Gabe Herbert

Goals

I’m 15 years into a career in tech. More actually, but I’m counting from the time I incorporated myself in 2009. I’ve been working with WordPress that entire time, and spent some of those early years as a network engineer.

I want to share

It’s hard to summarize my career, because I’ve rarely spent time looking backward. I never built a portfolio because I’ve always gotten plenty of work by referral. But there’s a lot of value in recording and even publishing my progress and I want to do that. I hope that I can recall some of my best stories and experiences, but largely I want to record what I’ve learned in tech to share, teach, and learn more for and about myself in the process.

Software I know a lot about

  • Mac OS
  • Linux
  • WordPress
  • LAMP / LEMP hosting
  • PHP
  • Javascript
  • Cloudflare
  • MIDI
  • Ableton Live

Specific topics to write about

There is plenty of great content on all of these topics already, so I’ll also link to articles that save me the trouble 😂

  • WordPress
    • Building performant sites
      • optimizing non-performant sites
    • Security
    • Troubleshooting issues on live sites
      • logs
      • monitoring requests
    • Deeper troubleshooting
      • Debugging PHP
      • Reproducing issues locally
    • WordPress Plugin development
      • Where to start – finding the right hooks to build on
      • How to use XDebug
      • Local development
      • Git workflow
  • Cloudflare (I’m such a fanboy)
    • Page cache
      • Understanding cache headers WordPress
    • WAF
      • Optimal settings for WordPress
    • Workers
      • Problems in other software that I’ve fixed with Workers
      • Interesting use cases for WordPress performance
    • Zero Trust
      • How I protect my small business with Gateway and Access
      • What Zero Trust can do for your business and how to get started
    • Images
    • Tunnels
      • Hosting WordPress behind Cloudflare Tunnels
      • Using Tunnels during web development
  • MacOS
    • Where 36 years as a Mac user has brought me
    • Favorite Mac apps as a web developer
  • Security
    • Best practices I constantly tell my friends and family
  • Ableton Live
    • My current workflow
    • What I still wish it could do