I'm Ryan Hellyer, a Kiwi living in Berlin. Capturing stories between commits and building open-source tools for the web.
Thoughts, travels, and photography from my personal archive.
Plugins, tools, and scripts I've built for the web community.
A lightweight plugin to remove WordPress emoji bloat from your frontend output, improving site performance. Active on 60,000+ sites.
A WordPress plugin that adds the ability to use unique custom headers on individual pages, posts, or categories. Active on 20,000+ sites and translated into 8 languages.
Monitor your Laravel application's real-world performance with a beautiful dashboard. Track response times, throughput, and queue health.
A Laravel-style caching library for WordPress, featuring clean architecture, stale-while-revalidate, and smart dependency injection.
Git for lazy people. A commit tool that automatically stages changes, generates AI commit messages via an API at ai.hellyer.kiwi, and pushes to remote.
A link protector that wraps URLs behind a JavaScript challenge. Share Discord, Telegram, or any link publicly — bots can't run JS, so only real humans get through.
Technical deep dives, architectural thoughts, and development processes.
Rewrote git meh from Bash to Go. Retry logic, diff truncation, inline editing, cross-platform builds, and lessons learned along the way. Free API included.
How I rebuilt my personal site by moving from WordPress to a high-performance headless WordPress and Laravel architecture, merging three blogs into one.
After 14 years and 20,000+ active sites, the Unique Headers WordPress plugin finally got the modernisation it deserved. Here’s what changed.
StaleCache 1.1 brings a cleaner architecture and easier testing to this Laravel-style caching library for WordPress — with fewer static methods and smarter dependency injection.
I'm a Kiwi currently living in Berlin. My career started in science, but my obsession with code led me down the path of software engineering. Today, I split my time between building tools for the web and capturing the world through photography.
This website serves as a unified hub for my life. The personal journal holds my photos, videos, and stories. The project showcase and geek blog outline my technical depth, open-source contributions, and thoughts on software architecture. I also have a keen interest in psychedelics and how they shape our minds.
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