Jisse Reitsma - August 9, 2022

Some parts of Magento 2 are oriented towards flexibility, others seem to have been designed to cause headaches. One of those areas that causes me to frown is the Magento 2 robots router. Here's why.

Jisse Reitsma - July 30, 2022

I've been eager to pick up on a specific problem that all agencies face: How to get new developers? Many years ago, I organized a summercamp with weeks on a row dedicated to train new developers. And I'm happy to announce that in Q1/Q2 2023 I'm going to do this again: Yireo Academy 2023.

Jisse Reitsma - July 21, 2022

Vue Storefront has been around quite a bit: Its first public releases (version 1) dates back to 2017 and it had an integration for Magento 1 and Magento 2. However, the architecture of VSF1 was lacking. But now the wait for something better is over: The VSF2 integration with Magento 2 is there. And it looks very promising.

Jisse Reitsma - July 17, 2022

If you are creating open source PHP packages, distributed via composer, it is nice to know their popularity. For this, the Packagist statistics could be used ... a bit. This blog rambles on about how these stats could be misleading.

Jisse Reitsma - June 30, 2022

Even though the title might be a bit click-bait-ish, I'm quite serious about this: Shopware PWA is a great solution that I'm personally fond of. But is it promoted in the right way? Does its messaging reach the right goals and the right audience?

Jisse Reitsma - June 23, 2022

It is a change I already made quite some time ago - somewhere in May - but here is the official announcement: The last of the commercial Yireo extensions - Yireo_EmailTester2 - is now available for free. Here is how and why.

Jisse Reitsma - June 21, 2022

I almost feel like a douchebag posting this. But the reason comes not from a monetary need, but from repeated requests by fellow developers in the Magento community that were wondering how they can give back something to me. So here it is: You can sponsor me. If you want. Via GitHub Sponsors or alternative means. If you want.

Jisse Reitsma - June 12, 2022

Hyvä is great. By default, it gives you an excellent Lighthouse score. But when building real-life shops, it is easy to add additional features to the plain Hyvä setup, which causes the score to drop. Here is a list of potential things you can do to destroy the default performance gain that Hyvä gives you.

Jisse Reitsma - May 30, 2022

Slowly we have been expanding our On-Demand training portfolio and in the middle of all these offerings is the Yireo Courseware Portal: Because it's setup is a nice example of how to build a SaaS relying on Magento plus microservices, here's a peek in the kitchen.

Jisse Reitsma - May 22, 2022

Here is a top 3 mistakes you can make as a marketeer in the tech world. A bonus tip here is to keep the title phrased exactly as-is in the intro text. That's just a dumb copy-and-paste and it shows a lack of interest.

Jisse Reitsma - May 9, 2022

A common belief amongst Magento developers is that adding a new column to a large database table will cause the Magento setup upgrade scripts to run for a long time, thus causing downtime. I thought this as well in the past. But is this so? As far as I can see, things are different today.

Jisse Reitsma - May 2, 2022

When learning to build modules on top of Magento 2 (v2.0.0 alpha 42 or so), I learned one thing: Do not hack the database. At least, that's what I thought would always be the correct thing to do. But nowadays, I'm undergoing a mind shift. Is it ok to modify the Magento core database tables anyway?