Hey, I’m Stella Sage — and this is my corner of the web.
I’ve spent the last decade shipping real products: PHP back-ends that don’t fall over under load, front-ends that load fast enough to feel instant, and WordPress sites that are actually easy to run. I care about the unglamorous stuff that makes a site reliable — the caching layers, the static builds, the database queries that quietly eat your page speed at 2am.
Here, I write the way I’d talk to a teammate: concrete examples, real code, and honest trade-offs. No “10 tools you’ll never use” listicles, no AI-generated filler. If I’m recommending a stack, I’ve been in production with it long enough to know what breaks.
What you’ll find on this site:
- Developer tools — the utilities, CLIs, and platforms I actually reach for, and the ones I’d steer you away from.
- Learning to code — hands-on walkthroughs for the fundamentals that tutorials gloss over.
- Performance & WordPress — how to make a CMS site fast, lean, and easy to maintain.
Whether you’re debugging a flaky deployment or starting your first side project, I hope something here saves you an afternoon. That’s the whole point.
— Stella
