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Delicious Brains
Company blog · deliciousbrains.com · on HN as bradtprogrammingwebbusiness
Delicious Brains is the company blog at deliciousbrains.com, writing about programming, web and business. Since 2015, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this WordPress-focused blog for practical guides, such as setting up a local SSL certificate authority for localhost, and for Varnish vs Nginx page-caching comparisons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Our plugins include WP Migrate DB Pro, WP Offload Media, and WP Offload SES. We also offer a modern, cloud-based server control panel we call SpinupWP.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-01-14
- Vue vs. React: Battle of the JavaScript Frameworks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-19
- How to Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-07
- Delicious Brains Has Acquired Wordpress Plugin Advanced Custom Fields2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-03
- Scaling Laravel Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk Part 1: Setting Up Laravel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-26
What Hacker News says?
While the tool been showcased here is great, there's really no substitute for doing it yourself and getting your hands dirty. Too many people (not saying you) use these kinds of tools as a crutch instead of learning the basics themselves. This is a great guide on how to set up SSL on localhost https://deliciousbrains.com/ssl-certificate-authority-for-lo...
Comment linking /ssl-certificate-authority-for-local-https-development/
on “Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost”Submitted Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress? as a story · 237 points
HN discussionBiggest lesson I learnt was when talking to a dev guy I know about MigrateDBPro[1]. For those who don't know it, it lets you push / pull WordPress sites really easily - local to staging, staging to live, live to staging. It handles media files, database, and it's really solid. Anyway. I explained it to him and he simply didn't get it. He was like "yeh, but I can do that by dumping the SQL from the live site then imp…
Comment linking /wp-migrate-db-pro/
on “I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time”Submitted How Spam Filtering Works: From SPF to DKIM to Blacklists as a story · 143 points
HN discussion> WP Engine seems like it is entirely a mercenary operation. WP Engine also acquired and maintains Advanced Custom Fields [1] and Local [2] from their subsidiary Flywheel [3]. [1] https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-engine-acquisition/ [2] https://wpengine.com/blog/better-together-wp-engine-and-flyw... [3] https://wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-to-acquire-flywheel/
Comment linking /wp-engine-acquisition/
on “I Stayed”Submitted Struggles Developing a Commercial WordPress Plugin as a story · 25 points
HN discussionNot sure if the performance gains are still valid. There's reports that state the contrary: https://deliciousbrains.com/page-caching-varnish-vs-nginx-fa... Nginx has something similar to ESI called SSI ( http://serverfault.com/questions/406103/main-differences-bet... )
Comment linking /page-caching-varnish-vs-nginx-fastcgi-cache/
on “Varnish Cache 5.0”Submitted Show HN: WP Offload S3 – Offload Your Assets to S3 and Cloudfront as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Laravel Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk Part 1: Setting Up Laravel as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using React and Laravel Lumen to Build a Company Status Board as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Distributed Company’s First In-Person Meeting as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delicious Brains Has Acquired Wordpress Plugin Advanced Custom Fields as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SES vs. Mailgun vs. SendGrid: A Look at WordPress Transactional Email Options as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey WordPress plugin developers, stop supporting legacy PHP versions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running WordPress in a Kubernetes Cluster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Setup HTTPS Locally Without Getting Annoying Browser Privacy Errors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serving assets from S3 may hurt performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a WordPress Plugin with Cursor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Ways to Encrypt Passwords, Keys, & More with PHP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of the WordPress Block Editor for Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delicious Brains Acquires Advanced Custom Fields as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Much Do WordPress Developers Earn? That and More in Our Industry Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting into Go for PHP developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Devilbox for Local WordPress Development in Docker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Laravel Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vue vs. React: Battle of the JavaScript Frameworks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vue vs. React: Battle of the JavaScript Frameworks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Setup HTTPS Locally Without Getting Annoying Browser Privacy Errors as a story · 1 points
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