Writing on AI, learning, and the web
These are the notes I keep while doing the work: migrations off page builders, editorial CMS rebuilds, the technical-SEO fixes that actually move rankings, and plain-language explainers for the parts of WordPress that trip people up. Some posts are written for developers; others are for the person who just inherited a site they did not build. I write them the way I would explain a problem to a neighbour who asked, without jargon for its own sake and without pretending a hard thing is easy. If something here helps you fix your own site, that is the point.
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Behind the scenes: two AI-assisted news sites, and the fact-checker that failed 28 times before it ran once
The rulebook I wrote before I built the sites said no 141 times in about two hours. Mining Dispatch and Hauler Daily…
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The feeling of learning is not learning
A learner can produce fluent, correct work with AI and come away no smarter, while feeling like mastery. Chapter three of Learning…
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After the review, the harder problem
The second post in the AI-review series. Once an audit hands you a list of findings, the way you prompt the fix…
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Behind the scenes: a second free WordPress block theme, and a website so people can find them
Masthead joins Quillwork on WordPress.org, my second free WordPress block theme there, plus a showcase site, two redesigns, and newsletter number nine.
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Behind the scenes: my accessibility checker was wrong three times before it was right
My new accessibility checker flagged every control on this site as broken. It was wrong three times before it was right, and…
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Newsroom WordPress migration: how to hit a hard date
News migrations miss hard dates for three reasons that are all visible during scoping. Here are the checkpoints that catch them while…
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The Cloudflare features almost no school uses (and probably should)
Five Cloudflare features most districts already have access to and rarely switch on: Snippets, Argo Smart Routing, Cache Reserve, Waiting Room, and…
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How to keep WordPress publishing sustainable for the next decade
The engine underneath is good enough to build the next decade on. The dashboard we all learned on is the part showing…
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Drupal to WordPress: the two things you can’t afford to break
I helped move Canada’s Parliament newspaper off Drupal in 2011. Here is what survives that move, what gets rebuilt, and the two…
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