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Rebuilding the Magento Developer Documentation from the Ground Up
We took over the Magento Association developer documentation project and are actively rebuilding it — 25 guides, 47 module references, 5 learning paths, and a full documentation site. Here's what we're building and why.
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Open-Sourcing Our Composer Vendor Checker
We built a Composer plugin to audit 30+ vendor modules during a Magento 2.4.5 to 2.4.8 upgrade. It worked well enough to clean up, harden, and put on Packagist. Here is what it does and why we built it.
Chill Your Beans: Our Hyvä Build on the Free License
We built chillyourbeans.co.uk as a full Hyvä storefront using the free license. Here's what the free tier gives you and what we built with it.
Hyvä's Free License: Building "Chill Your Beans" Coffee Site
Hyvä now has a free license, and we're using it to build a coffee e-commerce site. Here's what we're learning.
Building a Magento Debug Module That Actually Helps
How we built a debug module with extensive logging that helps us find problems faster and get to solutions without pulling our hair out.