Hector's Lab — Field Notes & Dispatches

Lab Notes

Everything that happens in the lab eventually ends up here. Experiments, opinions, builds in progress, things that went wrong, things that went right. Unfiltered. Mostly.

Vol. I Ongoing 3 Entries
001

Why I ditched page builders (and you probably should too)

The moment I realised native blocks were faster, leaner, and far less annoying than the drag-and-drop giants everyone swears by.

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002

Speed matters: how we hit 100/100 on PageSpeed

The exact changes that took our themes from "pretty fast" to "ridiculously fast." Spoiler: it wasn't a plugin.

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003

The subscription trap nobody talks about

Why recurring payments are a design failure masquerading as a business model, and what we're doing instead.

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