Journal

Field notes from denge.

Performance, localization, WordPress, the open web. Published when we have something useful to say.

Phase 2 skeleton

How we hit 100 Lighthouse on a multilingual WordPress theme

Block-native architecture, edge image optimization, and the i18n bundle-splitting trick.

6 min

Building a license-validation system in Next.js 16

Domain-based activation, idempotent activation, and the unique-active-site partial index.

9 min

Why we built our own checkout instead of WooCommerce

Stripe Elements, license-on-success, and the case for owning the conversion path.

7 min