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

    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.

    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.

  • Alex Standiford

    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 right now is reviewing code. I can review and identify code smells so much faster with PHPNomad because I know just from a glance when something isn’t built using the patterns it should be built using.

    Plus the CLI I buit for it scaffolds most of the code when we’re building greenfield projects, and that saves a ton of tokens when building.

    I love it.

  • Alex Standiford

    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.

  • Alex Standiford

    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

  • Alex Standiford

    A fun side effect of AI has been that I’ve gotten a lot better at local networking because of it. I’m doing things with my local network that I never in 1 million years would have had time to figure out in the past.

  • Alex Standiford

    My biggest takeaway to the release of Emdash is that WordPress needs to start taking headless a lot more seriously. It’s API surface and even a potential GraphQL surface would really benefit from a polish, but also the ability to set it up in a next JS stack easily, perhaps with Docker or something.

  • Alex Standiford

    Y’all, for 3 years it’s been the same seesaw:

    Anthropic comes out with the best model on the market

    Everyone rushes to Claude

    Anthropic pushes usage limits usage too far

    OpenAI comes out with a model that’s 90% of Claude’s model with fewer limits

    Everyone runs to OpenAI

    Repeat.

  • Alex Standiford

    Claude, please shift the tasks you just added to Todoist over by one day.

    Claude:

    “Devised straightforward temporal adjustment strategy”

    Whoa, easy there. We’re shifting dates, not adjusting our time machine.

  • Alex Standiford

    “No em dashes” is not the right way to put it. “Structure your sentences so they don’t require em-dashes” yields a much better result. I find that the problem isn’t the em-dashes as much as the overly complex sentence structures.

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

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