Should You Let AI Crawlers In, Block Them, or Charge Them?
For small content sites: let search and answer crawlers in, think harder about training bots, and treat charging as an experiment. Here is the reasoning.…
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How We Update Five Live Sites Without Breaking Them
How we update five live sites without breaking them: a fixed order, a restore point at every step, and an automatic gate, shown with our EmDash 1.1.0 upgrade.…
Can AI Replace a Website Maintenance Retainer?
Can AI replace a website maintenance retainer? What our agents handle across WordPress, Astro, EmDash and Laravel, and what still needs a person.…
26 Releases in Four Days: What Our Release Gates Caught
How a small team and AI agents shipped 26 release packages in four days, which release gates caught real bugs, and which problems still got through.…
Should You Submit a Plugin to WordPress.org in 2026? A Complete Guide
Should a new plugin vendor still submit to WordPress.org in 2026? The queue numbers, the Free and Pro rules, the security gate on every release, and how we run …
The Claude Code Skills Library That Runs Our Agency
A department-by-department tour of the Claude Code skills library we run our agency on: what each skill does, what still needs a person, and how we keep it gove…
Don’t Marry a Plugin or Theme: Start From Your Business Flow
Stop bending your business to fit a plugin or theme. Map your flow first, use proven products for generic parts, and hire a developer for the gaps and your edge…
From Proposal to Delivery: The MCP Servers That Run Our Agency
One client project followed from proposal to final delivery, with the Claude Code MCP servers and skills we use at each of ten stages, what each replaced, and t…
We Moved Five WordPress Sites to EmDash the Week 1.0 Shipped
Five of our WordPress content sites now run on EmDash 1.0.1. Here is what the move took, what the upgrade broke, how read replication fixed it, and which sites …
Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor: What We Actually Run, and Why
The honest answer to the codex vs claude code question is not a single winner, and that is the first thing most comparisons get … Read more…
The Week AI Coding Agents Grew Up, and the Accountability Bill Arrived
Two things happened in the world of AI coding agents in the same week, and reading them side by side tells you more than … Read more…
Who Owns It at 3am: The Real Line Between Vibe Coding and Engineering
There is a fight running through the developer world right now, and on the surface it looks like a fight about tools. One camp … Read more…