BuddyNext 1.0.8: The Release Where I Stopped Adding Features
262 commits, and most of them are invisible. Why 1.0.8 is the BuddyNext release I am proudest of: scale that holds, moderation that does not punish good members…
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Eventonomy for Developers: Custom Tables, a 100% REST API, and Seams All the Way Down
Eventonomy is a platform you build on, not a closed box. A developer’s tour of the events plugin I built on custom tables: the eventonomy/v1 REST API, the…
The Complete Picture of BuddyNext: WordPress’s Community Layer, and How Fast It Keeps Growing
I rebuilt community for WordPress from scratch, and the part I did not fully expect is how fast it compounds. Instead of another changelog, here is the whole of…
Learnomy for Developers: The Hooks, REST API, and Extension Seams Behind 1.4.0
Learnomy is a platform you build on, not a closed box. A developer’s tour of what 1.4.0 opens up: the question-type registry, the content-standards bridge…
Shipping Jetonomy for iOS: a native app for your WordPress community
How I built and shipped Jetonomy, a native iOS app that takes any Jetonomy-powered WordPress community mobile: the stack, WordPress Application Passwords auth, …
The complete WordPress platform I wish I had built on ten years ago
A decade of addons taught me I was building pieces of one platform. Here is what that platform looks like now: community in Jetonomy, media in MediaVerse, learn…
I spent a decade inside BuddyPress. Here is why I built BuddyNext.
After more than 60 BuddyPress addons and two community themes, I rebuilt community for WordPress from scratch. This is the honest story of why, and what it took…
Scale Is the Feature: Why I Built Learnomy
A founder note on the bet behind Learnomy. Most WordPress LMS plugins demo beautifully and break the moment your academy grows, because they are built on the wr…
The Token Bill Comes Due: LLM Cost Guardrails Every Founder Needs
The industry shifted from tokenmaxxing to CFO scrutiny. Anthropic at $47B annualized, a CLI tool claiming 91.8% token savings, and a developer cutting Claude Co…
Ships Are Cheap, Harbors Are Not: Why Distribution Is the Only Moat Left
AI collapsed the cost of building software to near zero. It did not collapse the cost of reaching customers. A decision framework for founders on which distribu…
Anthropic at $47B ARR and Still Blocked From the S&P: What the AI IPO Wave Means for Small Founders
Anthropic hit $47B annualized revenue in May 2026, up from $9B at end of 2025. The S&P 500 still won’t fast-track them in because of a profitability …
The Economics of Running an AI-First WordPress Agency
How AI changed our agency P&L line by line: revenue model shifts, API costs, margin math, and what to reinvest when gross margin jumps from 12% to 66%.…