Remkus de Vries

If you’re serious about delivering fast WordPress sites , or just tired of fighting performance without a clear roadmap, this is the course you’ve been waiting for. Let’s make WordPress fast. withinwp.com/courses/make-w…

I got a lot of reactions, comments, and DMs to my "The WordPress Conference We Need Next" blog post so I decided to turn it into a video, addressing the entire angle of why this is needed. Watch it and let me know what you think! youtube.com/watch?v=qqLXw3…

Have you heard about "the Edge"? The non-U2 version? The edge is a layer that lives in front of your site. It's a place in your stack that allows for requests to never reach WordPress at all. Things like Images, CSS, JavaScript, and Cached HTML for anonymous visitors should always live there. If the edge can answer a request to your website safely, PHP does nothing. Your database, your theme, none of your plugins, zero origin is loaded. Implementing the Edge is not a tweak, it is architectural leverage. Learn how to use the edge properly: withinwp.com/courses/make-w…

Implementing HTML caching for your WordPress site is powerful because it creates a fast path. The first request pays the full WordPress cost, and the next visitor gets the finished response. But the important word is “eligible.” Logged-out marketing page? Usually eligible. Cart? No. Checkout? No. Dashboard? Also no. A personalized page? Oh, hell no! Caching starts with understanding what can safely be reused. It's one of the core teachings of my Make WordPress Fast course: Learn the caching model: withinwp.com/courses/make-w…

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Turned my "The WordPress Conference We Need Next" blog post into a video. Learn why you should go to events like @Press__Conf, @checkoutsummit, @cloudfest, @LoopConf and more! youtube.com/watch?v=qqLXw3…

@MediaRonLLC Lol. I loved them as a young teenager, but they lost me after Achtung Baby.

@remkusdevries I’ve never liked someone making my ear drums want to explode from sheer vocal rejection.

@RobertJacobi @OliverSild Yessir!

Beyond done. Every time we meet, the answer will be the same, I don’t want to see your tokens. I don’t want to see anyone’s tokens. It’s great they are relatively inexpensive at the moment (I think @OliverSild mentions that in a comment) but so what. I’d rather see the post that says I used one token and I built a million dollar company. It always about the value one creates.

I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of done with all the “see me burn all the tokens” show posting here. I get it. You’re hooked. We know, let’s move on.

@MediaRonLLC Haha, you don’t like U2?

@remkusdevries Amything non-U2 is great.

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@EidolonNight I'm not saying meetups don't have their place, they very much do, but it's super hard to properly niche down and find the right target group for events... let alone meetups. And I think we need exactly that, better targetted groups showing up at these events.

In addition to full-scale events, I think a lot of businesses in the ecosystem would benefit from organizing meetups. Connecting locally is of course rewarding, but you'll also be able to do covert customer research as you sit across from a variety of users in a low-pressure environment.

@STEVEW00DY Well... if they're not thinking about this, I hope my video inspires them to actually strategize this.

@remkusdevries Interesting perspective, I wonder who else is thinking this

@rossmorsali @austinginder WILD

@austinginder Not exactly 1 shot - but I thought you might like this synth: delysergic.nl/instrument

Thought I'd give the new GPT 5.6-Sol a spin today as its supposed to be much better at design. I probably haven't mentioned it but I'm into music production - so I'm building a plugin for music production software (called a VST) which allow you to create drum patterns for your productions. Both were designed by GPT, but to be fair, I never asked for a nice design until today. Which do you like more, A or B??? 😂 The long term goal is to train a custom LLM to generate new patterns for drum loops, for inspiration when I get stuck.

@jimboflows @Vimeo By what logic?!

Just got an email from @Vimeo that my plan I have paid for years at $300 a year will now be....$4800 a year....

A must watch/listen. A lot of useful information here.

@TheCre8tiveDiva Thank you for sharing, Anita 🫶🏻

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@jpegtobbe Yeah, that is a very common mistake.

@remkusdevries People often don’t know there’s different types of cache. They think everything is page cache.