Website Maintenance Cost: What I Charge For, and What I Don't
I don't sell monthly update retainers for brochure websites. I charge for maintenance where downtime costs money: stores, integrations, custom logic.
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Where AI Agents Perform: Laravel vs WordPress vs Astro
Same AI agents, three stacks, different results. What matters is how much of the system is visible from the repo and how cheap verification is - not training data.
Business Website Readiness: A Practical Decision Test
A business website is worth building when it reduces repeated sales friction, owns discovery, and gives clients a reliable next step before they call.
WordPress vs the World: Why the Dichotomy Survives AI
Stack-switching is cheaper than ever, yet WordPress is still set against the rest of the CMS world. This isn't really about code - it's about who owns the publishing workflow.
Laravel vs WordPress for a transactional ledger app
Why I chose Laravel over WordPress for a small internal tracker: the shape of the data, integrity requirements, and operational workflows mattered more than framework preference.
When an AI Vendor Cuts You Off: A Stack Risk Lesson
Anthropic pulled its newest models worldwide after a US government directive targeted foreign nationals. The stack lesson: model access is a revocable dependency.
Headless WooCommerce Coupon Sales Across Two Stores
A headless WooCommerce coupon sale spans two stores and an unreliable network. The design choices that make fulfilment recoverable after payment.
Why Git Context Beats Memory Agents in Client Work
Why auditable git-tracked context beats agent memory you cannot version, review, or scope when many client repos run in parallel for paid work.
WooCommerce B2B: Plugin Sprawl vs Owned Integration
WooCommerce B2B starts with plugins, but role pricing, VAT display, account approval, and caching still demand an integration layer you own.
WooCommerce Product Import: CSV, WP All Import, or Manual?
WooCommerce product import succeeds when the tool matches the data shape. Choose native CSV, WP All Import, or manual entry without corrupting custom meta.
Closed B2B WooCommerce: Four Architectural Decisions
A closed B2B WooCommerce store needs explicit decisions about access, product pages, ERP availability, and account approval. Plugins cannot make them for you.
WordPress Background Jobs Need a Lock and Persistent State
Why long-running WordPress jobs need an atomic start lock, durable run state with a run ID, and recovery that survives worker crashes without duplicate imports.