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The Current Site Versioning Plan
I was thinking about my current plan for keeping track of lots of slightly variant iterations of a baseline WordPress site blueprint, and it hit me. Duh. Disk space doesn’t cost much. You can rack up dozens of terabytes of storage without maxing out your credit card. Indeed, this is almost the definition of what…
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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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A Real-World Example of Avoiding Unneeded Prelaunch Dev
You hear a lot of blather about what the “minimal” in Minimal Viable Product means. And YCombinator has made an industry out of reminding people to launch before they think they’re ready. The trick of course is figuring out where this does and doesn’t apply without kicking the fledgling from the nest while the poor…
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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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What WordPress Should Be
As I was writing this, Joost de Valk posted a blog piece that points out three key areas of weakness that confront WordPress and rightly points out that we had better face these concerns head on and clear eyed. We need as a community to have the discussions that lead WordPress by developing a vision…
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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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Slots to Slotfill, Callbacks to Call
So, one key challenge to tackle is managing changes to individual PeakZebra deployments without creating variants that can’t be merged back together. My initial thought was the WordPress slotfill capability, probably because I was aware of it but didn’t know all that much about it. I did a little poking around, enough to realize that…
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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…
