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

  • WordPress isn’t dying. It’s disaggregating.

    The plugin sales data is real, but it’s being read as a market-death signal when it’s something else. Here’s the bet I’m making on what’s actually happening.

  • The MCP server is the new landing page.

    Product discovery is moving into Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. For a founder, an MCP server isn’t an integration anymore. It’s the first touchpoint.

  • The number of microservices I’ve spun up this year using PHPNomad is something to behold. I’ve really gotten into a groove with that system, and it’s just so, SO nice to have every single thing I build and manage using the exact same framework. It’s better to be consistent than great, and my biggest bottleneck…

  • At the campground today. Jazz music, lake view, ludicrously uncomfortable desk. Can’t lose.

  • I miss forum signatures

  • PHPnomad just got a CLI, and giving AI access to it has reduced my token usage CONSIDERABLY. Some actions are reduced by a factor of nearly 70!

  • Listen. You have ai access now. You officially have no reason to have a n insecure local network. You literally have an expert on the topic in your house, just one request away from telling you every problem with your local network security.

  • The water is like glass tonight

  • I swear if my coding companion goes away after April Fool’s Day because it’s an April Fools day prank, I’m going to be devastated

  • So, I’ve been working toward making Siren as both a WP plugin and a SaaS. That’s been built into the DNA of how it’s set up since the beginning. I’m finally starting to get to create a single set of front-end components that works both in WordPress and in the SaaS. Loving this.