The Sphere
July 19, 2026
Earth is dying now. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins the war that comes for it, then votes on what to do with being safe.
Category: Technology (Page 6)
Artificial IntelligenceDo What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
July 19, 2026
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.
BusinessWhy You Don’t Put All Your Eggs in AI
July 16, 2026
In finance, the first rule is diversification. The same rule applies to technology, and most companies are breaking it by betting everything on AI. Here is the case for spreading the risk.
Artificial IntelligenceAI Is a Writing Assistant, Not a Writer: How to Use It Right
July 15, 2026
AI is not a writer. It is a digital assistant you direct, skilled at some tasks and weak at others. Here is how a working ghostwriter uses it, where it earns its place, and the reservations that keep it on…
Artificial IntelligenceHow Do You Stop an AI From Arguing With You?
July 15, 2026
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok all swung from agreeing with everything to arguing with users in about a year. The fix is the same on every platform: a disagreement protocol in your standing instructions, a fresh chat when a conversation…
Book MarketingCore Web Vitals: The Three Numbers That Measure How Your Website Feels
July 14, 2026
Google's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…
CybersecurityWordPress Security Is a Posture, Not a Plugin
July 13, 2026
Every article in this series was secretly about security. The capstone: why the green checkmark is a component and not a defense, what a working posture looks like in practice, and the five questions no product can answer.
CybersecurityThe Supply Chain Is the Attack Surface
July 13, 2026
The attack that reached my site did not come at it. It came through it, riding a trusted update channel. Why supply chain attacks scale, why they extend to hardware, and how to manage a chain you cannot eliminate.
BusinessThe Single Maintainer Problem: Who Keeps Your Software Alive?
July 13, 2026
Before installing any software, ask how many people keep it alive. The number is public, takes five minutes to find, and predicts more grief than any feature list. The story of an excellent theme with a bus factor of one.
BusinessThe Plugin Diet: Trimming WordPress Without Losing Muscle
July 13, 2026
Plugins are generally in better shape than themes, but they grow sideways: the tool you installed for one job quietly becomes a platform doing fifteen. An afternoon audit puts the stack back on a diet.
BusinessDivorcing Your Page Builder: What It Cost Me to Leave
July 13, 2026
I have left two page builders: one because it was hurting my site, one while genuinely admiring it. Both exits cost the same, because the price was never about quality. It was about depth of embedding.
BusinessWhy So Many WordPress Themes Are Frankenstein Monsters
July 13, 2026
I opened up the theme running my website and found dead code, three settings systems, and an animation for an element that never existed. Here is why commercial themes end up this way and what you can actually do about…