Writing
Writing on AI, learning, and the web
Notes I keep while doing the work: learning with AI without the hype, editorial CMS rebuilds, the technical SEO that moves rankings, and plain-language explainers for the parts of WordPress that trip people up. Written the way I’d explain it to a neighbour who asked.
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The right question, asked in the wrong room
Four years in, higher education’s technology leaders have made “where does AI actually add value” their top priority. It’s the right question.…
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Behind the scenes: Cloudflare error 20083 and a feed parser that said nothing
Cloudflare refused my www redirect with error 20083, and a news feed parser dropped two of five feeds without an error. What…
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Course video in 2026: where to host it, and how to make sure every learner can watch
Video hosting is three decisions, not one. SEO/discovery, on-site conversion, and private delivery each want a different host. Here is how to…
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Who gets to say what done looks like
Two districts bought AI with almost nothing to go on, a state wrote rules, and a company wrote contracts. Underneath all of…
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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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Teaching the question
A two-year AI tutoring trial found students rarely messaged for help, and mostly sent bare answers when they did. Decades-old research on…
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