Notes & Nodes
Fragrance and Code, Simply Put
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AI Built the UI. Now Try Changing It.
12 min read
A polished screen is easy to generate. Changing it exposes the decisions underneath. Why I built a pattern-driven frontend system with reusable components, composition rules, and context for coding agents.
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AI Agents for WordPress: What Helps and What Still Fails
8 min read
A practical look at how AI agents inspect, change, and test WordPress—and why skills and MCP still need real evidence.
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Preparing an Established Freemium Plugin for Modern WordPress.org Review
14 min read
A practical guide to modern plugin review, legacy compatibility, and the decisions AI coding assistants cannot safely make alone.
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Support Taught Me Product Engineering Before I Knew the Word
3 min read
How years in WordPress support shaped my product judgment, and what changed when I took on broader responsibility for building products.
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My VS Code Setup for WordPress and PHP, So It Stops Feeling Clunky
6 min read
A one-time Intelephense + stubs setup that gives WordPress and PHP IntelliSense across projects, plus real core files for Go to Definition.
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