Danny van Kooten

Blog

2026

• Using phpactor as a language server for WordPress development February 26, 2026

2025

• Pensioenbeleggen: optimaal jaarruimte benutten? October 7, 2025
• Using Composer with a specific PHP version on Alpine Linux September 10, 2025
• Benchmarking listing files in a local directory in PHP September 2, 2025
• Building self-hosted and privacy-friendly website analytics. Again. January 16, 2025

2024

• Migrating a Doctrine database from SQLite to MySQL June 22, 2024
• C++ development setup in 2024 April 6, 2024
• Setting up a VPS for static site hosting February 20, 2024
• sourcehut pages: redirect (sub)domain February 12, 2024
• One Billion Rows Challenge in C January 4, 2024
• Using CSS calc to make elements fullscreen January 2, 2024

2023

• Climate friendly software December 13, 2023
• HTML compression on popular websites November 27, 2023
• RFC822 formatted datetimes and CET timezone November 22, 2023
• Preparing videos for Mastodon using ffmpeg November 2, 2023
• Speeding up the Koko Analytics dashboard October 31, 2023
• Introducing Koko Analytics Pro October 18, 2023
• Replacing annotations with PHP attributes - with Rector July 10, 2023

2022

• Minification and cache directives for the most popular websites of the internet November 29, 2022
• (Re)writing an interpreter in Rust November 17, 2022

2021

• Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second April 2, 2021

2020

• Writing a bytecode interpreter - in C March 6, 2020
• CO2 emissions on the web February 4, 2020

2019

• Personal goals for 2020 December 31, 2019
• Introducing Koko Analytics November 7, 2019
• Stepping down from Fathom March 18, 2019
• Moving from Go to PHP again February 4, 2019

2018

• Join me on Mastodon August 14, 2018
• Reviving Ana as Fathom: simple & transparent website analytics May 12, 2018
• Backtesting 12-month SMA investing strategy with Pandas January 24, 2018

2017

• Introducing HTML Forms for WordPress November 1, 2017
• Moving from PHP (Laravel) to Go April 17, 2017
• VATMOSS in practice April 3, 2017
• 2016 - year in review January 15, 2017

2016

• Browserpass for Firefox November 28, 2016
• Browserpass, a Chrome extension for Pass November 6, 2016

2015

• Celebrating 2 million downloads for Mailchimp for WordPress September 9, 2015
• Introducing ibericode June 19, 2015
• CDN URL rewriting plugin for WordPress May 22, 2015
• Interview on NomadList May 7, 2015
• Interview on WebWorkTravel March 13, 2015
• One million downloads (!!!) February 15, 2015

2014

• 2014 - year in review December 27, 2014
• Periodically check WordPress core for (malicious) modifications October 11, 2014
• Data type inconsistencies in WordPress October 2, 2014
• Multiple form themes in Mailchimp for WordPress Pro August 25, 2014
• A new site, built on Ghost August 23, 2014
• Version 2.0 of Mailchimp for WordPress April 30, 2014

2013

• Only load Contact Form 7 scripts when needed December 14, 2013
• 100.000 plugin downloads in under 6 months - Mailchimp for WordPress December 6, 2013
• Add plain HTML social sharing links to your posts December 2, 2013
• WordPress plugin structure, don't load unnecessary code November 20, 2013
• Delay scroll (and resize) handlers in JavaScript November 14, 2013
• Automatically add a Mailchimp sign-up form to all posts October 4, 2013
• Add a Mailchimp sign-up checkbox to Contact Form 7 September 25, 2013
• Show a Mailchimp sign-up checkbox in your checkout forms. September 12, 2013
• My newest WP plugin: Mailchimp for WordPress June 28, 2013
• Goals for 2013 January 2, 2013

2012

• AltoRouter, another PHP Routing class. July 31, 2012

2011

• PHP Routing Class which supports REST routing November 30, 2011
• Enabling shortcodes in widgets, quick WordPress tip. July 17, 2011
• Configuring Newsletter Sign-Up - the definitive guide July 3, 2011
• Dynamic custom menu's in WordPress June 19, 2011
• CodeIgniter Sessions in IE7 January 31, 2011

2010

• IE fix for HTML 5 elements December 29, 2010