What Shipped This Week: SnipShare, WB Member Wiki, an Astro Store, and What’s Coming Next
It’s been one of those weeks where a lot of things that have been in progress for a while all came together at once. … Read more…
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Notes from inside the studio
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Monthly Reflection: What February Taught Me About Building Better Products
What I learned in February while building WP Vanguard: the assumption that kept slowing me down, shipping less but better, reading usage data carefully, saying …
WordPress Coding Standards: Why I Enforce WPCS on Every Project
How enforcing WPCS across 100+ WordPress plugins prevents security vulnerabilities, speeds up code review, and makes codebases maintainable for years. Practical…
Visual Regression Testing for WordPress – Why I Never Ship Without It
How I use BackstopJS and Playwright screenshots to catch visual bugs before they reach production. A practical guide to visual regression testing for WordPress …
The AI Backlash Is Coming and I Think That’s Healthy
I’ve spent the last two years deeply embedded in AI tooling, building with it, writing about why Claude Code stuck in my workflow, rethinking … Read more…
How I Use AI to Run Product, Strategy, and Execution While My Team Handles Development
I still have a team. Let me get that out of the way because the AI narrative these days makes it sound like everyone … Read more…
I Built an MCP Server That Migrates WordPress Sites to Astro – Here Is What I Learned
I have been building WordPress sites, plugins, and themes for over a decade. Our agency manages more than a dozen sites with thousands of … Read more…
The Hardest Part of Running a Dev Agency? Getting Your Team to Own Their Work
Half-cooked tasks, zero accountability, staff lacking confidence. An honest look at the daily struggles of building team ownership in a WordPress development ag…
Don’t Build What You Want, Build What the Market Needs: Lessons from Getting Stuck in a Niche
For a long time, I believed that building something you love was enough. I was wrong. This is what we learned the hard way about building what the market needs,…
I Built a WordPress Security Scanner. Today I Am Making It Public.
I have been building a WordPress security scanner for the past year. Today I am making it public. No plugin, no subscriptions, AI-powered explanations. Here is …
AI Will Not Kill Web Development Agencies – It Will Kill Bad Ones
An agency owner’s honest take on how AI is changing web development. The floor went up, the ceiling went up, and half-cooked work dies faster than ever. H…
When a Client Tried to Replace Us with AI
A client of six years wanted to test if AI could replace our dev team. Here is what actually happened over the three months that followed.…