Apache Flink architecture for real-time WordPress data
How Apache Flink treats batch as a special case of streaming, and how to wire a WooCommerce store into a Flink pipeline for real-time recommendations instead of nightly cron jobs.
Category: Development
How local-first web development actually works
Why I went local-first after an app died on hotel Wi-Fi: keep data on the device with SQLite in the browser, sync in the background, and resolve conflicts without overwriting what users typed.
AI agent security and the four attack surfaces
The four places an autonomous agent gets attacked (prompt, tools, memory, and the planning loop) and how to lock down a WordPress and PHP backend with least privilege, schema validation, and reasoning logs.
Why supply chain data silos leave shelves empty
A fashion retailer updated a forecast on a Tuesday and the supply team saw it eleven days later, after the factory lead time had expired. Here is where that delay comes from and what integrated business planning changes about it.
Agentic AI optimization and the end of guess-the-bottleneck
Manual performance tuning is mostly hypothesis and hope. Agentic loops like pi-autoresearch take a metric and a budget, run the experiments themselves, and keep only the versions that measure better.
LLM engineering for WordPress developers, beyond the wrapper
Plugging in the OpenAI API is not engineering. Notes on what actually matters when you build LLM features on WordPress: token costs, attention limits, RAG over fine-tuning, and keeping a 30-second API call from taking down PHP-FPM.
WordPress 7.0 RTC: what hosts need to test by May 4th
WordPress 7.0 brings real-time collaboration, and it asks a lot of the database and object cache. The Core team wants host test data by May 4th, so here is what the suite checks and where hosts usually get bitten.
The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Search Visibility with Schema Markup
Discover how to enhance your website’s search engine performance using the power of schema markup. This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic microdata to advanced JSON-LD implementations. Learn why search engines love structured data and how you can use it to gain a competitive edge in search results starting right now for your business.
AI architect vs data scientist: what the job is now
The data science job has moved. Production AI in 2026 is mostly orchestration: async APIs, vector databases and cost per request. Here is what changes when you start working as an AI architect instead.
Scenario modelling when the noise beats the signal
Why scenario modelling is mostly about calibrated uncertainty rather than clean predictions, using an English local elections case study and a small PHP class for bootstrapping residuals.