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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Siren Affiliates

  • How I Multiply Myself Without Shipping Slop

    The content creation workflow I built so I could explain Siren without burning out. Voice profile, interview, multi-pass editing, customer avatar agents. No slop.

  • AI Doesn’t Have Perspective

    Detector tools didn’t catch my AI proposal. My client did. Here’s what your readers notice that the detectors miss, and how to fix it without bypass tricks.

  • AI Blindness Is the New Ad Blindness

    Most ‘how to make ChatGPT sound human’ advice is a magic prompt. It doesn’t work. Here’s why your readers can spot AI from across the room, and what actually fixes it.

  • An AI-enhanced workflow absolutely can multiply your work, but I’ve never been totally satisfied with a “one shot” of anything AI made when it’s actually something that I need to maintain. So much of my flow has begun to revolve around a lot of the things Chris Lema is talking about here.

  • How to Choose a WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin

    Most WooCommerce affiliate plugins share the same architecture. The architectural choice matters more than the plugin choice, and one option has no structural ceiling.

  • Solid Affiliate Review: A Polished Plugin Built For The Wrong Era

    A look at Solid Affiliate for WooCommerce: what the architecture can and can’t do, and what choosing it costs over the program’s lifetime.

  • Solid Affiliate WooCommerce Plugin Setup Guide

    What Solid Affiliate setup actually involves before you buy, including the the wizard, the post-wizard configuration, and how the same setup looks in a composition-based alternative.

  • This has been a pretty big time/money saver with PHPNomad. I set up a CLI that makes it possible to scaffold code that fits PHPNomad’s patterns quickly. With it, I’m able to establish patterns in projects and save the patterns as JSON files in my PHPNomad projects so AI can leverage them when it needs…

  • The gravity of your hometown will always give you reasons to stay home. Sometimes that gravity is strong, and sometimes it will weaken. When it’s weak, leave. Travel. See things. You can always come back, but the opportunity is always a fleeting thing. When we traveled in our camper, we left my kids were 1…

  • I took my boys fishin’ yesterday, and it was a huge hit! We caught lots of fish, and even cleaned ‘em up and made dinner over the campfire. Not all days at the campground feel distinctively “camping” but last night felt pretty old skool, and we had a blast.