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Anthropic announced the majority of their code is now written by Claude Code. Their engineers are not writers anymore — they are architects. Here is the three-step playbook for making the same shift.
60% of executives plan to lay off employees who won't use AI. 48% call AI adoption a massive disappointment. Those two stats are not unrelated.
Cursor 3 just launched agent fleets. Adoption is at an all-time high. So why does nearly three-quarters of the dev world not trust what AI actually ships to production?
A practical framework for rolling out AI across an entire org — not just the eng team. Includes the exact adoption sequencing I use across multiple companies.
The reporting-side system I use to pull GitHub, Asana, Linear, Jira, Slack, and email activity into project-level decks plus an executive rollup every week.
A practical breakdown of the Cursor skills I use to automate bugfix execution: sourcing tickets, shipping scoped fixes, writing PR context, and syncing review state.
Discover your leadership operating system—how you make decisions, communicate, handle conflict, and work with teams. Understand your style to lead more effectively.
Are you ready for SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, or other compliance requirements? Get a readiness assessment with gap analysis and action plan.
When should you hire full-time, use contractors, outsource, or wait? Get clarity on the right team scaling strategy for your situation.
Too many vendors, too little time. Get a structured framework to evaluate and choose the right vendor for your needs. Save time and reduce risk.
Assess your technical debt level and get a prioritized plan to pay it down before it becomes a crisis. Understand the true cost of your codebase.
Should you build AI features internally, buy AI tools, wait and observe, or take a hybrid approach? Get an executive-level assessment for your AI strategy.
Cascade company goals into departmental rocks (top-down) or analyze if existing rocks align with your company goal (bottom-up). Based on EOS framework.
Identify all stakeholders before making decisions. Get a stakeholder map with recommended consultation approaches to avoid execution failures.
Generate adaptive interview questions designed to surface genuine competence, judgment, and experience. Analyzes human signal, not AI usage.
With AI coding agents, the cost of CMS abstraction has never been higher. Determine if you need a CMS or if content-as-code is the better path for your team.
Full-time CTO, fractional CTO, or senior IC? This framework helps founders and CEOs make the right technical leadership decision for their company stage and needs.
Already overbuilt? Get a step-by-step plan to trim your scope down to a focused MVP that delivers value faster. Stop the bleeding and get to market.
Are you building an MVP or overengineering? This tool helps product teams identify scope creep early and focus on features that actually matter for launch.
Stop guessing whether to build or buy. This proven framework helps CTOs and executives make data-driven decisions that save time, money, and engineering resources.
How AI is reshaping modern engineering leadership, accelerating decision-making, and redefining how teams design, build, and ship software.
A grounded explanation of vibe-coded software—how modern AI-native tools enable fast, fluid, high-quality software creation without requiring deep focus or hours of manual coding.
A clear, practical breakdown of how fractional CTOs differ from consultants—and how founders can choose the right model for their stage and risk profile.
A practical, modern framework for building engineering teams that consistently deliver high velocity, high quality, and low drama.
A breakdown of modern AI-augmented engineering workflows—and how teams can ship faster with less cognitive load while maintaining quality.
A blueprint for scaling an engineering team quickly while preserving culture, velocity, decision-making quality, and product stability.
A practical decision-making framework for engineering leaders who need to move fast without creating long-term architectural pain.
A perspective shift on tech debt—why teams misuse the term and how to distinguish real strategic debt from simple code dissatisfaction.
Why small engineering teams consistently outperform large ones—and how to structure them for clarity, ownership, and execution.
A practical definition of engineering culture—and the behaviors that separate healthy, high-output teams from dysfunctional ones.
Several years ago, I wrote what was and still is one of my most popular blogs to date. It's an article where I provided some tips and tricks on finding infected WordPress files on your server.
Easily export a list of all orders and their associated coupon usage for Magento orders using SQL
Use the wpcli and system cron to automatically unpublish a blog article or page at a specific time.
It's all about UptimeRobot When managing multiple WHM servers with hundreds of cPanel accounts, sometimes you need a quick and easy way to monitor your sites uptime.
I've been doing a lot of bash scripting with WordPress, especially with WP CLI. Here are some snippets I found useful.
When launching an existing Magento store, one of the last things you will need to do is migrate all of the current Customers and Orders from the production site, into development, prior to actually going live.
Have you ever found yourself needing to speed up apache or mysql? Here's a quick writeup on some very useful tools when you first setup Apache and MySQL.
Learn how to remove Visual Composer from your WordPress post excerpts using easy to drop in php functions which can be called anywhere in your site
I searched low and high to figure out how to create options pages in the updated version of Advanced Custom Fields (version 5 of ACF)
One of the best and most widely used form building plugins for WordPress is gravity forms. If you've ever needed to allow users to upload files to your site, but you want to make sure those files are not harmful, the following tutorial will help you with just that!
Using App::before You might be able to take advantage of the App::before() block in the app/filters.php file.
Easily optimize all PNG and JPG images within your website for Google Page Speed improvements.
When building out a custom theme, one of the first things most developers will need in their set of tools and resources to write efficient code will be jQuery.
Easily deploy a templated robots.txt file to all accounts within your WHM / cPanel server.
Here's a great snippet for pulling a users Instagram Feed and doing whatever you want with it.
If you've ever found yourself with a hacked WordPress site, one of the hardest things to do is scan your entire server and find all of the infected files.
I did this simple hack on a private WordPress Multisite blog, to stop it sending me emails every time I created a new blog.
Here's a neat little trick that will get you the latest post ID from WordPress.
If you have setup a Backup to run in WHM -> Backup -> Backup Configuration and would like to force it to run immediately instead of waiting for the backup schedule you can do so through SSH.
Here's a compiled list for a lot of GREAT deals for Black Friday. If you're a developer, or even a designer there's definitely something here for you!
Recently while coding out an e-blast I came across an issue where the layout rendered perfectly on desktop and mobile devices ( it was a responsive theme ) with any email client, except gmail on both iOS as well as Android.
If you've ever had to deal with a hack before, you know how frustrating it can be figuring out what files were infected. This is a great method for finding all the PHP and JavaScript files that have been touched within the last couple of weeks.
Determine which magento patches have been installed on your site.
Often you may want to change all text between certain tags within Sublime Text, remove all types of certain tags, or change all of one HTML Tag to another. This is very often the case in XML documents or if you are removing all comments.
Today I faced a pretty daunting task, I needed to check around 2,600 rows of checkboxes across 4 different sites, each that had 3 different options.
With the recent Ghost Vulnerability out in the wild, I was tasked with patching our development servers and needed to reboot them in the middle of the night.
You might find yourself needing to dynamically update your WordPress post content with the description of a YouTube video.
I was working on a client who's site I was working on where I was required to capture, and hold onto an affiliate tracking variable and value throughout the entire session of a user while browsing their website.
Did you know that by default, WordPress smushes your JPG images down to 60% quality after your upload them?
If you've ever needed to create custom image sizes for your WordPress installation, this function will come in very handy.
When developing sites for clients, sometimes you want the ability to prevent the end user from being able to edit/access the theme source code from the admin panel "Appearance -> Editor" area.
If you ever want to include Social Media sharing links, like the ones found here on my blog, without wasting resources using some bloated plugin, you can use this code.
You may want to force users to login in order to view a page within your WordPress site.
Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where you have pages / posts that don't have a featured image set but you want to pull an image to use on a listings page or some other page in your WordPress theme.
Explore the power of interactive blog content with dynamic charts, sliders, calculators, and data visualizations that engage readers and make complex information accessible.
