This is part 7 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 6 covered the build pipeline. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. Part 4 explained how the local/ override pattern works in principle — Tw…
This is part 6 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 5 covered the open-source release checklist. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. The command ddev build produces a complete static site in…
This is part 5 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 4 covers the local override pattern. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. I spent a month preparing my personal website's codebase for open…
This is part 4 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 3 covers security vulnerabilities. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. You want to share a Symfony project template. Every user needs to c…
This is part 3 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 2 covers the AI code review. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. "Static sites are secure." It's the most common thing people sa…
This is part 2 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 1 covers the test suite. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. The code passed PHPStan level 6. PHP CS Fixer had nothing to complain about. …
This is part 1 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. The series covers testing, code review, security, the local override pattern, the build pipeline, theme system, search architecture, and the release checklist. The original Word…
This is part 10 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 9 covers the multilanguage system. Part 5 covered how Claude Code was used during the initial build — AGENTS.md as the AI's instruc…
This is part 9 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 8 covers responsive images and scheduled posts. Adding a second language to a Symfony site usually means duplicating controllers, ha…
A WordPress site resizes uploaded images automatically. Scheduled posts have a "publish on" date picker in the editor. Both work without any custom code. On a static site, there's no server handling requests and no application layer checkin…
holas.pl scores 100 in Lighthouse's SEO category. What that actually checks: meta title is present, meta description is present, canonical URL is set, links are crawlable, the page is mobile-friendly. These are the minimum requirements — the things t…
holas.pl scores 100 in all four Lighthouse categories on mobile — Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. Mobile is the stricter test: slower simulated CPU, throttled network, tighter scoring thresholds. Getting all four to 100 there mea…
This is part 5 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 4 covers the developer experience and deployment. Building holas.pl involved writing a fair amount of PHP, Twig, and SCSS — and maki…
This is part 4 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 3 covers the contact form security. One of the goals for holas.pl was a development environment as simple as the production one. No …
Claude Code can connect to external tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — Sentry for production errors, JetBrains for IDE introspection, Context7 for library docs, Perplexity for web search. The problem: with six MCP servers available,…
This is part 3 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 2 covers the architecture. holas.pl is a static site with one exception: the contact form. Every blog post, category page, and stati…
This is part 2 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 1 covers why WordPress had to go. After deciding to leave WordPress, the question was what to replace it with. Hugo, Jekyll, and Ele…
holas.pl ran on WordPress from 2007 to early 2026. Nineteen years. In that time WordPress grew from a straightforward blogging platform into something I barely recognize — and maintaining it had become more work than maintaining the actual content. T…
This is the follow-up to my 2016 Let's Encrypt post using acme.sh and Apache. That setup worked, but running certificates by hand doesn't scale once you're managing multiple services in Docker. Traefik solves this entirely. Traefik is a reverse proxy…
My previous server — a Banana Pi running Debian — had served its purpose for years, but performance limitations and lack of support for newer technologies prompted me to upgrade. The main goal was to move to a container-based architecture and elimina…
Facebook tracks you across the web through the Like buttons, comment widgets, and invisible pixels embedded on millions of sites — even if you never click anything. A few browser extensions cut that reach significantly. uBlock Origin The essential fi…
This is a historical record of the setup I used in 2016 — acme.sh and Apache on Debian Jessie. It worked reliably at the time. For a modern approach using Docker and Traefik, see the followup post. Before Let's Encrypt, getting a browser-trusted SSL …
You want to peek at something behind a registration wall — a PDF download, a demo, a forum thread. You don't need an account, you just need to get past the email verification. So you create yet another throwaway Gmail, wait for the confirmation link,…
This is a historical record of my home server setup from 2015. It served reliably for several years before I migrated to a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2026. See how it evolved: Raspberry Pi 5: Migration to NVMe and service containerization. In 2015, single-boa…