What just happened? I started my Monday by upgrading my Claude Code account from the $20 to $100/month plan. By Tuesday, I was running it through 3 massive roadmaps. One roadmap for decoupling the Minnow Framework from WordPress while still maintaining database compatibility. Another roadmap for a plugin analyzer tool. And yet another roadmap…
“It all starts with writing.” That single phase has stuck with me since I first heard it from Sean McCabe. It doesn’t matter what you want to create. Whether it’s writing a book, making a movie, making an application, making a podcast… it really does all start with writing. The history of my writing…
If you’re a developer and haven’t yet used AI to build stuff for yourself, then take a weekend and give it a try. We are entering an age of personally generated applications. It’s truly amazing what you can build using the latest generation of AI models. Why use Trello when you could generate a…
This post is the second part of a series called “Experimenting with WordPress” What is WordPress really? Well, in terms of code, it’s simply a collection of ~3924 anonymous PHP functions, ~389 classes, and some polyfills. While there are some code patterns, the codebase is messy. Want an activity for the day? I challenge…
A common feature of managed WordPress hosts is an easy one click deploy to a staging environment. These deployment features are well used. On occasion I’ll have my own customers reach out because they want to clone an existing websites but keep the current production and staging environments as-is. That’s easy, right? I’ll start…
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I really enjoy making things. At the beginning of summer, I accidentally made a new CLI while talking with Google Gemini. I initially used Google Gemini to improve a few bash scripts I wrote 8 years ago. The results were pretty great. Then I had the…
AI is here to stay, and the ways that developers make applications are forever changing. There is no return to human-only coding. Moving forward, I’m convinced that the vast majority of code will be generated and not written. This transition is happening sooner than most people think. Developers, your workflow is about to change…
Have you ever had an issue with an individual WordPress page or post that required the use of a staging site? I’ve previously explored troubleshooting directly on the production site with WP Freighter and WP Shipyard. Today, we’ll look at a new way of troubleshooting plugin issues using WP-CLI. Render Command is a WordPress…
Two week ago, Google released their newest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental. This caught my eye for two reasons (🧠 + 💵). First, it’s the most advanced coding model I’ve seen. Second, it’s currently free to use! I don’t know what Google is thinking by releasing an advanced coding model for free. I…
I know there are plugins for offloading WordPress uploads to bucket storage like WP Offload Media or Infinite Uploads. However, I recently wondered if anyone tried using Rclone and Nginx rules. This weekend I decided to play around with that idea. It seems too simple. Maybe I’m missing something? I’m not an expert when…