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The Anti-AI Crowd Is Going to Get Left Behind — And That’s On You

Nick — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:56:40 +0000

There’s a meeting happening right now at some company — maybe yours — where someone is saying “we can’t do this because part of our user base is anti-AI.” And everyone nods. Notes get taken. The feature gets shelved. And it gets called playing it safe. It’s not safe. It’s surrender. What “Anti-AI Users” Actually […]

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We’re Doing AI Wrong

Nick — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:08:49 +0000

Every blog post. Every plugin page. Every WordCamp talk. The entire WordPress world is singing the same song about AI: build faster, automate more, save time, be more productive. We looked at the most transformative technology of our lives and said, “You know what? Workflows.” We sound like we’re selling printer toner. AI doesn’t just […]

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The DoorDash Theory of Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins

Nick — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:33:40 +0000

There’s a sandwich shop two blocks from my house. I have bread — the fancy kind, with the seeds — cheese, meat, everything I need to make a sandwich just as good as theirs. I DoorDash their sandwich anyway. That one beautiful, lazy fact is why premium WordPress themes and plugins aren’t just going to […]

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Nobody Rips Out the Plumbing

Nick — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:34:42 +0000

I spend 8+ hours a day building with AI. Claude, Cursor, Telex — I’m in it. I love these tools. I also love WordPress. And I’m tired of people telling me I have to pick one. Here’s what nobody in the “AI will kill WordPress” crowd seems to understand: I have never once considered replacing […]

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Your Second Brain Will Outlive Your Notes App

Nick — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:19:57 +0000

Why I’m betting my knowledge on a 20-year-old “blogging platform” I’ve watched people lose years of their lives to note-taking apps. Not lose as in “wasted time taking notes.” Lose as in: the app shut down, the sync broke, the company pivoted, the export was corrupted — and thousands of hours of carefully cultivated knowledge […]

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The Intent Layer: Reimagining WordPress Navigation for the AI Era

Nick — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:17:38 +0000

WordPress powers 43% of the web. Its admin interface powers exactly none of the future. We’re still clicking through menus designed in 2004. Posts. Pages. Appearance. Plugins. Settings. A taxonomy of system objects when what we actually have are human intentions: I want to write something. I want my site to look better. I want […]

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I Dug Through 6,162 WordPress Plugins From 2025. Let’s Talk About What’s Missing—And Why 2026 Could Be Different

Nick — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:40:27 +0000

We’ve got the volume. We’ve got the tools. Now we need the audacity. I went through every single plugin added to WordPress.org in 2025. All 6,162 of them. Multiple passes. Categorized, analyzed, hunted for patterns. Let me be clear: I didn’t do this manually. That would be insane. Claude did the heavy lifting—running queries, counting […]

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The Separation Made Sense—Until It Didn’t

Nick — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:04:48 +0000

WordPress’s theme-for-design, plugin-for-functionality split was genuinely smart architecture. It protected users from losing everything when they wanted a fresh look. It created clear lanes for developers. It worked. But “worked” is past tense, and here’s why. The User Experience Gap When someone opens the block inserter wanting a contact form, they don’t think “I need […]

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The Long History of “Real Programmers”

Nick — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:45:03 +0000

There’s a growing chorus of voices warning about AI-assisted “vibe coding”—the idea that letting AI help write code creates a false sense of competence. Critics argue that AI-generated code might look impressive at first glance, but it lacks the deep understanding that comes from learning the fundamentals. Their prescription: forget the shortcuts, go back to […]

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Why I Built Ask Seraphina

Nick — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:44:29 +0000

It started at 2am with a dog and a nail A few nights ago, I thought my dog was going to die. Sassi—a one-year-old Cavalier who eats everything she shouldn’t—had swallowed something during some construction work at my house. The x-ray showed something in her stomach. The vet said wait and see. Come back in […]

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