Hey. I'm Richard, but most people call me Pretzel. I'm a full-stack developer primarily working in PHP, C# and JavaScript. Since 2017 I've been doing this as freelancer.
In my spare time I build things occasionally. Whenever inspiration strikes. Every now and then I build projects that are cool in some way.
Sometimes I also write stuff. Short-form content usually ends up on Twitter. For long-form content you can check out my posts below!
How we made $2,500 by playing Animal Crossing
17th June 2021
Selling one-time purchase products with Paddle
12th February 2021
Build your own PSR-4 autoloader
26th January 2021
Establishing a base for the future
25th January 2021
Build a Telegram bot in PHP
19th January 2021
Restarting the blog
12th January 2021
Au Revoir: The End of Notebag
27th October 2020
Scratching my own itch: Building Notebag
2nd May 2020
Managing WordPress from your terminal
29th January 2019
Live streaming as productivity multiplier
20th January 2019
Breaking the rules to keep programming fun and experimental
15th January 2019
Building responsive email with MJML
14th January 2019
My approach to mentoring junior team members
12th January 2019
How I got into freelancing
9th January 2019
Releasing jinx - a magical wrapper around nginx
7th January 2019
Bringing your entire infrastructure down using Caddy
5th January 2019
Parsing command-line arguments and flags
4th January 2019
Non-obvious behaviors of shell syntax
3rd January 2019
Coloring text in your terminal
2nd January 2019