The tools I bought in 2025 and actually still use
An honest year-in-review of paid software. What I subscribed to in 2025, what survived to 2026, what I canceled, and the dollar amounts behind each.
Notes on web design, development, and content
Marin Holvers is the senior editor at Pivot. With a background in PHP development and a soft spot for the early-2000s era of dynamic publishing tools, he writes about web design, content strategy, and the craft of building independent websites that last. When he isn’t editing, he’s usually breaking and re-fixing his personal blog.
An honest year-in-review of paid software. What I subscribed to in 2025, what survived to 2026, what I canceled, and the dollar amounts behind each.
I tracked my own time across about three months of blog posts. The honest number is way more than people admit, and most of it isn't typing.
Showing everything at once feels generous. It usually isn't. A short defense of progressive disclosure, with examples from Linear, Stripe, and a contact form I redesigned last month.
Not a listicle, not a hot take. Just the three boring tactics that grew my organic traffic by roughly 38% in four months in 2025, and the ones that didn't.
After 24 years of building websites, I keep going back to vanilla PHP for small jobs. Here is when that is the right call, and when it absolutely is not.
A poorly-designed website leaves a bad taste in the mouths of prospective customers. To turn one-time visitors of your homepage into regular users who interact with your content and explore
John Allsopp is considered to be one of the most prominent foretellers nowadays. He is the author of the widely used term in today’s world – “Web 2.0”. He is
One of the biggest mistakes one can make when working on their website is thinking about user interface as about the bunch of pixels and buttons. The user interface (or
Do you have an idea worth developing? Then this article is for you! With the help of the tools and services described here you will be able to launch a
Web development and design are two great skills that open lots of doors and provide you with lots of opportunities. Being a pro in these two worlds, you will be