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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.