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After working as a freelancer for many years, I have forgotten the names of many clients, the budgets of many projects, and even some of the websites I once spent weeks building. What I still remember, however, are the unusual situations that forced me to solve problems in ways I.

When people read the title of this article, they usually imagine that I’m making money by selling AI products, building AI agents, or launching another SaaS. That’s not actually what happened. The $180 comes from something much simpler: I stopped paying for a subscription I no longer needed. It isn’t.

Over the past decade, I’ve built WordPress websites for clients ranging from small businesses to large organizations. One issue has remained surprisingly consistent throughout those years: media files are often much larger than they need to be. A few unoptimized images, PDFs, or videos can dramatically increase page load times,.

For years, PHP developers have heard the same advice whenever performance comes up: “PHP is slow. Move to Go. Move to Rust.” Whether that criticism is fair or not, it has become part of the language’s reputation. Yet PHP has continued to evolve, introducing major improvements in performance, typing, and.