What Is Web Application Development?
A plain-English explainer of web application development: web apps, websites, databases, workflows, WordPress, custom apps, tools, and testing.
Modern tools. Old-stack common sense.
A plain-English explainer of web application development: web apps, websites, databases, workflows, WordPress, custom apps, tools, and testing.
A practical old-stack-friendly guide to building a web app: workflow, database, forms, permissions, admin pages, emails, logs, backups, and testing.
A plain-English explanation of the LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL or MariaDB, and PHP, and why it still works for small web projects.
Old stack means practical, mature web tools that are easy to host, debug, maintain, and explain to AI coding assistants.
AI-assisted development adds a new cost to tech choices: how much context, correction, and retrying your stack needs before it works.
Week 4 of EVE Profit Routes adds navigation, About, How-To, and update pages so the app can explain itself, build trust, and feel more complete.
I rebuilt Automation Receipts around Tabler so every new page didn’t become another custom CSS decision, while keeping the PHP/MySQL app simple.
A webhook is easy. The harder part is turning automation runs into readable receipts so someone can understand what happened without digging through old logs.
Week 3 of EVE Profit Routes improves the route controls, adding sortable tables, clearer filters, and UI changes that make hauling decisions easier.
Codex makes old-school web development feel fresh again by helping with real code, small fixes, repo context, and practical solo builder workflows.