WordPress Development
Before WordPress: how a 2002 author platform ran for sixteen years
A 2002 author-publishing platform that ran 16 years with zero ongoing maintenance. Static-site generation years before the pattern…
Read the case studyEdTech and learning with AI: Technology for people who can’t afford for it to break.
Learning platforms, publishing systems, and the AI around them: technology your team can understand, audit, and keep running long after I’m gone. Built by one senior technologist, not an agency layer, currently completing an MA in Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University.
Learning platforms, editorial platforms for publishers, speaking, AI operations, accessibility, and technical SEO.
“Working with him never feels transactional. It feels like building something together.”
Client organizations
Work delivered for
Selected work
Evidence, not adjectives.
Publishing Infrastructure
Canada.com wasn’t a newsroom: why its WordPress VIP portal needed a different architecture
I worked on the canada.com portal architecture on WordPress VIP in 2011–2012, aggregating coverage from eleven Postmedia papers…
Read the case studySite Maintenance
128,393 views in a niche nobody browses: the finish line on YouTube
A defect-troubleshooting video for industrial wood coatings has no business pulling 28,722 views. Except that one of mine…
Read the case studyWho I work with
Three kinds of work, one standard.
Education
Learning platforms and AI
Learning platforms for colleges, universities and the teams behind them, and honest help deciding where AI actually belongs in teaching and learning.
Learning platformsPublishing
Editorial platforms
Editorial CMS work for newsrooms and membership publishers where downtime is a headline: migrations, performance that holds, and the governance that keeps AI inside the workflow accountable.
PublishersSpeaking
Talks on learning with AI
Conference and campus talks on learning and working with AI, from someone who builds these systems and is studying how people learn with them.
SpeakingWhy one developer, not an agency
The depth is the difference.
- Online before the first browser war ended.Web since 1996, WordPress since 2007. The depth shows in the architecture, not the pitch deck.
- Dozens of plugins built and released.Five on WordPress.org, maintained and peer-reviewed.
- MA candidate, Learning and Technology, Royal Roads.Learning-and-technology research embedded in practice, not kept separate from it.
- Government of Canada standards.WCAG, bilingual, accessibility: the compliance bar most agencies outsource.
- AIOS, my own AI-operations layer.Routing, cost attribution, and an audit trail across every AI task, built for my practice first and adapted for clients.
Accessibility and AI access
Built so people don’t get locked out.
Accessibility here is a precondition, not a phase at the end of a project. Every build meets WCAG 2.2 AA and AODA, and I test with a screen reader rather than trusting a scanner’s score. That part I have been doing for years.
The newer question is who gets access to AI. My MA research at Royal Roads is in learning and technology, and the thing I keep returning to is who gets left behind when these tools become the default way to learn and to work. Remote and rural communities are first in that line: thinner connections, less support, and software built for people who already have both. I am working toward that, not claiming it as a track record yet.
- Accessibility is a precondition.The stance behind the work, written down so you can hold me to it.
- A free deadline lookup.Canadian organizations can check the date their accessibility obligation lands, at no cost and with no signup.
- Access 2026, on library systems.Speaking on what an accessibility audit actually catches in the systems libraries run.
The newsletter
AI Learning, Keeping It Human.
A weekly, honest read on learning and working with AI, for people who want to keep the human in it. Every Thursday, the one thing that actually mattered that week, and what it means for how we teach and learn.
From the writing
Thinking out loud, in public.
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.…
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…
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…
Small business work
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