Notes from running the fleet
Security research, WordPress internals and the tooling behind Anchor. Written while doing the work, not after.
Grok Bot patches broken websites while I sleep.
I gave a Grok Bot SSH, a checklist and a 30-minute routine. In eight days it patched a dozen live websites, cleaned one crash-prone plugin off 586 environments, and replaced my security alert emails.
Read the post →Opus 5.5 changed everything again.
The first week of Opus 5.5 I made four games, ported one to the Game Boy Color and started a music engine, all on…
Cloudflare blocked PHP2Shell before PHP shipped a patch.
PHP2Shell hit PHP itself this week. Every Anchor Hosting site sat behind Cloudflare's WAF rules before the bugs went public, and every site is…
Grok Bot found malware on WP.org during a routine check.
Within Grok Bot I have a bot dedicated for WP Beacon. After two weeks of daily checks it pinged me while I was working.…
No web host tested the next WordPress core.
WordPress 7.1 plus WP Rocket plus Elementor Pro took 37% of our WP Rocket sites down. Core was fine. The combination was not. Hosts…
How I uncovered an unauthenticated Elementor Pro RCE for a record Wordfence bounty
How directing AI (not being a career bounty hunter) produced an unauthenticated Elementor Pro RCE, a $15,600 Wordfence bounty, and a new chain-hunting skill…
What visibility do you have when releasing a plugin directly on GitHub?
I ship side projects on GitHub instead of WordPress.org. Here is what stars, release asset downloads, and a tiny local dashboard can tell you…
Gutenberg is huge for a reason. That does not mean every editor has to be.
Classic Editor still holds millions of installs. The block editor is a multi-megabyte platform. Minn Admin stores the same Gutenberg markup from a single…
3 Failed WP-Admin Projects, Let’s go for the 4th!
Two weeks ago I replaced /wp-admin/ on my own WordPress sites with /minn-admin/. This is my fourth attempt at building a WordPress backend replacement.…
Grok Build finally made my AI email triage a real workflow
process-emails drains noise. draft-email writes replies. /email-worker plus Grok Build todos is the first time hammering the customer queue felt as fast as the…