iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 01/03/2025

I've been reminiscing about a childhood toy my parents vetoed because of its astronomical price tag. The beautiful thing about adulthood? No one can tell me no anymore 🤣 My 1988 vintage (re-release) Tamiya Avante is arriving next week! #ChildhoodDreams #AdultingPerks

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 04/02/2025

We've got a new family member! Meet Luna—she’s absolutely AMAZING! 🐾 A pro at napping, cable-chewing, and midnight head-stomping. Follow her adventures on Instagram: www.instagram.com/luna_purrspe... 🐱✨

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 05/01/2025

🚀 I've launched StaleCache - a #Laravel inspired library for #WordPress that implements stale-while-revalidate caching. It serves stale content while silently updating, prevents cache stampedes, and reduces load on expensive operations. Available as a #Composer package. github.com/ryanhellyer/...

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GitHub - ryanhellyer/stale-cache: Stale Cache for WordPress

Stale Cache for WordPress. Contribute to ryanhellyer/stale-cache development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 05/01/2025

I built a stale cache handler for #WordPress (borrowed some ideas from #Laravel's new Cache::flexible implementation 😉). It's rough around the edges but working nicely! Take a look: github.com/ryanhellyer/stale-cache

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 03/01/2025

Does anyone know of a class/library/package that handles stale caches well in #WordPress? I tried building my own tonight but I made a mess of it 😅 I'd love to use something that's already been through the wringer, rather than my half baked spare of the moment attempt 😀

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 02/01/2025

Interesting explanation here on why to watch out for strange interactions between commenting, cookies, SEO and caching systems. It's specific to WordPress, but I could imagine other platforms suffering similar problems too.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 01/01/2025

Tracking my 2024 fitness journey 📊 Red = rest day 🛋️ Yellow = light activity 🚶‍♂️ Green = full workout 💪 Had a breakthrough in July and was super happy with the second half of the year (despite two winter colds!). Aiming to keep this up in 2025! #FitnessGoals ryan.hellyer.kiwi/2025/fitness...

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Fitness 2024 - Ryan Hellyer

I’ve been tracking my fitness activities this year with a super simple system – red days for total couch potato mode, yellow for when I squeeze in some movement, and green for those proper sweat sessi...

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 21/12/2024

Fascinating AI challenge: @maiachess created a ML bot that plays chess like a real human! Test your detection skills on Lichess (lichess.org/@/maia1) or try their "bot or not" beta at maiachess.com. I'm currently listed on the leaderboard, but it's tricky! 🤖♟️ #Chess #AI

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 19/12/2024

Finally! Now all us with functioning taste buds can log back in.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 16/12/2024

Would you find it strange or endearing if you received a postcard with a photo taken from your house's balcony in 1987? I took it when I was 8 and lived there. Thinking of sending this to the current owners before visiting NZ next year. Creepy or sweet? 🤔

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 12/12/2024

I'm on the hunt for the best disk space to price ratio for a VPS. 💻💰 Netcup are offering a whopping 512 GB for just €14.99/month. 😮 Do any of you know an even better deal out there? #VPSHosting www.netcup.com/de/server/vps

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 11/12/2024

Ohh, this is interesting. A Syrian army officers report on the fall of the Assad regime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgje...

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The Fall of Bashar - from a Syrian Army officer's perspective

YouTube video by NCFpeace

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 10/12/2024

In the past decade of PHP development, I've seen us shift from recommending comprehensive inline documentation, to self-documenting code. My latest project has near zero comments - feels strange but somehow correct? Am I the only one that feels weird about this?

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 08/12/2024

I sorta rolled my eyes due to seeing so many terrible hosts claiming to be "secure", but this looks wildly different - locked down, uneditable files, separate media upload system. #WordPress #Hosting Thanks to @rmccue.io for sharing it.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 08/12/2024

A goal I set one year ago: touch my toes by 2025-01-22. I'm 4 cm short of both simultaneously with 6 weeks to go, but each foot individually is doable. Does this count? I wasn't very specific with what "touching my toes" meant. random.hellyer.kiwi/fitness-goal...

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Fitness goal for 2025-01-22 - Ryan's random stuff

My new fitness goal, is to be able to touch my toes by 2025-01-22.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 04/12/2024

30 years of me being wrong: 📧 1994: "Email won't replace fax" 📺 2004: "Web video won't replace TV" 🌐 2014: "PHP in the browser? LOL" 🤖 2024: "It's just dumb AI, not Skynet LOL" Time keeps proving my skepticism wrong #PHP

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 04/12/2024

Bahahaha, this is something I've muttered about implementing for many years but never gotten around to.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 04/12/2024

Oh the irony - right after tweeting this to @remkusdevries.com about having no engagement over on Twitter, I ended up creating my most popular tweet ever 😂 x.com/ryanhellyer/...

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 03/12/2024

So simple, yet so effective. I've usually used a much more convoluted approach when I've needed to implement this sort of thing.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 03/12/2024

If you are like me, and had no idea that there's a TweetDeck equivalent for Bluesky ... deck.blue Bonus points for it being free! I'm posting this from it just now. Thanks to @remkusdevries.com for showing it to me.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 03/12/2024

This feels like me this week.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 03/12/2024

How many #WordPress devs have used #Laravel? I'm blown away by the built-in features - stuff that needs sketchy WP plugins just takes a simple class import in Laravel. 🤯 I should have been playing with this a long time ago.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 02/12/2024

Question for the #Laravel experts: With Breeze login/registration, do you study every file or just install and move on? I'm surprised it’s not abstracted away, instead of leaving me responsible for it. 🤔

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 01/12/2024

Does anybody else get a warm fuzzy feeling inside whenever you fill your fridge to the brim with food? Mine sits lifeless and sad most of them. Today it is looking very healthy and full of food though :)

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 28/11/2024

This video has really good information about #Laravel in it. I loved the section about LiveWire Volt and concurrency. I wish #WordPress had a lot of this stuff built into it.

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 28/11/2024

This is a super cool little #CSS snipper which implements a stopwatch. I have no idea what anyone would use it for, but it's nice to see oddball innovations like this 😀

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 27/11/2024

I feel like I'm back on Twitter in the early days, when I was like "ohhh, someone into #WordPress, follow, someone into #PHP, follow". Doing that on Twitter now would result in a unruly feed 😝

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Rhys Wynne @rhys.wales · 25/11/2024

Because for **some inexplicable reason** I have twice the number of followers of him, the co-founder of #WordPress (and awesome fellow) Mike Little is here. Give him a follow. 👍

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Ryan Hellyer @ryan.hellyer.kiwi · 26/11/2024

@kaspars.net Have you ever worked with OpenResty before? I installed it last night, and have been kinda stunned by how much functionality I can now bake directly into the web server level.

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