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WordPress as a Runtime, Not Just a CMS
So, sure: WordPress is a CMS. I think it’s sometimes the answer given as a defense against the cynical question: “What’s WordPress still good for these days?” It’s a pretty great CMS, honestly. But what if we don’t focus on the CMS aspect so much. I think there are more imaginative ways to think about…
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Airtable things
Since the stuff I’m building these days has similarities to some of the things Airtable does, I figured why not build a version of the request queue I’ve built with PeakZebra, only with Airtable. TLDR: Throw in all the AI you want, once you’re past just storing everything in a single sheet, it’s pretty easy…
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Headless WordPress and why it matters
You know there’s headless WordPress, but may not be clear on how you’d make it happen. Or, more importantly, why you’d make it happen. What is headless WordPress? Let’s start with a quick rundown of what makes a WordPress site headless, why the naming in this case is exactly backwards, and just generally get ourselves…
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Structuring Code for Cursor and Other AI Tools
I think this is a post that’s going to evolve over time. That’s partly because I don’t yet–as I’m starting this–understand what I’m talking about. But the thinking here is that while most of the talk of the tubes has been about whether AI can code the way we do, I think the biggest present-day…
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AI Coding and Context
It’s clear that the way to get code “as if you’d coded it yourself” is to include your coding in the context that your LLM is using. Cursor, which I’ve been experimenting with of late, gives you several layers of potential customized context, and I finally found a few minutes to explore how this works.…
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Salute Your Cursor AI Overlords
I’m not sure yet, but I’m pretty close to sure that AI can’t do anything genuinely complicated when it comes to writing code. Or, more accurately, it’s happy to do immensely complicated code creation, but most of the complex stuff doesn’t work and is more trouble than it’s worth to fix. But a recent return…
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Client variation management
A key capability PeakZebra needs to develop moving forward is something that, strangely, doesn’t quite exist in WordPress. The capability: completely manage revision control across entire sites (that is, anything at all that changes on a site) and be able to scale to do it across a large number of sites (several thousand, say). At…
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The Launch List
I continue to chew through a lot of time making sure that PeakZebra, as a service, works. That it does what it’s supposed to do. But I’ve come to realize that one of my major challenges as a founder is training myself not to keep moving the “finished and ready for launch” goalposts. In particular,…
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The WordPress Version Control Divide
I was checking out a podcast video by Brian Coords when I hit upon an exchange that both outlined the difference between a developer/workflow-based approach and a more traditional WordPress approach to managing changes on websites. What I love about this conversation is that both interlocutors are obviously not only smart, but smart about WordPress.…
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Another Side of WordPress SaaS
One thing about the strategy where you hedge your WordPress bets by offering your wares as a SaaS built on WordPress is that it opens up the question of what’s in your SaaS. Once you’ve created a setup where your SaaS customers are interacting with your WordPress server, a potential next step is to incorporate…
