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Field notes.

Notes from the watch: WordPress, Laravel, and the quiet craft of keeping websites online.

July 12, 2026 · 4 min

Your next SaaS customer might not be human→

Autonomous AI agents are starting to evaluate, sign up for, and pay for software on their own. What it means to build a product that machines can buy.

July 11, 2026 · 3 min

AI wrote the code. Who maintains it?→

AI-generated sites and plugins are arriving in our maintenance queue. The code works, mostly. The real question is what happens in month six.

July 8, 2026 · 3 min

When a site outgrows WordPress→

WordPress is the right answer more often than developers admit, until it isn't. The honest signals that a project has become an application wearing a CMS costume.

July 7, 2026 · 3 min

Your next customer might ask an AI first→

More buying decisions start as a question to an assistant instead of a search. What that shift actually means for your website, minus the panic.

July 3, 2026 · 3 min

Where AI actually helps in a web project (and where it doesn't)→

We use AI every day and remain a founder-led studio on purpose. An honest map of where the tools genuinely earn their keep, and where craft still decides.

June 30, 2026 · 3 min

Your site went down at 2am. Who noticed?→

Most downtime isn't dramatic. It's quiet, off-hours, and discovered by the worst possible person: a customer. On monitoring, and why "it seems fine" is not a strategy.

June 18, 2026 · 2 min

The case for boring updates→

The most valuable WordPress maintenance work is the kind nobody notices. Here's why a dull, weekly update routine beats heroic firefighting every time.