I write about open source, WordPress, community building, AI, and whatever else is on my mind. I prefer long form over punchy takes — if I'm writing something down, it's because I think it's worth more than a sentence.
I’m a tiny bit obsessed with iterating my site to agenty-ready and web-optimized perfection. That’s why I’ve spent many sessions running my site against specification.website‘s checklist and fixing what it…
A conversation about why WordPress core still ships so few AI abilities and the limitations they have got me thinking: why am I making my site fully dependent on Abilities…
A real example of hidden instructions embedded in a product’s website, why the same risk shows up in AI agent skills and hooks more broadly, and a free scanner worth knowing about before installing one.
When I first built this site, I invested a lot of time in getting it up and running. I figured that would be more or less it for a while,…
Overview This was a week where MCP became something WordPress products are actually shipping. Two AI plugin versions landed in under two weeks, the MCP Adapter got a significant architectural…
EmDash forced a hard look at WordPress’s architecture, ACF shipped Abilities API support, WordPress 7.0 is delayed again, and the MCP ecosystem keeps growing. A double issue catching up after Passover.
I gave this talk at WordCamp Asia 2026. The topic is something I’ve been thinking about: why WordPress’s history of open extensibility is actually a structural advantage in the AI era, not just a nostalgic footnote.
Claude can create diagrams, comparison graphics, interactive charts, and more — all as HTML you can screenshot or embed directly in WordPress. Here’s how to prompt it well, what to expect, and a trick for precise browser screenshots most people don’t know about.
Cloudflare’s EmDash CMS for Astro has some architectural advantages over WordPress. But for the people who actually need to build and run websites, architecture alone isn’t enough.
This covers everything from the initial design brief and static prototyping to converting the site into a custom WordPress theme, optimizing for accessibility, and leveraging native WordPress features for a clean, high-performance result.