WP-CLI for People Who Avoid the Terminal
A practical wp-cli guide for developers who avoid the terminal: the 12 commands that matter, search-replace gotchas with Elementor JSON, aliases and real
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Field notes on the modern web
WordPress, HTML templates, forms and webhooks, and the AI tools actually worth your time. Written by the team behind Canvas, the best selling HTML template on ThemeForest.
From Prototype to Production: Shipping an AI Feature Users Trust
A practitioner’s guide to ship an AI feature users trust: eval harnesses, pinned model snapshots, latency budgets, shadow rollouts and honest abstention.
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The 404, the 500 and the Empty State: Designing for Failure
A practitioner’s guide to 404 page design, 500 pages and empty state design: real status codes, static fallbacks, caching headers and how to test failure
13 min read
WordPress Cron Is Not Cron: Fixing Scheduled Tasks
Why wp cron misses scheduled tasks, how to disable wp cron safely, and the WP-CLI crontab setup, retry handling and monitoring we use on client sites.
12 min read
One-Page vs Multi-Page Websites: SEO and UX Trade-offs
One page website SEO has hard structural limits: one title tag, no internal links, unindexable anchors. When single page beats multi page, and how to split
14 min read
How to Evaluate an HTML Template Before You Build Your Business On It
A practitioner’s one-hour process to evaluate an HTML template before you build on it: payload checks, dependency audits, keyboard tests and licensing traps.
13 min read
Vector Databases: Do You Need One, and Which Kind
Do you need a vector database in 2026? A practitioner’s guide to pgvector vs Pinecone, embeddings storage costs, HNSW tuning, filtering and hybrid search.
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Zapier, Make and Custom Code: Choosing an Automation Layer
Zapier vs Make vs custom code in 2026: real pricing math, polling limits, error handling, and the hybrid pattern we ship on client automation layers.
12 min read
Webhooks Explained: What They Are and When to Use One Instead of an API
Webhooks explained by developers who ship them: what is a webhook, webhook vs API, signature verification, idempotency, retries and when polling still wins.
12 min read
Browser AI: On-Device Models and What They Unlock
A practitioner’s guide to browser AI in 2026: Chrome’s built-in APIs vs WebGPU with transformers.js, real model sizes, cold start budgets and fallback
12 min read
Guardrails for Customer-Facing AI: Hallucination, Tone and Escalation
A practitioner’s guide to AI guardrails for customer-facing bots: verify citations to prevent hallucination, lint tone in code, and build escalation that
13 min read
Queues for Webhook Processing: Why You Should Not Do Work Inline
Why inline webhook handlers break under load, and how to build a webhook queue with Postgres SKIP LOCKED, idempotency keys, backoff and dead letter handling.
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