Why I folded my free tool into the agency site
Plugin Risk Score had its own domain for a while. Moving it onto the agency site was the right call — and the reasoning applies to most free tools.
Writing on building, shipping, and the odd tangent.
Notes from running a small WordPress agency — the tools I build to make it saner, and the occasional detour into weightlifting or a joke shop that sells nothing.
I made my SaaS self-hostable. My laptop had been lying to me.
Stripping three vendor dependencies out of SendTidings was the easy part. The interesting bugs only turned up when I stopped testing on the one machine where everything already worked.
Why I swapped my MacBook for a Mac mini
Moving from an M1 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM to an M4 Pro Mac mini with 24GB — for local AI, long agent sessions, and a machine that never sleeps.
Lifting Times is back
I've rebuilt and relaunched Lifting Times, the Olympic weightlifting magazine I founded in 2015 — here's what's new and why it still matters to me.
I built a shop that sells nothing
LeerHaus is a satirical luxury shop that sells real products containing nothing — an excuse to try FluentCart, a new WooCommerce alternative.
I run a WordPress agency. I rebuilt our site without it.
Why a brochure site doesn't need a database on every page load, and what I reached for instead of WordPress.
How to tell if a WordPress plugin is safe to install
A practical checklist for vetting WordPress plugins before you install them, and the warning signs that should make you walk away.
Where people quit a quote form
Two recent Quotify updates — a template library and conditional logic — aimed at the exact moments people give up.
Notes on building SendTidings
Why I built a client reporting tool, and what I learned shipping it alongside agency work.
Hello World (Again)
The first post. A bit about what I'm building and why.