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jlahijani··on How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
!!! WOW !!!
jlahijani··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
A little utility for Windows called TaskbarIconOverlay that puts a custom icon on top of a taskbar item. I have many VSCodes running at once and it's hard to tell which is which: https://github.com/jlahijani/TaskbarIconOverlay
jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

Willing to relocate: No

Location: Los Angeles, California

Website: https://jonathanlahijani.com/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

I'm a contract (1099) full-stack web application developer with over 20 years experience and work with many medium-sized companies. My latest project is a custom order and production management system for a print-on-demand company in Los Angeles which took over a year to build (it's extremely complex). It handles thousands of orders per day across multiple factories and used by hundreds of employees and manages over 100 different product types each with unique graphical requirements.

I work mainly with PHP/MariaDB/Laravel/ProcessWire and I am experienced in all areas of development including developing REST APIs, system administration and much more.

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Remote Only

I've been an independent contractor for 20 years and have also developed and run an ecommerce website in the computer hardware space from 2016-2022.

I specialize in the following:

- Bespoke ecommerce websites (especially those with complex product-types)

- Order management systems: I've spent the last 1.5 years creating a custom order and production system for a large print-on-demand fulfiller. It handles everything from order intake via a REST API, creation of gang-sheets and special layouts across a variety of products, shipment and much more.

- Complex CMS websites for large organizations

I often use the following technologies: ProcessWire, Laravel, Rails, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, HTMX

Website: jonathanlahijani.com

Email: jlahijani at gmail dot com

Phone: 31zero-Seven70-887two

jlahijani··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I'm working on an order and production management system for a company that fulfills orders for print-on-demand ecommerce sites. It handles things like graphics manipulation, imposition layouts (gang sheets), cutlines, printing, order batching and tracking during the production and fulfillment stages (barcodes) and everything necessary from what an order is received via API to when it is shipped.
jlahijani··on Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
I've used XYplorer daily since 2008. It's a fantastic piece of software and updated all the time. Wish there were something comparable in Linux.
jlahijani··on WordPress Alternatives
+999 for ProcessWire. It's my CMS of choice for 10 years straight and is actually a pretty good platform for web applications as well (with some limitations compared to something like Rails or Laravel since configuration is stored in the database).

I made this 36-part video series comparing WordPress to ProcessWire which I recorded on-and-off between 2014-2018 and released it that year. Although that was a while ago, it's still mostly accurate since both systems are mature and haven't changed drastically in that time (this is before Gutenberg): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrdUWNK38ibz8U_5Vq4z...

Also worth a read: https://processwire.com/about/wordpress-vs-processwire/

For the JS devs, ProcessWire has a similar approach to Payload CMS from what I've seen (although ProcessWire dates back to 2003 and open-sourced in ~2010/11).

Best CMS ever. :)

jlahijani··on Modern WordPress – Yikes
Throwing my recommendation for ProcessWire CMS. I switched to it 10 years ago and made a YouTube series around that time that compares it to WordPress. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrdUWNK38ibz8U_5Vq4z...
jlahijani··on Airtable acquires Airplane
Xano
jlahijani··on Acquia, my Drupal startup
ProcessWire CMS. Developer oriented but amazing for clients once set up. Been using it for 10 years straight.
jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) and bespoke ecommerce where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Hyperscript, Tailwind CSS are some of my favorite tools. Website: https://jonlahi.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlahijani/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) and bespoke ecommerce where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Hyperscript, Tailwind CSS are some of my favorite tools.

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlahijani/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA

I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) and bespoke ecommerce where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Hyperscript, Tailwind CSS are some of my favorite tools.

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlahijani/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA

I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) and bespoke ecommerce where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Hyperscript, Tailwind CSS are some of my favorite tools.

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlahijani/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA

I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) and bespoke ecommerce where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Hyperscript, Tailwind CSS are some of my favorite tools.

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA

I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I work mainly in PHP and more server-side based solutions (HTMX, not React). I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I work mainly in PHP and more server-side based solutions (HTMX, not React). I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data). HTMX, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA

I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I work mainly in PHP and more server-side based solutions (HTMX, not React). I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data).

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Los Angeles, CA

I am an independent web developer (since 2005) that specializes in complex CMS-based websites (ProcessWire / Drupal / WordPress) where end-clients need to be able to effortlessly manage the content. I work mainly in PHP and more server-side based solutions (HTMX, not React). I do a lot of website re-development (ie, sites that have fallen into disrepair and need a fresh start with existing data).

Website: https://jonlahi.com/

Email: (myusername)@gmail.com

jlahijani··on Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
Xyplorer - File Manager replacement for Windows (using everyday since ~2008)
jlahijani··on Bullshit.js
https://www.pandadoc.com/
jlahijani··on Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
UIkit (https://getuikit.com/). It's also vanilla JS and has many more useful components that Bootstrap.
jlahijani··on Make Your MacBook Pro, Again
The ethernet port seems a bit close to the 2 USB Type-C ports. I wonder if the USB Type-C ports will still be able to support a flash drive (the thicker ones anyway) while being wired in.
jlahijani··on Drupal 8.0.0 released
May I suggest taking a strong look at ProcessWire? You only need to deal with fields, templates and pages and all content is in a simple to understand tree hierarchy. I switched to it from WordPress 2.5 years ago and haven't looked back. Great developer community as well.
jlahijani··on Ask HN: Why has nobody built a better Wordpress?
ProcessWire: http://processwire.com/
jlahijani··on Screenshot Saturday
Continuing to work on my bookmarking / high performance link management and archiving system called Metamarks. Will be done in ~2 months.

http://imgur.com/ihULyxb

higher res: http://jonathanlahijani.com/metamarks/metamarks_screenshot_0...

jlahijani··on Ask HN: what chair are you using for coding and how comfortable is it?
Diffrient World Chair. Very comfortable according to me and my friends.