use HTTPS and a reverse proxy, such as an NGINX reverse proxy, is put in front of it you may wind up with an infinite redirect loop. Following the redirect in dev tools, it looks like this is happening: https://example.com -> https://example.com A head scratcher for sure,