Insights, innovations and inspiration from the digital world
April 20, 2026
Everyone's Building an App Now. It's the New Starting a Podcast.
Everyone's building apps with AI now, just like everyone started a podcast in 2020. The tools got easy. The hard part stayed hard.
Insights & Ideas
April 19, 2026
20 WordPress Plugins You Can Replace With a Few Lines of PHP
47 plugins on a client site, 23 needing updates. Here are 20 you can delete today and replace with a few lines of PHP that do the exact same thing.
Insights & Ideas
April 18, 2026
Google Just Deleted 292 Million Reviews. Here's What It Means for Your Business in 2026.
Google just published its latest Trust & Safety numbers. Here's the honest breakdown and what small businesses should do about it in 2026.
SEO
April 17, 2026
AI Bots Are Crawling Your Website to Death. Here's How to Stop Them.
AI crawlers are hammering websites with aggressive traffic. Here is how to detect them, block them, and protect your server before it is too late.
Insights & Ideas
April 17, 2026
Your SaaS Stack Is Bleeding You Dry. Here's What I Self-Host Instead.
I was spending over $400/month on SaaS tools I barely used. Here is the self-hosted stack that replaced most of them for under $50/month.
Insights & Ideas
April 16, 2026
Your Website Is One Compromised npm Package Away From Disaster
Axios, one of the most-used npm packages on the planet, was just backdoored. Here's what that means for the $10K website running 200 packages nobody audits.
Insights & Ideas
April 14, 2026
The AI Tools That Actually Run My One-Person Agency
The AI tools I actually use daily to run a one-person web development and SEO agency. No listicle nonsense, just what works and what doesn't.
Behind the Business
April 14, 2026
Why I Stopped Using WordPress After 6 Years. It's Not About the Tech.
After 6 years and 100+ client sites on WordPress, I walked away. The Mullenweg drama, ignored community problems, and misplaced priorities broke my trust.
Behind the Business
April 11, 2026
GEO Is the New Snake Oil (Or Is It?)
GEO is the hottest new SEO acronym. Agencies are charging thousands for it. But the data on whether it works is messy, contradictory, and worth examining.
SEO
April 11, 2026
I Audited 17 Websites for Toxic Backlinks. The Spam Networks I Found Were Terrifying.
After auditing 17 websites for toxic backlinks across 4 industries, I found the same spam networks targeting everyone. Here's what the networks look like and why one case scared me.