Hi, I’m Trish Gill

Five years ago I traded my chef’s knife for a keyboard and walked into my first dev job as an intern, armed with a love of building things.

I’m still at the same company, and somewhere along the way I became the Jill of all trades: building features in Laravel and Next.js, wrangling WordPress (headless and traditional), cleaning up compromised sites, managing servers on AWS and Forge, setting up analytics and tracking, and plugging in just about every third-party API you can think of.

Most tech writing assumes you already know what you’re doing. This blog doesn’t. Every post starts with the plain-English version, explains why it matters on a real job, and walks you through it step by step, including the parts that can go wrong.

If you’re just starting out, or you’ve just been handed something at work you’ve never touched before, you’re in the right place.