2026
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Nineteen Years, Four Domains, and a New Front Page
Nov 11
Nineteen years, four domains, more hosts than I care to count, and now a newspaper-style redesign. A look back at the old coats of paint, how the new one was built, and why this blog now runs on Kubernetes.
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Shipping with Spacefast
Nov 10
I’ve been shipping real work on Spacefast since August — a docs site for WordPress core, reports for customers, even live checklists. Here’s how I use it, rough edges and all.
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The Upfront Investment That Saves 10,000 Hours
Mar 11
There’s a pattern in tech where people mock the setup cost of automation without accounting for the return. I spent a day building a Grunt-based WordPress bootstrapper in 2013. Fortune 500 companies are still running code built on that foundation today.
2025
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WordPress Infrastructure in 2025: Time for a Modern Approach
Aug 27
After 8 years away from WordPress, returning to WordCamp US revealed a stale hosting ecosystem. Here’s why I built Displace CLI to bring modern Kubernetes infrastructure to WordPress developers.
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Blogs and NUCs and Caching, Oh My!
Apr 29
A year ago, I migrated my site to a self-hosted NUC cluster, defying industry skepticism about home hosting. Using a WordPress stack with Varnish and Cloudflare, I optimized performance and security, achieving over 30% traffic caching.
2024
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WordPress Drama: Crossfire
Oct 15
Automattic faces a cease-and-desist letter over alleged trademark violations concerning WP Fusion Lite. But it really does look like their use could be classified as “fair use.” If not, any WordPress site using the .org repo is also in violation …
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WordPress: The Drama Continues
Oct 14
The WordPress.org team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine, raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so? It’s complicated, but likely yes.
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WordPress Drama: From the Sidelines
Sept 26
Yeah … the inside track of WordPress is a mess right now. I’m sure we all have opinions, so I figured I should log mine in as well.
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WordPress, Hosts, and Hosting
Sept 23
After nearly a decade out of WordPress, I visited WordCamp US and met with several hosts. TLDR: the state of WordPress hosting is stale.
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The Great WordPress Migration
Apr 23
In 2024 I finally migrated my WordPress blog (among other projects) from the cloud to a self-hosted Linux machine in my home office. All without exposing my private network to the world! Come join me on this journey as I explain my approach to owning my work and my own network.