Introduction Email servers are constant targets for bots: spam attempts, relay tests, fake login floods. When I noticed a huge increase in spam and attack attempts on my Exim4 mail…Continue reading
Are Blogs Dead?
Are Blogs Dead? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself. I started this blog way back in 2010. For years, it was a place where I shared thoughts, ideas, and…Continue reading
PHP Passwordless User Login with WEB3 Connect and Metamask
WEB3 is becoming the buzzword of the year – if you don’t know exactly what it is join the club! Suffice to say that WEB3 will decentralise the Internet enabling…Continue reading
How to Configure Varnish for Magento 2
Varnish and Magento 2 go together like Strawberries and Cream – you just cannot have one without the other. Recently I got really confused about the correct way to configure…Continue reading
Magento 2 Asynchronous Message Queue Management with RabbitMQ
The Magento Message Queue Framework was made available in the Open Source version of Magento with version 2.3 and provides a standards based system for modules to publish messages to…Continue reading
Magento 2 Custom Customer Registration Checkbox and Text Attributes
I spent many hours recently trying to figure out why a custom Magento 2 customer registration attribute was not working only to find that a relatively simple mistake was the…Continue reading
How to Improve Magento 2 ElasticSearch Catalog Search Results and Relevance
TL;DR Migrating the Magento 2 catalog search engine to Smile ElasticSuite will resolve pretty much all the issues you might be experiencing with Magento 2 native ElasticSearch catalog search so…Continue reading
Improve Slow Loading Magento 2 Large Configurable Products
Configurable products have changed a lot in Magento 2. Compared to Magento 1, Magento 2 configurable products are just containers for simple products (variations). You can no longer configure pricing…Continue reading
Magento 2 Custom Dynamic Maintenance Page with NGINX
I was working on my procedures for applying updates to a production Magento 2 site recently and decided it was a pretty good idea to put Magento into maintenance mode…Continue reading
Magento 2 Javascript Bundling with Magepack
Magento 2 PageSpeed (Lighthouse) performance audit results for mobile and desktop are notoriously bad. Imagine you have worked for months on a new Magento 2 eCommerce store, followed best practices…Continue reading