Writing
These are the notes I keep while doing the work: migrations off page builders, editorial CMS rebuilds, the technical-SEO fixes that actually move rankings, and plain-language explainers for the parts of WordPress that trip people up. Some posts are written for developers; others are for the person who just inherited a site they did not build. I write them the way I would explain a problem to a neighbour who asked, without jargon for its own sake and without pretending a hard thing is easy. If something here helps you fix your own site, that is the point.
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What AI actually is, for someone who has to teach with it
Look down the list you made last week. If you ran the exercise from chapter one, you learned something new with an…
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When does AI cross the line?
Every knowledge worker has felt the flicker by now. You hand a task to AI, it hands back something good, and a…
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Behind the scenes: the week my site kept telling small lies
A week of quiet gaps between what my site claimed and what it did: a podcast feed advertising missing audio, 230 archive…
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Moodle to WordPress: when the move is the upgrade, and when it isn’t
How to migrate from Moodle to a WordPress LMS stack with user mapping, course parity, enrollment continuity, and reporting validation.
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From layoff to consulting: what the first year costs you
Severance and Employment Insurance buy four to eight months. The first consulting payment usually lands in month six or seven. Here is…
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What high-availability WordPress actually requires (and how to tell if you need it)
A hosting quote with high availability on it can be insurance or upsell. Two numbers you can work out yourself decide which,…
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The bandaid and the wither: what dying coal towns taught me about the AI layoffs
The Cape Breton mines died for decades while everyone pretended otherwise. What coal towns, a letter from St Kilda, and “learn to…
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The two ways teaching with AI goes wrong
A few years ago someone asked me to teach a sales force to use AI. Not a room of engineers. People spread…
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Make a Living Giving It Away, fifteen years on
Fifteen years after WordCamp Toronto 2011, Make a Living Giving It Away goes to WordCamp US in Phoenix on August 18. What…
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