We Fixed The Progress Bar: A Jetpack Boost Debugging Story
Last week I published a post about Jetpack Boost’s progress bar going backwards. That post was an analysis: what the code does, why the bar behaves oddly, and a commentary on misleading code comments. This…
I Shaved 156 MB Off My Blog by Converting PNGs to WebP
I just shaved 156 MB off my blog. Not the database, not the theme, not some plugin audit. The images. The Problem Nobody Talks About If you use AI to generate featured images for your…
The Progress Bar That Goes Backwards: A Jetpack Boost Source Code Archaeology
You click “Regenerate Critical CSS.” The progress bar crawls forward: 20%, 30%, 40%. Then it drops to 20%. Climbs back to 50%. Drops to 35%. Eventually it hits 100%, and you exhale. Then it starts…