Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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  • I love hill country and my heart aches for what’s happening to it right now. 💔

  • I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time kayaking to beat the heat lately. It’s a good way to beat the heat, and since our seasonal lot is on a lake I figure it’s a good way to get out of the house. It’s nice to go back to the camper afterward, clean up, change…

  • I’m really beginning to notice that using AI effectively is, itself, a skill. People always position it as a magic solution, but you can DEFINITELY tell when someone lazily copypasta’s an AI response vs using AI to help them cultivate a thoughtful reply.

  • Today was a big day for my agency. We closed a good-sized retainer with a client, and I never met the client myself. My salesperson worked the deal, another teammate handled the contract, and our ops system is handling the fulfillment. I’m so giddy I can hardly stand it! Curiously enough, it’s 1 year (to…

  • Rocking the OBX cup today

  • A Better Task Dispatch Integration

    I spent some time re-building the abstractions for background tasks in PHPNomad, but this time it’s through the lens of a Redis integration.

  • How are folks here rewarding repeat customers or partner referrals? I’ve been building systems that go past affiliate links, but I want to hear what’s working for you. Happy to swap notes if anyone’s deep in this.

  • I feel like I’ve been really re-discovering the ’80s. It was a great time for music.

  • Refactor WordPress integration to remove TaskScheduler in favor of new task system

    Summary The phpnomad/tasks package has been rewritten in v2.0.0 to introduce a modern, dependency-injection-friendly, platform-agnostic task system. This update deprecates the legacy TaskScheduler and CanScheduleTasks model and replaces it with a new, unified architecture centered around: This issue proposes refactoring the WordPress integration to fully adopt the new task system. Why The current WordPress integration…

  • I Released a 2.0.0 of PHPNomad Tasks

    Introduction This release introduces a new task system built on the unified TaskStrategy interface. The previous task execution model relied on CanScheduleTasks, which was tightly coupled to time-based, WordPress-style scheduling. It used string intervals and closures, and did not support modern queue systems or dependency injection. The new model introduces a clean, declarative, platform-agnostic task…